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Spatial Cognition VI. Learning, Reasoning, and Talking about Space

International Conference Spatial Cognition 2008, Freiburg, Germany, September 15-19, 2008. Proceedings

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Editors:
  1. Christian Freksa
  2. Nora S. Newcombe
  3. Peter Gärdenfors
  4. Stefan Wölfl

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5248)

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

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Cognition, Spatial Cognition 2008, held in Freiburg, Germany, in September 2008. The 27 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on spatial orientation, spatial navigation, spatial learning, maps and modalities, spatial communication, spatial language, similarity and abstraction, concepts and reference frames, as well as spatial modeling and spatial reasoning.

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Table of contents (30 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  3. Spatial Orientation

    1. Does Body Orientation Matter When Reasoning about Depicted or Described Scenes?

      • Marios N. Avraamides, Stephanie Pantelidou
      Pages 8-21

    2. Spatial Memory and Spatial Orientation

      • Jonathan W. Kelly, Timothy P. McNamara
      Pages 22-38

  4. Spatial Navigation

    1. Map-Based Spatial Navigation: A Cortical Column Model for Action Planning

      • Louis-Emmanuel Martinet, Jean-Baptiste Passot, Benjamin Fouque, Jean-Arcady Meyer, Angelo Arleo
      Pages 39-55

    2. Efficient Wayfinding in Hierarchically Regionalized Spatial Environments

      • Thomas Reineking, Christian Kohlhagen, Christoph Zetzsche
      Pages 56-70

    3. Analyzing Interactions between Navigation Strategies Using a Computational Model of Action Selection

      • Laurent Dollé, Mehdi Khamassi, Benoît Girard, Agnès Guillot, Ricardo Chavarriaga
      Pages 71-86

    4. A Minimalistic Model of Visually Guided Obstacle Avoidance and Path Selection Behavior

      • Lorenz Gerstmayr, Hanspeter A. Mallot, Jan M. Wiener
      Pages 87-103

  6. Maps and Modalities

    1. What Do Focus Maps Focus On?

      • Kai-Florian Richter, Denise Peters, Gregory Kuhnmünch, Falko Schmid
      Pages 154-170

    2. Locating Oneself on a Map in Relation to Person Qualities and Map Characteristics

      • Lynn S. Liben, Lauren J. Myers, Kim A. Kastens
      Pages 171-187

    3. Conflicting Cues from Vision and Touch Can Impair Spatial Task Performance: Speculations on the Role of Spatial Ability in Reconciling Frames of Reference

      • Madeleine Keehner
      Pages 188-201

  7. Spatial Communication

    1. Epistemic Actions in Science Education

      • Kim A. Kastens, Lynn S. Liben, Shruti Agrawal
      Pages 202-215

    2. An Influence Model for Reference Object Selection in Spatially Locative Phrases

      • Michael Barclay, Antony Galton
      Pages 216-232

  8. Spatial Language

    1. Tiered Models of Spatial Language Interpretation

      • Robert J. Ross
      Pages 233-249

    2. Perspective Use and Perspective Shift in Spatial Dialogue

      • Juliana Goschler, Elena Andonova, Robert J. Ross
      Pages 250-265
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