KI 2013: Workshop on Visual and Spatial Cognition - 2nd CfP

[Frieder Stolzenburg]

KI 2013: Workshop on Visual and Spatial Cognition
		- 2nd 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>.

 
Organizers

Marco Ragni
University of Freiburg
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
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
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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Prof. Dr. Frieder Stolzenburg
Hochschule Harz (Harz University of Applied Sciences)
FB Automatisierung und Informatik (Automation & Computer Sciences Dep.)
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