Representing Space in Cognition: Interrelations of Behaviour, Language, and Formal Models

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• Thora Tenbrink
• Jan M. Wiener
• Christophe Claramunt

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352pagine

Tempo di lettura

13ore

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• Natura
• Natura, animali
• Psicologia

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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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: 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

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Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2013

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