Spatial Cognition III

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-X

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2. Routes and Navigation

   1. Navigating by Mind and by Body

      • Barbara Tversky

      Pages 1-10

   2. Pictorial Representations of Routes: Chunking Route Segments during Comprehension

      • Alexander Klippel, Heike Tappe, Christopher Habel

      Pages 11-33

   3. Self-localization in Large-Scale Environments for the Bremen Autonomous Wheelchair

      • Axel Lankenau, Thomas Röfer, Bernd Krieg-Brückner

      Pages 34-61

   4. The Role of Geographical Slant in Virtual Environment Navigation

      • Sibylle D. Steck, Horst F. Mochnatzki, Hanspeter A. Mallot

      Pages 62-76

   5. Granularity Transformations in Wayfinding

      • Sabine Timpf, Werner Kuhn

      Pages 77-88

   6. A Geometric Agent Following Route Instructions

      • Ladina B. Tschander, Hedda R. Schmidtke, Carola Eschenbach, Christopher Habel, Lars Kulik

      Pages 89-111

   7. Cognition Meets Le Corbusier — Cognitive Principles of Architectural Design

      • Steffen Werner, Paul Long

      Pages 112-126

3. Human Memory and Learning

   1. The Effect of Speed Changes on Route Learning in a Desktop Virtual Environment

      • William S. Albert, Ian M. Thornton

      Pages 127-142

   2. Is It Possible to Learn and Transfer Spatial Information from Virtual to Real Worlds?

      • Doris Höll, Bernd Leplow, Robby Schönfeld, Maximilian Mehdorn

      Pages 143-156

   3. Acquisition of Cognitive Aspect Maps

      • Bernhard Hommel, Lothar Knuf

      Pages 157-173

   4. How Are the Locations of Objects in the Environment Represented in Memory?

      • Timothy P. McNamara

      Pages 174-191

   5. Priming in Spatial Memory: A Flow Model Approach

      • Karin Schweizer

      Pages 192-208

   6. Context Effects in Memory for Routes

      • Karl F. Wender, Daniel Haun, Björn Rasch, Matthias Blümke

      Pages 209-231

4. Spatial Representation

   1. Towards an Architecture for Cognitive Vision Using Qualitative Spatio-temporal Representations and Abduction

      • Anthony G. Cohn, Derek R. Magee, Aphrodite Galata, David C. Hogg, Shyamanta M. Hazarika

      Pages 232-248

   2. How Similarity Shapes Diagrams

      • Merideth Gattis

      Pages 249-262

   3. Spatial Knowledge Representation for Human-Robot Interaction

      • Reinhard Moratz, Thora Tenbrink, John Bateman, Kerstin Fischer

      Pages 263-286

   4. How Many Reference Frames?

      • Eric Pederson

      Pages 287-304

   5. Motion Shapes: Empirical Studies and Neural Modeling

      • Florian Röhrbein, Kerstin Schill, Volker Baier, Klaus Stein, Christoph Zetzsche, Wilfried Brauer

      Pages 305-320

   6. Use of Reference Directions in Spatial Encoding

      • Constanze Vorwerg

      Pages 321-347

Spatial cognition is an interdisciplinary research area involving artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, computational linguistics, geography, mathematics, biology, theoretical computer science, architecture, design, and philosophy of mind. As these different disciplines gain a deeper understanding of their fellow disciplines and their research approaches, they increasingly find ways to combine their insights and to conceive powerful mechanisms to analyze and synthesize cognitive systems. Spatial cognition has now reached a point where we can see how different pieces of the puzzle may fit together to form integrated systems of specialized cognitive components. The research triggers new quests for basic issues of cognition and sparks ideas for the development of technological applications that make use of spatial structures and spatial computation. Potential applications can be found in such diverse areas as autonomous robotics, geographic information systems, locati- based services, spatial task assistance, multi-agent communication, to name but a few. This third volume on Spatial Cognition marks the final phase of the German Spatial Cognition Priority Program. It augments the results presented in the two precursor volumes published in 1998 and 2000, respectively. The interdisciplinary 1 research program was established by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in 1996 and terminated after six years, the maximum duration of DFG priority programs. The Spatial Cognition Priority Program consists of 17 research projects at 13 research institutions throughout Germany. Besides carrying out research in individual projects and joint research between projects, the program organized ‘topical colloquia’ and annual plenary colloquia, largely with internationalparticipation.

• Navigation
• cognition
• geographic information
• geographic maps
• knowledge representation
• learning
• robot
• spatial cognition
• spatial diagrams
• spatial information processing
• spatial navigation
• spatial representation
• spatial structure
• virtual reality
• wayfinding
• data structures

• FB 3 - Mathematik und Informatik, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

  Christian Freksa

• Fakultät für Informatik, Technishe Universität München, Garching bei München, Germany

  Wilfried Brauer

• Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

  Christopher Habel

• FB 1 - Psychologie, Universität Trier, Trier, Germany

  Karl F. Wender

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