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Spatial Cognition IV, Reasoning, Action, Interaction

International Spatial Cognition 2004, Frauenchiemsee, Germany, October 11-13, 2004, Revised Selected Papers

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Editors:
  1. Christian Freksa

    1. SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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  2. Markus Knauff

    1. Center for Cognitive Science, Freiburg, Germany

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  3. Bernd Krieg-Brückner

    1. Universität Bremen and DFKI-Lab Bremen, Germany

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  4. Bernhard Nebel

    1. Institut für Informatik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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  5. Thomas Barkowsky

    1. SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, Universität Bremen, Germany

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 3343)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (27 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Route Directions, Wayfinding, and Spatial Behavior

    1. Finding the Way Inside: Linking Architectural Design Analysis and Cognitive Processes

      • Christoph Hölscher, Tobias Meilinger, Georg Vrachliotis, Martin Brösamle, Markus Knauff
      Pages 1-23

    2. Modelling Wayfinding in Public Transport: Network Space and Scene Space

      • Urs-Jakob Rüetschi, Sabine Timpf
      Pages 24-41

    3. Isovists as a Means to Predict Spatial Experience and Behavior

      • Jan M. Wiener, Gerald Franz
      Pages 42-57

    4. A Model for Context-Specific Route Directions

      • Kai-Florian Richter, Alexander Klippel
      Pages 58-78

    5. Investigation of Preference Between the Least-Angle Strategy and the Initial Segment Strategy for Route Selection in Unknown Environments

      • Hartwig H. Hochmair, Victoria Karlsson
      Pages 79-97

  3. Descriptions of Space – Prepositions and Reference

    1. Spatial Prepositions and Vague Quantifiers: Implementing the Functional Geometric Framework

      • Kenny R. Coventry, Angelo Cangelosi, Rohanna Rajapakse, Alison Bacon, Stephen Newstead, Dan Joyce et al.
      Pages 98-110

    2. Reference Frame Conflict in Assigning Direction to Space

      • Michele Burigo, Kenny Coventry
      Pages 111-123

    3. Identifying Objects on the Basis of Spatial Contrast: An Empirical Study

      • Thora Tenbrink
      Pages 124-146

    4. Cultural Differences of Spatial Descriptions in Tourist Guidebooks

      • Koshiro Suzuki, Yoshiki Wakabayashi
      Pages 147-164

  4. Mental Models, Diagrams, and Maps

    1. Reasoning About Consistency with Spatial Mental Models: Hidden and Obvious Indeterminacy in Spatial Descriptions

      • Georg Jahn, P. N. Johnson-Laird, Markus Knauff
      Pages 165-180

    2. Spatial Principles in Control of Focus in Reasoning with Mental Representations, Images, and Diagrams

      • Dominik Engel, Sven Bertel, Thomas Barkowsky
      Pages 181-203

    3. Perceptually Induced Distortions in Cognitive Maps

      • Alexander Klippel, Lothar Knuf, Bernhard Hommel, Christian Freksa
      Pages 204-213

    4. Characterizing Diagrams Produced by Individuals and Dyads

      • Julie Heiser, Barbara Tversky
      Pages 214-226

    5. Sketch Map Analysis Using GIS Buffer Operation

      • Kohei Okamoto, Kei-ichi Okunuki, Toshibumi Takai
      Pages 227-244

    6. Imagined Perspective–Changing Within and Across Novel Environments

      • Marios N. Avraamides, Jonathan W. Kelly
      Pages 245-258

    7. Thinking Through Diagrams: Discovery in Game Playing

      • Susan L. Epstein
      Pages 259-282

  5. Spatio-Temporal Representation and Reasoning

    1. The Finest of its Class: The Natural Point-Based Ternary Calculus \({\mathcal LR}\) for Qualitative Spatial Reasoning

      • Alexander Scivos, Bernhard Nebel
      Pages 283-303

    2. Exploiting Qualitative Spatial Neighborhoods in the Situation Calculus

      • Frank Dylla, Reinhard Moratz
      Pages 304-322

    3. Branching Allen

      • Marco Ragni, Stefan Wölfl
      Pages 323-343
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About this book

This is the fourth volume in a series of books dedicated to basic research in spatial cognition. Spatial cognition is a field that investigates the connection between the physical spatial world and the mental world. Philosophers and researchers have p- posed various views concerning the relation between the physical and the mental worlds: Plato considered pure concepts of thought as separate from their physical manifestations while Aristotle considered the physical and the mental realms as two aspects of the same substance. Descartes, a dualist, discussed the interaction between body and soul through an interface organ and thus introduced a functional view that presented a challenge for the natural sciences and the humanities. In modern psych- ogy, the relation between the physical and the cognitive space has been investigated using thorough experiments, and in artificial intelligence we have seen views as diverse as ‘problems can be solved on a representation of the world’ and ‘a representation of the world is not necessary. ’ Today’s spatial cognition work establishes a correspondence between the mental and the physical worlds by studying and exploiting their interaction; it investigates how mental space and spatial “reality” join together in understanding the world and in interacting with it. The physical and representational aspects are equally important in this work. Almost all topics of cognitive science manifest themselves in spatial cognition.

Editors and Affiliations

  • SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Christian Freksa

  • Center for Cognitive Science, Freiburg, Germany

    Markus Knauff

  • Universität Bremen and DFKI-Lab Bremen, Germany

    Bernd Krieg-Brückner

  • Institut für Informatik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Bernhard Nebel

  • SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, Universität Bremen, Germany

    Thomas Barkowsky

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Spatial Cognition IV, Reasoning, Action, Interaction

  • Book Subtitle: International Spatial Cognition 2004, Frauenchiemsee, Germany, October 11-13, 2004, Revised Selected Papers

  • Editors: Christian Freksa, Markus Knauff, Bernd Krieg-Brückner, Bernhard Nebel, Thomas Barkowsky

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b106616

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-25048-7Published: 01 March 2005

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-32255-9Published: 22 February 2005

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 519

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Data Structures, Computer Graphics, Simulation and Modeling, Earth Sciences, general

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