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COGNITIVE AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF SPATIAL REPRESENTATION
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American Association for Artificial Intelligence
1996 Spring Symposium Series
March 25 - 27, 1996
Stanford University
California
COGNITIVE AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF SPATIAL REPRESENTATION
Technological advances in multimedia, graphics, vision and speech
technology are driving research into new interfaces and retrieval
mechanisms based on spatial dialogues and queries. Recent years have
also seen an increase in interest in newer fields that depend heavily
on spatial representation, in particular, analogical/diagrammatic
reasoning, and multimodal interface design. Concurrently, cognitive
linguistics has concentrated much effort on semantic accounts of
spatial language, and the revival of the imagery debate has sharpened
the focus of research into human spatial cognition.
Despite its increasing importance, spatial representation has been
tackled as a subproblem of many different domains, which in turn has
led to a fragmentation of the overall research effort. This symposium
intends to meet the growing desire to integrate research into spatial
representation and reasoning by the artificial intelligence, cognitive
science and cognitive psychology communities. The goals of the
symposium are:
o to initiate an interdisciplinary dialogue to facilitate exchange of
ideas and cross-fertilization among researchers;
o review the current influence that research into spatial cognition
has on approaches to spatial representation in AI;
o develop a better appreciation of research into spatial representation
by identifying issues that span domain and discipline boundaries;
o stimulate the discussion of issues in the computational realization
of cognitive models of spatial representation.
Contributions are invited on the computational and cognitive modeling
of spatial representation in any problem domain, in particular, we are
keen to encourage contributions from researchers interested in spatial
aspects of: the acquisition, representation and processing of natural
language spatial expressions; mental and computational imagery;
diagrammatic reasoning; analogical reasoning and direct representations
of space; navigation and cognitive models of large scale space.
See
for further information.
contact Patrick Olivier (plo@aber.ac.uk) at the address below.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Tony Cohn (agc@scs.leeds.ac.uk), University of Leeds, UK.
Janice Glasgow (janice@qucis.queensu.ca), Queen's University, Canada.
Barbara Landau (blandau@orion.uci.edu), UC Irvine, USA.
Keiichi Nakata (kkn@aber.ac.uk), University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK.
Patrick Olivier (plo@aber.ac.uk), University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK.
Barbara Tversky (bt@psych.stanford.edu), Stanford University, USA.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Potential attendees should submit either (1) a full technical paper
(not exceeding 5000 words), or (2) a brief statement of interest
preferably a summary of an ongoing research effort (not exceeding 1000
words). Send five copies by October 31, 1995 to:
Patrick Olivier (plo@aber.ac.uk)
Centre for Intelligent Systems
Department of Computer Science
University of Wales
Aberystwyth
Dyfed, SY23 3DB, UK
Tel: +44 1970 622447
Fax: +44 1970 622455