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WEDNESDAY – Workshops, Symposium, Tutorial
Morning Sessions: Start at 8:30, finish at 12.30. Coffee break: 10.30-11:00
- Spatial Cognition and Artificial Intelligence (Workshop)
- Spatial Navigation Interfaces for Immersive Environments (Tutorial)
- Connecting Spatial Visualization Skills and STEM (Symposium)
Afternoon Sessions:
Start at 14:00, finish at 18.30. Coffee break: 15:30-16:00
- Models and Representations in Spatial Cognition (Workshop)
- Virtual environments as geo/spatial labs (Workshop)
Dinner: Birds of a Feather (watch out for announcements)
THURSDAY – Main Conference
9:00-9:10 Welcome Remarks
9:10-10:30 Keynote Address
Prof. Nira Liberman, Tel Aviv University
Chair: Sarah Creem-Regehr
Title: Psychological distance: Similar effects between probability, temporal, spatial and social distance
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:40 Navigating in Space I
Chair: Ernst Kruijff
11.00 – 11.20 Spatial Features of Terrain Reflected in Pigeon Flights
Margarita Zaleshina and Alexander Zaleshin
11.20 – 11.40 Humans Construct Survey Estimates on the Fly from a Compartmentalized Representation of the Navigated Environment
Tobias Meilinger, Agnes Henson, Jonathan Rebane, Heinrich H. Bülthoff and Hanspeter A. Mallot
11.40-12.00 Spatial Survey Estimation is Incremental and Relies on Directed Memory Structures
Tobias Meilinger, Marianne Strickrodt and Heinrich H. Bülthoff
12.00 – 12.20 Pointing Errors in Non-metric Virtual Environments
Alexander Muryy and Andrew Glennerster
12.20 – 12.40 The Effect of Locomotion Modes on Spatial Memory and Learning in Large Immersive Virtual Environments: A Comparison of Walking with Gain to Continuous Motion Control
Xianshi Xie, Richard Paris, Timothy McNamara and Bobby Bodenheimer
12:40-14:00 Lunch (on your own. See map for recommendations)
14:00 -16:00 Poster Session I
16:00-17:40 Talking about Space
Chair: Kai-Florian Richter
16.00 – 16.20 A Graph Representation for Verbal Indoor Route Descriptions
Stephan Winter, Ehsan Hamzei, Nico Van De Weghe and Kristien Ooms
16.20 – 16.40 Object Orientation in Dialogue: A Case Study of Spatial Inference Processes
Gesa Schole, Thora Tenbrink, Elena Andonova and Kenny R. Coventry
16.40 – 17.00 Spatial Distribution of Local Landmarks in Route-based Sketch Maps
Vanessa Joy Anacta, Rui Li, Heinrich Löwen, Marcelo Galvao and Angela Schwering
17.00 – 17.20 The Influence of Animacy and Spatial Relation Complexity on the Choice of Frame of Reference in German
Katarzyna Stoltmann, Susanne Fuchs and Manfred Krifka
17.20 – 17.40 Spatial Discourse Production: Applying Denis’s Framework in a Non-urban Context
Ekaterina Egorova
Demo at Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (see venue page)
- 18:00 buses leaving to the Max Planck Institute
- 18:30 Snacks and “Welcome” at the Max Planck Institute (Max-Planck-Ring 14)
- 19:30 demo station 1
- 20:00 demo station 2
- 20:30 demo station 3
- 21:15 buses leaving to the main venue
FRIDAY
09:00 – 10:10 Keynote Address
Prof. Luc Van Gool, ETH Zurich
Chair: Heinrich Bülthoff
Title: There is no there there … or is there?
10:10-10:40 Coffee Break
10:40-12:00 Agents, Actions, and Space
Chair: Ruth Dalton
10.40 – 11.00 Differences and Commonalities in Self-localization Accuracy of Humans and Robots in a Complex Building
Rul von Stülpnagel, Vincent Langenfeld and Christoph Hölscher
11.00 – 11.20 A Comparison of Mental and Physical Rotation using Gaze-based Measures
Stefanie Wetzel and Sven Bertel
11.20 – 11.40 Deictic Adaptation in a Virtual Environment
Nikhil Krishnaswamy and James Pustejovsky
11.40 – 12.00 Analyzing Strong Spatial Cognition: A Modeling Approach
Jasper van de Ven, Munehiro Fukuda, Holger Schultheis, Christian Freska and Thomas Barkowsky
12:10-1:10 Individuals in Space
Chair: David Uttal
12.10 – 12.30 Do Spatial Abilities Have an Impact on Route Learning in Hypertexts?
Markus Kattenbeck, Thomas Jänich and Ludwig Kreuzpointner
12.30 – 12.50 A Dissociation Between Two Classes of Spatial Abilities in Elementary School Children
Cathleen Heil
12.50 – 13.10 State Anxiety Influences Sex Differences in Spatial Learning
Ian Ruginski, Jeanine Stefanucci and Sarah Creem-Regehr
13:10-14:10 Lunch on site
14:15-16:15 Poster Session II
16:15 Excursion
19:00 pm Conference Dinner
SATURDAY
9:00 -10:15 Keynote Address
Prof. William H. Warren, Brown University
Chair: Christian Freksa
Title: From cognitive maps to cognitive graphs
10:15-10:40 Coffee
10:40-12:20 Navigating in Space II
Chair: Lace Padilla
10.40 – 11.00 Electrocortical Evidence for Long-term Incidental Spatial Learning through Modified Navigation Instructions
Anna Wunderlich and Klaus Gramann
11.00 – 11.20 Distinguishing Sketch-map Types
Jakub Krukar, Stefan Münzer, Lucas Lörch, Vanessa Joy Anacta, Stefan Fuest and Angela Schwering
11.20 – 11.40 The Invisible Maze Task (IMT): Interactive Exploration of Sparse Virtual Environments to Investigate Action-driven Formation of Spatial Representations
Lukas Gehrke, John Rehner Iversen, Scott Makeig and Klaus Gramann
11.40 – 12.00 Memory for Salient Landmarks: Empirical Findings and a Cognitive Model
Rebecca Albrecht and Rul von Stülpnagel
12.00 – 12.20 A System of Automatic Generation of Landmark-based Pedestrian Navigation Instructions and its Effectiveness for Wayfinding
Jue Wang and Toru Ishikawa
12:20-14:00 Lunch (on your own. See map for recommendations)
Doctoral Colloquium
Chair: Liz Chrastil
14:00 Importing the social environment into the architectural understanding of city life: Wayfinding and emotional appraisal
Kristina Jazuk
14:12 User aspects of navigation in virtual environments
Dajana Snopkova
14:24 Effects of viewpoint transition and body-based cues on spatial learning in large-scale mediated environments
Jiayan Zhao
14:36 Route planning and situated navigation in a collaborative wayfinding task Crystal Bae
14:48 Evaluating maps’ usability in the context of medium interactivity Katarzyna Slomska
15:00 Evidence of hierarchical route planning in London taxi drivers
Eva-Maria Griesbauer
15:12 A physical effort based model for pedestrian movement in topographic urban environment
Eliyahu (Eli) Greenberg
15:24 Using landmarks in a pedestrian movement simulation
Gabriele Filomena
Small Break
15:36 Crosslinguistic study on the choice of spatial reference frame depending on complexity of perceived relation
Katarzyna (Kasia) Stoltmann
15:48 Positioning young students’ visualization of rotations as tools to define mathematical objects
Megan Wongkamalasai
16:00 Spatial cognition in surgical practice: Exploring the influence, and development, of spatial cognitive processess in laparoscopic surgery
Tina Vajsbaher
16:12 Design of a geospatial literacy assessment tool for senior secondary school students
Genine Meredith
16:24 Age-related preference for geometric cues during real-world navigation: Behavioral and neuroimaging correlates
Marcia Bécu
16:36 Bidirectional interactions between place-cell and grid-cells in the vision- and self-motion driven spatial representation model
Tianyi Li
16:48 Interactive exploration of sparse virtual environments: Brain dynamics in directional change vs. no-change situations
Lukas Gehrke
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