Spatial Cognition IV, Reasoning, Action, Interaction

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

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.

• 3D
• Navigation
• algorithms
• cognition
• geographic information
• ontology
• optimization
• robot
• spatial cognition
• spatial diagrams
• spatial information processing
• spatial navigation
• spatial reasoning
• spatial representation
• spatial structure
• data structures

• 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

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