Table of Contents

Route Directions, Wayfinding, and Spatial Behavior.- Finding the Way Inside: Linking Architectural Design Analysis and Cognitive Processes.- Modelling Wayfinding in Public Transport: Network Space and Scene Space.- Isovists as a Means to Predict Spatial Experience and Behavior.- A Model for Context-Specific Route Directions.- Investigation of Preference Between the Least-Angle Strategy and the Initial Segment Strategy for Route Selection in Unknown Environments.- Descriptions of Space – Prepositions and Reference.- Spatial Prepositions and Vague Quantifiers: Implementing the Functional Geometric Framework.- Reference Frame Conflict in Assigning Direction to Space.- Identifying Objects on the Basis of Spatial Contrast: An Empirical Study.- Cultural Differences of Spatial Descriptions in Tourist Guidebooks.- Mental Models, Diagrams, and Maps.- Reasoning About Consistency with Spatial Mental Models: Hidden and Obvious Indeterminacy in Spatial Descriptions.- Spatial Principles in Control of Focus in Reasoning with Mental Representations, Images, and Diagrams.- Perceptually Induced Distortions in Cognitive Maps.- Characterizing Diagrams Produced by Individuals and Dyads.- Sketch Map Analysis Using GIS Buffer Operation.- Imagined Perspective–Changing Within and Across Novel Environments.- Thinking Through Diagrams: Discovery in Game Playing.- Spatio-Temporal Representation and Reasoning.- The Finest of its Class: The Natural Point-Based Ternary Calculus for Qualitative Spatial Reasoning.- Exploiting Qualitative Spatial Neighborhoods in the Situation Calculus.- Branching Allen.- SNAPVis and SPANVis: Ontologies for Recognizing Variable Vista Spatial Environments.- Modelling Models of Robot Navigation Using Formal Spatial Ontology.- Specification of an Ontology forRoute Graphs.- Robot Mapping and Piloting.- Autonomous Construction of Hierarchical Voronoi-Based Route Graph Representations.- Using 2D and 3D Landmarks to Solve the Correspondence Problem in Cognitive Robot Mapping.- Treemap: An O(log n) Algorithm for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping.- Towards Dialogue Based Shared Control of Navigating Robots.- Perception and Tracking of Dynamic Objects for Optimization of Avoidance Strategies in Autonomous Piloting of Vehicles.