Spatial Cognition III: Routes and Navigation, Human Memory and Learning, Spatial Representation and Spatial Learning

✍ Scribed by Barbara Tversky (auth.), Christian Freksa, Wilfried Brauer, Christopher Habel, Karl F. Wender (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 425
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2685 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 international participation.

✦ Table of Contents

Navigating by Mind and by Body....Pages 1-10
Pictorial Representations of Routes: Chunking Route Segments during Comprehension....Pages 11-33
Self-localization in Large-Scale Environments for the Bremen Autonomous Wheelchair....Pages 34-61
The Role of Geographical Slant in Virtual Environment Navigation....Pages 62-76
Granularity Transformations in Wayfinding....Pages 77-88
A Geometric Agent Following Route Instructions....Pages 89-111
Cognition Meets Le Corbusier — Cognitive Principles of Architectural Design....Pages 112-126
The Effect of Speed Changes on Route Learning in a Desktop Virtual Environment....Pages 127-142
Is It Possible to Learn and Transfer Spatial Information from Virtual to Real Worlds?....Pages 143-156
Acquisition of Cognitive Aspect Maps....Pages 157-173
How Are the Locations of Objects in the Environment Represented in Memory?....Pages 174-191
Priming in Spatial Memory: A Flow Model Approach....Pages 192-208
Context Effects in Memory for Routes....Pages 209-231
Towards an Architecture for Cognitive Vision Using Qualitative Spatio-temporal Representations and Abduction....Pages 232-248
How Similarity Shapes Diagrams....Pages 249-262
Spatial Knowledge Representation for Human-Robot Interaction....Pages 263-286
How Many Reference Frames?....Pages 287-304
Motion Shapes: Empirical Studies and Neural Modeling....Pages 305-320
Use of Reference Directions in Spatial Encoding....Pages 321-347
Reasoning about Cyclic Space: Axiomatic and Computational Aspects....Pages 348-371
Reasoning and the Visual-Impedance Hypothesis....Pages 372-384
Qualitative Spatial Reasoning about Relative Position....Pages 385-400
Interpretation of Intentional Behavior in Spatial Partonomies....Pages 401-414

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Applications in Geosciences; Data Structures; Simulation and Modeling; Document Preparation and Text Processing; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography