8.1746, Confs: Spatial Cognition

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Subject: 8.1746, Confs: Spatial Cognition

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Date:  Tue, 2 Dec 97 11:30:03 PST
From:  hegarty at condor.psych.ucsb.edu (Mary Hegarty)
Subject:  Spatial Cognition Conference, Dublin, August 1997

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Date:  Tue, 2 Dec 97 11:30:03 PST
From:  hegarty at condor.psych.ucsb.edu (Mary Hegarty)
Subject:  Spatial Cognition Conference, Dublin, August 1997


                        CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                              Mind III:
The Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society of Ireland
                       Theme: Spatial Cognition

                   University College Dublin, Ireland
                          August 17 -19, 1998

      Cognitive scientists study many different phenomena within the
general topic of spatial cognition.  Those concerned with
environmental spatial perception and cognition study how
intelligent agents build internal representations of  physical
space from perceptual experience and inference, the nature of these
representations, and how these representations guide action.  Other
cognitive scientists are concerned with how spatial information is
communicated linguistically and through graphic devices, such as
maps and diagrams.  Some others study the power of spatial
metaphors, both in language and graphics, for communicating and
reasoning about non-spatial information.

      In addition to these theoretical concerns, recent
technological advances have given rise to an array of applications
that depend heavily on assumptions as to the nature of spatial
cognition, in particular interfaces to geographical information
systems, the integration of vision and natural language processing,
route guidance systems, multimedia visualization systems,
multimodal interfaces and virtual reality.  These advances have
highlighted the need to better understand human spatial cognition,
so that we can design computer and information systems that
interface with the human information processing system.

      The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers
from different Cognitive Science disciplines (Psychology, Computer
Science, Linguistics and Cognitive Geography) who are studying
these different aspects of spatial cognition.  The conference will
provide a forum for researchers to share insights about different
aspects of spatial cognition and from the perspective of different
disciplines.  This conference aims to encourage both basic research
on spatial cognition and applied research on the application and
evaluation of models of spatial cognition.

      Aspects of spatial cognition covered by this conference
include but are not limited to:

      - Environmental spatial perception and cognition (navigation,
        locomotion and wayfinding)
      - Representation of spatial information in memory
      - Development of spatial cognition
      - Comprehension and use of spatial representations (diagrams,
        maps, graphs) in thinking
      - Spatial language
      - Integration of spatial and linguistic representations
      - Computational models of spatial cognition
      - Application of research on spatial cognition to the design
        of computer and information systems
      - Application of research on spatial cognition to
        environmental design

Program Committee:

      Ruth Byrne, Trinity College Dublin
      Jerome Feldman, University of California, Berkeley
      Mary Hegarty, University of California, Santa Barbara (Program
      Chair)
      Christopher Habel, University of Hamburg
      George Lakoff, University of California, Berkeley
      Robert H. Logie, University of Aberdeen
      Jack Loomis, University of California, Santa Barbara
      Paul Mc Kevitt, Aalborg University and University of Sheffield
      Daniel R. Montello, University of California, Santa Barbara
      N. Hari Naryanan, Auburn University and Georgia Institute of
      Technology
      Patrick Olivier, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
      Sean O Nuallain, Dublin City University (Co-Chair)
      Terry Regier, University of Chicago
      Keith Stenning, Edinburgh University
      Michael Spivey Knowlton, Cornell University
      Arnold Smith, National Research Council, Canada
      Barbara Tversky, Stanford University

Local Organizing Committee:

      Sean O Nuallain, Dublin City University
      Tony Veale, Dublin City University
      Ronan Reilly, University College Dublin

Submission Details:

      Papers of 3000 to 5000 words in length should be submitted to
the address below, to arrive by March 1, 1998. Please send 3
hardcopy versions of your paper, as electronic equivalents do not
always give perfect reproductions across different platforms.

                          Mary Hegarty
                     Department of Psychology
              University of California, Santa Barbara
                    Santa Barbara, CA 93106
                             U.S.A.

                     Phone: (805) 893-3750
                      Fax: (805) 893-4303
                  Email: hegarty at psych.ucsb.edu

      All accepted papers will be printed in the conference
proceedings and selected papers will be published in a special
issue of the new journal Spatial Cognition and Computation (Kluwer
Academic Publishers, Journal Editors: Patrick Olivier and Stephen
Hirtle).

                        Important Dates:

              Full paper submission: March 1, 1998
                  Notification: April 15, 1998


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