Symposium: SPATIAL REASONING AND COMMUNICATION
April 2nd-5th 2007, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon
Tyne, UK
Programme
10.30-12.30 Session 1
Kenny Coventry: Invited Talk: Motor Resonance, Spatial Language and Spatial Reasoning
Jonas Melchert, Silvia Coradeschi, and Amy Loutfi: Spatial Relations for
Perceptual Anchoring
Thora Tenbrink, Veronika Maiseyenka, and Reinhard Moratz: Spatial reference
in simulated human-robot interaction involving intrinsically oriented objects
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.30 Session 2
Tony Cohn: Invited Talk
Frank Dylla, Lutz Frommberger, Jan Oliver Wallgrün, Diedrich Wolter,
Bernhard Nebel, and Stefan Wölfl: SailAway: Formalizing Navigation Rules
Reinhard Moratz: A Granular Point Position Calculus for solving ambiguous
landmark problems in Cognitive Robotics
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-18.00 Session 3
Frieder Stolzenburg: Localization, Exploration and Navigation Based on Qualitative
Angle Information
Céline Hudelot, Jamal Atif, and Isabelle Bloch: An ontology of spatial
relations using fuzzy concrete domains
Angela Schwering: Semantic similarity of natural language spatial relations
General Discussion/Panel
Call for Papers (closed)
Spatial cognition has a significant role in our everyday lives. When commuting
from our home to our work place, we need a spatial map that enables us to
find a reasonable route through the city's road network. When looking for
a folder or a textbook in our office, it helps if we know the spatial location
at which the item is to be found. When constructing a building, it is essential
to understand the spatial-functional relations between the parts of the building:
ceilings have to be supported by walls, windows should be inside walls, etc.
Humans interacting with spatial environments typically do so without major
conscious efforts; also, communication about spatial relations mainly proceeds
smoothly. In spite of the fact that spatial language is highly ambiguous
and context-sensitive in many respects, humans generally manage to agree on
a suitable interpretation. Space has become such an integral part of our
lives that it is used even outside a concrete spatial framework, in metaphorical
ways, as in phrases like "on top of the world". It can therefore be successfully
argued that any ambient intelligence must have the capability of some form
of spatial cognition, which needs to be successfully integrated with, and
communicated to, the humans interacting with the environment.
This symposium aims at bringing together recent research developments in
spatial cognition in relation to ambient intelligence, addressing in particular
the relationship between humans and intelligent technology interacting and
communicating in spatial environments. It welcomes contributions to all aspects
of spatial cognition concerning communication and computation, including (but
not limited to) new results about:
- Formal analyses of spatial calculi and models
- Integration of spatial calculi with other reasoning formalisms (e.g.,
temporal calculi)
- Spatial database queries
- Context-sensitive interpretation and formalization of spatial language,
and its mediation towards system-relevant aspects, for example via spatial
ontologies
- Spatial human-machine communication via language and/or other modalities
- Computational treatment of functional-spatial relationships in natural
environments
- Handling of different spatial granularities
- Dealing with uncertainty in spatial cognition
Selected contributions will be considered for publication in an edited
collection or a special issue for a journal.
ORGANISERS
Hans W. Guesgen, University of Auckland
Reinhard Moratz, Universität Bremen
Thora Tenbrink,
Universität Bremen
Invited Speakers
Tony Cohn
Kenny Coventry
Program Committee:
John A. Bateman
Brandon Bennett
Thomas Bittner
Laura Carlson
M. Teresa Escrig
Kathleen Stewart Hornsby
Lars Kulik
Stefan Wölfl
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