Spatial Cognition V Reasoning, Action, Interaction International
This is the fifth volume in a series of book publications featuring basic interdisciplinary research in spatial cognition. The study of spatial cognition is the study of knowledge about spatial properties of objects and events in the world. Spatial proper
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Thomas Barkowsky Markus Knauff Gérard Ligozat Daniel R. Montello (Eds.)
Spatial Cognition V Reasoning, Action, Interaction International Conference Spatial Cognition 2006 Bremen, Germany, September 24-28, 2006 Revised Selected Papers
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Thomas Barkowsky University of Bremen, Department of Computer Sciences Enrique-Schmidt-Straße 5, 28359 Bremen, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Markus Knauff Justus-Liebig University Gießen, Department of Psychology Otto-Behaghel-Strasse 10F, 35394 Giessen, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Gérard Ligozat LIMSI-CNRS, Université Paris-Sud 91403 Orsay, France E-mail: [email protected] Daniel R. Montello University of California, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, USA E-mail: [email protected] Library of Congress Control Number: 2007940030 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence CR Subject Classification (1998): H.2.8, I.2.10, H.3.1, K.4.2, B.5.1 ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
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Preface
This is the fifth volume in a series of book publications featuring basic interdisciplinary research in spatial cognition. The study of spatial cognition is the study of knowledge about spatial properties of objects and events in the world. Spatial properties include location, size, distance, direction, separation and connection, shape, pattern, and so on. Cognition is about the structures and processes of knowledge: its acquisition, storage, retrieval, manipulation, and use by humans, nonhuman animals, and machines. Broadly construed, cognitive activities include sensation and perception, thinking, attention, imagery, attitudes, memory, learning, language, and reasoning and problem-solving; the interaction of these activities with motoric (body movement) and affective (emotional) processing is recognized as critically important, as well. Cognition is typically considered to m
