This book considers how people talk about their environment, find their way in new surroundings, and plan routes. Leading scholars and researchers in psychology, linguistics, computer science, and geography show how empirical research can be used to inform formal approaches towards the development of intuitive assistance systems.
Thora Tenbrink is a Lecturer in Cognitive Linguistics at Bangor University (Wales, UK). She worked for ten years as a research scientist at the Faculty of Linguistics at Bremen University (Germany), and is a principal investigator in two projects in the Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition (Bremen/Freiburg). Her main interest concerns the relationship between cognitive processes and linguistic representations. She is the author of Space, Time, and the Use of Language (Mouton de Gruyter, 2007), and editor, with Kenny Coventry and John Bateman, of Spatial Language and Dialogue (OUP, 2009). Jan Wiener is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Bournemouth (UK). Previously he has worked as a research scientist at the University of Freiburg (Germany), the CNRS (Paris, France), and the Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics (Tübingen, Germany). His research focuses primarily on the cognitive processes and strategies that underly navigation and wayfinding behaviour. Christophe Claramunt is a Professor in Computer Science and Chair of the Naval Academy Research Institute in France. He was previously a Senior Lecturer in Computing at the Nottingham Trent University and a Senior Researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University de Bourgogne in France. His main research interests concern theoretical and multi-disciplinary aspects of geographical information science, including spatio-temporal and computational models, alternative models of space, semantic GIS, integration of GIS and simulation systems, and the spatial Web.
Show moreThis book considers how people talk about their environment, find their way in new surroundings, and plan routes. Leading scholars and researchers in psychology, linguistics, computer science, and geography show how empirical research can be used to inform formal approaches towards the development of intuitive assistance systems.
Thora Tenbrink is a Lecturer in Cognitive Linguistics at Bangor University (Wales, UK). She worked for ten years as a research scientist at the Faculty of Linguistics at Bremen University (Germany), and is a principal investigator in two projects in the Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition (Bremen/Freiburg). Her main interest concerns the relationship between cognitive processes and linguistic representations. She is the author of Space, Time, and the Use of Language (Mouton de Gruyter, 2007), and editor, with Kenny Coventry and John Bateman, of Spatial Language and Dialogue (OUP, 2009). Jan Wiener is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Bournemouth (UK). Previously he has worked as a research scientist at the University of Freiburg (Germany), the CNRS (Paris, France), and the Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics (Tübingen, Germany). His research focuses primarily on the cognitive processes and strategies that underly navigation and wayfinding behaviour. Christophe Claramunt is a Professor in Computer Science and Chair of the Naval Academy Research Institute in France. He was previously a Senior Lecturer in Computing at the Nottingham Trent University and a Senior Researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University de Bourgogne in France. His main research interests concern theoretical and multi-disciplinary aspects of geographical information science, including spatio-temporal and computational models, alternative models of space, semantic GIS, integration of GIS and simulation systems, and the spatial Web.
Show more1: Thora Tenbrink, Jan Wiener, and Christophe Claramunt:
Introduction
Part I: Empirical Insights
2: Holly Taylor and Tad T. Brunyé: Describing the Way Out of a
Cornfield: Understanding congitive underpinnings of comprehending
survey and route descriptions
3: Marios Avraamides, Catherine Mello, and Nathan Greenauer:
Spatial Representations for Described and Perceived Locations
4: Michel Denis and Gilles Fernandez: The Processing of Landmarks
in Route Directions
Part II: Computational Models
5: Michael Barclay and Antony Galton: Selection of Reference
Objectives for Locative Expressions: The importance of knowledge
and perception
6: Eric Chown: Spatial prototypes
7: Parisa Kordjamshidi, Joana Hois, Martijn van Otterlo, and
Marie-Francine Moens: Learning to Interpret Spatial Natural
Language in Terms of Qualitative Spatial Relations
Part III: Intuitive Assistance
8: Inessa Seifert and Thora Tenbrink: Cognitive Operations in Tour
Planning
9: mathieu Gallay, Michel Denis, and Malika Auvray: Navigation
Assistance for Blind Pedestrians: Guidelines for the design of
devices and implications for spatial cognition
10: Nhung Nguyen and Ipke Wachsmuth: A Computational Model of
Cooperative Spatial Behaviour for Virtual Humans
11: Mehul Bhatt, Carl Schultz, and Christian Freksa: The 'Space' in
Spatial Assistance Systems: Conception, formalisation, and
computation
Thora Tenbrink is a Lecturer in Cognitive Linguistics at Bangor
University (Wales, UK). She worked for ten years as a research
scientist at the Faculty of Linguistics at Bremen University
(Germany), and is a principal investigator in two projects in the
Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition
(Bremen/Freiburg). Her main interest concerns the relationship
between cognitive processes and linguistic representations. She is
the author of Space,
Time, and the Use of Language (Mouton de Gruyter, 2007), and
editor, with Kenny Coventry and John Bateman, of Spatial Language
and Dialogue (OUP, 2009).
Jan Wiener is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of
Bournemouth (UK). Previously he has worked as a research scientist
at the University of Freiburg (Germany), the CNRS (Paris, France),
and the Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics (Tübingen,
Germany). His research focuses primarily on the cognitive processes
and strategies that underly navigation and wayfinding
behaviour.
Christophe Claramunt is a Professor in Computer Science and Chair
of the Naval Academy Research Institute in France. He was
previously a Senior Lecturer in Computing at the Nottingham Trent
University and a Senior Researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology in Lausanne. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from
the University de Bourgogne in France. His main research interests
concern theoretical and multi-disciplinary aspects of geographical
information science, including
spatio-temporal and computational models, alternative models of
space, semantic GIS, integration of GIS and simulation systems, and
the spatial Web.
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