Here the final conference programm as a PDF file.

All oral presentations of papers at SC 2012 are scheduled as 18 min talks plus 4 min for questions.

Thu 30.08.2012: Arrival

• 19:00 - 20:30: Dinner

Fri 31.08.2012: Workshops & Tutorials (see workshop program)

• Schedule for the Workshops and Tutorials
  • 08:30 - 10:00: Morning Workshops/Tutorials
  • 10:00 - 10:30: Coffee break
  • 10:30 - 12:00: Morning Workshops/Tutorials
  • 12:00 - 13:30: Lunch
  • 13:30 - 14:30: Afternoon Workshops/Tutorials
  • 14:30 - 15:00: Coffee break
  • 15:00 - 16:30: Afternoon Workshops/Tutorials
  • 16:30 - 16:50: Coffee break
  • 16:50 - 18:00: Afternoon Workshops/Tutorials
  • 19:00 - 20:30: Dinner
• List of Workshops and Tutorials
  • Full-Day Workshop: Place-Related Knowledge Acquisition Research (P-KAR)
  • Morning Tutorial: CogSketch
  • Morning Workshop: When is Virtual Reality Real Enough? Using VR in Spatial Cognition Research
  • Afternoon Tutorial: Understanding Spatial Thought Through Language Use
  • Afternoon Workshop: Spatial Knowledge Acquisition with Limited Information Displays

Sat 01.09.2012: Main Conference

• 08:50 - 10:00: Session: Analogy, Relations, and Representation
  • Using Spatial Analogy to Facilitate Graph Learning by Linsey A. Smith and Dedre Gentner
  • Assessing Similarities of Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Relations by Alexander Klippel, Jinlong Yang, Jan Oliver Wallgrün, Frank Dylla, and Rui Li
  • Are left-right hemisphere errors in point-to-origin tasks in VR caused by failure to incorporate heading changes? by Bernhard E. Riecke
• 10:00 - 10:30: Coffee break
• 10:30 - 12:00: Session: Language and Communication
  • Collaborating in spatial tasks: Partners adapt the perspective of their descriptions, coordination strategies, and memory representations by Alexia Galati and Marios N. Avraamides
  • Towards a revision of the typology of motion verbs by Sander Lestrade and Nina Reshöft
  • The mental representation derived from spatial descriptions is north-up oriented: the role of visuo-spatial abilities by Chiara Meneghetti, Francesca Pazzaglia, and Rossana De Beni
  • Relevance in spatial navigation and communication by Thora Tenbrink
• 12:00 - 13:30: Lunch
• 13:30 - 14:30: Invited Talk by Kevin O'Regan
• 14:30 - 15:00: Coffee break
• 15:00 - 16:30: Session: Linguistics, ontology and communication
  • A linguistic ontology of mode: The use of locations in spatial language by Sander Lestrade
  • Linguistic principles for spatial relational reasoning by Thora Tenbrink and Marco Ragni
  • Extended Verbal Assistance Facilitates Knowledge Acquisition of Virtual Tactile Maps by Kris Lohmann and Christopher Habel
  • Detecting Events in Video Data Using a Formal Ontology of Motion Verbs by Tommaso DOdorico and Brandon Bennett
• 16:30 - 16:50: Coffee break
• 16:50 - 19:00: Poster Session
  • The Space Between the Lines: Young Children’s Understanding of 2D Diagrams of 3D Objects by Andrea Frick and Nora S. Newcombe
  • Accurate 6D Localization in Multi-Level Environments by Stefan Osswald, Armin Hornung and Maren Bennewitz
  • Assessing Spatial Skills Employed by Geoscientists in the Petroleum Industry by Melanie Busch, Bob Krantz, Peter Hennings, Richard Aram and Juli Hennings
  • Properties and mechanisms of sensory enhancement by Sabine König et al.
  • The Effects of Life Span Development on Spatial Updating of Haptic Arrays by Christopher Bennett and Nicholas Giudice
  • Automated natural language description of indoor spaces by Saranya Kesavan and Nicholas Giudice
  • A comparison of advanced and introductory geology students’ visual behavior using eye-tracking technology by Joshua Coyan, Melanie Busch and Stephen Reynolds
  • Neural Correlates in Numerical and Cartographic Scale and Magnitude by Victor Schinazi, Robert Pickett and Amy Lobben
  • Unsupervised Scene Analysis Using Semiparametric Bayesian Models by Dominik Joho, Gian Diego Tipaldi, Nikolas Engelhard, Cyrill Stachniss and Wolfram Burgard
  • Lifelong Localization and Dynamic Map Estimation in Changing Environments by Gian Diego Tipaldi, Daniel Meyer-Delius, Maximilian Beinhofer and Wolfram Burgard
  • Cognitive strategies in impossible worlds by William E. Marsh, Tim Hantel, Christoph Zetzsche, and Kerstin Schill
• 19:00 - 20:30: Dinner

Sun 02.09.2012: Main Conference

• 08:50 - 10:00: Doctoral Colloquia
  • Overcoming exclusivity in long-term spatial memory by Thomas Dunn
  • Location Memory Biases in 3D Spaces: Evidence for the Category Adjustment Model by Mark Holden
  • Broadening Spatial Thinking by Investigating its Role in Scientific Practices by David Miller
  • Saying is better than showing: Labels and maps in children’s understanding of midpoint by Nina Sims
  • Integration of Features and Geometric Information in Reorientation: Evidence fo an Adaptive Combination Model by Alexandra Twyman
• 10:00 - 10:30: Coffee break
• 10:30 - 12:00: Session: Spatial Representation
  • Integration of spatial relations across perceptual experiences by Marios N. Avraamides, Christina Adamou, Alexia Galati, and Jonathan W. Kelly
  • Mental Travel Primes Place Orientation in Spatial Recall by Kai Basten, Tobias Meilinger, and Hanspeter A. Mallot
  • Representing Space: Exploring the Relationship between Gesturing and Geoscience Understanding in Children by Bryan J. Matlen, Kinnari Atit, Tilbe Göksun, Martina A. Rau, and Maria Ptouchkina
  • Linking Cognitive and Computational Saliences in Route Information by Makoto Takemiya and Kai-Florian Richter, and Toru Ishikawa
• 12:00 - 13:30: Lunch
• 13:30 - 14:30: Invited Talk by Bastian Leibe: Dynamic Visual Scene Understanding: Where Are We and Where Should We Go Next?
• 14:30 - 15:00: Coffee break
• 15:00 - 16:30: Session: Object and Semantic Mapping
  • Predicting what lies ahead in the topology of indoor environments by Alper Aydemir, Erik Järleberg Samuel Prentice, and Patric Jensfelt
  • Online semantic mapping of urban environments by Nikos Mitsou, Roderick de Nijs, David Lenz, Johannes Frimberger, Dirk Wollherr, Kolja Kühnlenz, and Costas Tzafestas
  • Object Categorization in Clutter using Additive Features and Hashing of Part-graph Descriptors by Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Florian Seidel, Lucian Cosmin Goron, and Michael Beetz
  • Efficient Object Categorization with the Surface-Approximation Polynomials Descriptor by Richard Bormann, Jan Fischer, Georg Arbeiter, and Alexander Verl
• 16:30 - 16:53: Session: Wayfinding 1
  • An iPad App for Recording Movement Paths and Associated Spatial Behaviors by Nick Sheep Dalton, Ruth Conroy Dalton, Christoph Hölscher, and Gregory Kuhnmünch
• 16:55 - 20:30: Social Event

Mon 03.09.2012: Main Conference

• 08:50 - 10:00: Doctoral Colloquia
  • Creating an Affordance-based Model of Walkability by David Jonietz
  • Where do you think you are? A virtual environment assessment of navigation ability by Steven Weisberg
  • Human Factors in Qualitative Spatial Reasoning by Jinlong Yang
  • A Haptic-Acoustic Interface for Acquiring Spatial Knowledge about Apartments by Junlei Yu
  • The effect of analogy and relational language on preschooler's map learning by Lei Yuan
• 10:00 - 10:30: Coffee break
• 10:30 - 12:00: Session: Mapping
  • Dense map inference with user-defined priors: from priorlets to scan eigenvariations by Paloma de la Puente and Andrea Censi
  • Towards Geometric Mapping for Semi-autonomous Mobile Robots by Georg Arbeiter, Richard Bormann, Jan Fischer, Martin Hägele, and Alexander Verl
  • SURE: Surface Entropy for Distinctive 3D Features by Torsten Fiolka, Jörg Stückler, Dominik A. Klein, Dirk Schulz, and Sven Behnke
  • Tutorial on Quick and Easy Model Fitting Using the SLoM Framework by Christoph Hertzberg, Rene Wagner, and Udo Frese
• 12:00 - 13:30: Lunch
• 13:30 - 14:30: Invited Talk by David Lubinski: Spatial Ability’s Unique Role in Learning, Work, and Creativity: A 35-Year Longitudinal Study of Intellectually Precocious Youth
• 14:30 - 15:00: Coffee break
• 15:00 - 16:08: Session: Wayfinding 2
  • Wayfinding in real cities: experiments at street corners by Beatrix Emo
  • Detection of Object Onset and Offset in Naturalistic Scenes by Maria J. Donaldson and Naohide Yamamoto
  • Relocating Multiple Objects during Spatial Belief Revision by Leandra Bucher and Jelica Nejasmic
• 16:08 - 16:30: Session: Education and Development 1
  • Influence of Rotational Axis and Gender-Stereotypical Nature of Rotation Stimuli on the Mental-Rotation Performance of Male and Female Fifth Graders by Sarah Neuburger, Vera Heuser, Petra Jansen, and Claudia Quaiser-Pohl
• 16:30 - 16:50: Coffee break
• 16:50 - 18:10: Session: Education and Development 2
  • The Effects of Visual Granularity on Indoor Spatial Learning Assisted by Mobile 3D Information Displays by Nicholas A. Giudice and Hengshan Li
  • Activity effects on path integration tasks for children in different environments by Eva Neidhardt and Michael Popp
  • The relationship between coordination skill and mental rotation ability by Stefanie Pietsch and Petra Jansen
  • Closing Remarks
• 19:00 - 20:30: Dinner

Tue 04.09.2012: Going home (after breakfast)