Spatial Cognition VI 2008: Freiburg, Germany

Christian Freksa, Nora S. Newcombe, Peter Gärdenfors, Stefan Wölfl (Eds.): Spatial Cognition VI. Learning, Reasoning, and Talking about Space, International Conference Spatial Cognition 2008, Freiburg, Germany, September 15-19, 2008. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5248 Springer 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-87600-7

Invited Talks

Heinrich H. Bülthoff, Jennifer L. Campos, Tobias Meilinger:
Virtual Reality as a Valuable Research Tool for Investigating Different Aspects of Spatial Cognition. 1-3
Laura A. Carlson:
On the "Whats" and "Hows" of "Where": The Role of Salience in Spatial Descriptions. 4-6
Dedre Gentner:
Learning about Space. 7

Marios N. Avraamides, Stephanie Pantelidou:
Does Body Orientation Matter When Reasoning about Depicted or Described Scenes?. 8-21
Jonathan W. Kelly, Timothy P. McNamara:
Spatial Memory and Spatial Orientation. 22-38

Louis-Emmanuel Martinet, Jean-Baptiste Passot, Benjamin Fouque, Jean-Arcady Meyer, Angelo Arleo:
Map-Based Spatial Navigation: A Cortical Column Model for Action Planning. 39-55
Thomas Reineking, Christian Kohlhagen, Christoph Zetzsche:
Efficient Wayfinding in Hierarchically Regionalized Spatial Environments. 56-70
Laurent Dollé, Mehdi Khamassi, Benoît Girard, Agnès Guillot, Ricardo Chavarriaga:
Analyzing Interactions between Navigation Strategies Using a Computational Model of Action Selection. 71-86
Lorenz Gerstmayr, Hanspeter A. Mallot, Jan Malte Wiener:
A Minimalistic Model of Visually Guided Obstacle Avoidance and Path Selection Behavior. 87-103

Rebecca Hurlebaus, Kai Basten, Hanspeter A. Mallot, Jan Malte Wiener:
Route Learning Strategies in a Virtual Cluttered Environment. 104-120
Nicholas A. Giudice, Jerome D. Tietz:
Learning with Virtual Verbal Displays: Effects of Interface Fidelity on Cognitive Map Development. 121-137
Drew Dara-Abrams:
Cognitive Surveying: A Framework for Mobile Data Collection, Analysis, and Visualization of Spatial Knowledge and Navigation Practices. 138-153

Kai-Florian Richter, Denise Peters, Gregory Kuhnmünch, Falko Schmid:
What Do Focus Maps Focus On?. 154-170
Lynn S. Liben, Lauren J. Myers, Kim A. Kastens:
Locating Oneself on a Map in Relation to Person Qualities and Map Characteristics. 171-187
Madeleine Keehner:
Conflicting Cues from Vision and Touch Can Impair Spatial Task Performance: Speculations on the Role of Spatial Ability in Reconciling Frames of Reference. 188-201

Kim A. Kastens, Lynn S. Liben, Shruti Agrawal:
Epistemic Actions in Science Education. 202-215
Michael Barclay, Antony Galton:
An Influence Model for Reference Object Selection in Spatially Locative Phrases. 216-232

Robert J. Ross:
Tiered Models of Spatial Language Interpretation. 233-249
Juliana Goschler, Elena Andonova, Robert J. Ross:
Perspective Use and Perspective Shift in Spatial Dialogue. 250-265
Joana Hois, Oliver Kutz:
Natural Language Meets Spatial Calculi. 266-282
Kate Lockwood, Andrew Lovett, Kenneth D. Forbus:
Automatic Classification of Containment and Support Spatial Relations in English and Dutch. 283-294

Konstantinos A. Nedas, Max J. Egenhofer:
Integral vs. Separable Attributes in Spatial Similarity Assessments. 295-310
Lutz Frommberger, Diedrich Wolter:
Spatial Abstraction: Aspectualization, Coarsening, and Conceptual Classification. 311-327

Martin Raubal:
Representing Concepts in Time. 328-343
Tobias Meilinger:
The Network of Reference Frames Theory: A Synthesis of Graphs and Cognitive Maps. 344-360
Peter Kiefer:
Spatially Constrained Grammars for Mobile Intention Recognition. 361-377
Andrew Lovett, Kate Lockwood, Kenneth D. Forbus:
Modeling Cross-Cultural Performance on the Visual Oddity Task. 378-393

Hannah M. Dee, Roberto Fraile, David C. Hogg, Anthony G. Cohn:
Modelling Scenes Using the Activity within Them. 394-408
Antony Galton:
Pareto-Optimality of Cognitively Preferred Polygonal Hulls for Dot Patterns. 409-425
Dominik Lücke, Till Mossakowski, Diedrich Wolter:
Qualitative Reasoning about Convex Relations. 426-440