VSC 2013 - Workshop "Visual and Spatial Cognition" of the GI-Fachgrupppe Kognition

This workshop continues a series of successful workshops initiated by the Special Interest Group "Cognition" in the GI. 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 can be used 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 vision and spatial cognition.
Topics of Interest:
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