[Ieee_vis] Workshop "Visual and Spatial Cognition" (Call for Papers)

[Michael Raschke]

KI 2013: Workshop on Visual and Spatial Cognition

                               - Call for Papers -

KIK - KI & Kognition Workshop Series



Description of Workshop Topic and Goal



The ability to process spatial information is crucial for various tasks as diverse as navigation, planning, and managing abstract concepts. Research issues in spatial cognition range from the investigation of human spatial cognition to mobile robot navigation. Much of that research effort, however, has been experimental, putting little stress on precise models of the involved representations and processes. Obviously, spatial cognition is closely related to visual cognition of places and scenes in general. Different visualization techniques and reasoning formalisms serve to analyze spatial cognition processes. They can be used to achieve a more general cognitive model.



This workshop aims at bringing together researchers from Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Robotics, Geographic Information Science, and related areas to foster a multi-disciplinary exchange between research in visual and spatial cognition. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:



* Spatial and temporal reasoning and cognition

* Psychological studies of human visual and spatial cognition

* Cognitive architectures/computational cognitive models of spatial reasoning

* Cognitive systems interacting with their environment and with humans

* Perception-based representation of high-level cognitive concepts

* Novel techniques in spatial cognition, e.g., eye tracking, fMRI, etc.

* Object and scene recognition

* Human-computer interaction and cognitive robotics



This workshop continues a series of successful workshops initiated by the Special Interest Group "Cognition" in the GI (German Informatics Society) <http://imodspace.iig.uni-freiburg.de/FachgruppeKognition/> and will be held in conjunction with KI 2013 <http://ki2013.uni-trier.de/> in Koblenz.





List of Important Dates



* Submission deadline: July 1st, 2013

* Notification: August 16th, 2013

* Camera-ready copy: August 31th, 2013

* Workshop: September September 17th, 2013





Submission and Contribution Format:



The workshop will be held in English, in order to attract an international audience. Each presenter is required to submit a short paper (4-8 pages) on the presented topic formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines (<ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip>). The agenda will leave enough room for discussions. So each talk will be followed by a discussion period of 10 minutes. Papers are subject to regular peer review and subsequent publication within the workshop proceedings.



Submissions should be sent as pdf file to <fstolzenburg at hs-harz.de<mailto:fstolzenburg at hs-harz.de>>.





Organizers



Marco Ragni

University of Freiburg

ragni at cognition.uni-freiburg.de<mailto:ragni at cognition.uni-freiburg.de>

http://portal.uni-freiburg.de/cognition/members/ragni



Michael Raschke

University of Stuttgart (VIS)

michael.raschke at vis.uni-stuttgart.de<mailto:michael.raschke at vis.uni-stuttgart.de>

http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/mitarbeiterInnen/michael-raschke.html



Frieder Stolzenburg (contact person)

Harz University of Applied Sciences

fstolzenburg at hs-harz.de<mailto:fstolzenburg at hs-harz.de>

http://fstolzenburg.hs-harz.de/





Program Committee



Thomas Barkowsky, U Bremen

Michael Burch, U Stuttgart

Lewis Chuang, MPI für Kybernetik

Christian Freksa, U Bremen

Reinhard Moratz, U Maine

Bernhard Nebel, U Freiburg

Thomas Röfer, DFKI Bremen

Ute Schmid, U Bamberg



Workshop homepage: <http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/wsvc/>



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Dipl.-Phys. Michael Raschke
Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems, University of Stuttgart (VIS)
Universitätstrasse 38, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany, Room 1.438
E-Mail: michael.raschke at vis.uni-stuttgart.de<mailto:michael.raschke at vis.uni-stuttgart.de>
Phone: +49 (711) 685-88466
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Michael_Raschke
Homepage: http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/mitarbeiterinnen/michael-raschke.html


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