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Submission deadline: October 2, 2009 AAAI Spring Symposium 2010 "Cognitive Shape Processing", March 22-24, 2010, Stanford University, California.
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Submission deadline: January 8, 2010 Abstract Submissions: Diagrams 2010: Sixth International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams.
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Submission deadline: January, 29, 2010 Paper Submission: GISCIENCE 2010: Sixth international conference on Geographic Information Science (Zurich, Switzerland), September 14-17, 2010.
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Submission deadline: January 18, 2010 Paper, Tutorial, & Workshop Proposal Submissions: Diagrams 2010: Sixth International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams. For more information see the attached .pdf document:
Submission deadline: February 1, 2010 Poster Submissions: Diagrams 2010: Sixth International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams. For more information see the attached .pdf document:
September 14-18, 2009: 4th International Conference on Spatial Cognition: Spatial Cognition and Action (ICSC 2009) in Rome, Italy. http://w3.uniroma1.it/icsc/2009/.
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September 21-25, 2009: Conference on Spatial Information Theory: COSIT'09, Aber Wrac'h, France. Conference website: http://www.cosit.info/
October 16 & 17, 2009 Art Beyond Sight International Conference, New York, NY.
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March 22-24, 2010: AAAI 2010 Spring Symposium "Cognitive Shape Processing" (Stanford University, Stanford, California)
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September 14-17, 2010: GIScience 2010, Zurich, Switzerland.
Conference info:
GIScience 2010 aims to bring together scientists from academia, industry, and government to discuss the state-of-the-art in geographic information science, and explore emerging research directions. The conference focuses on basic research findings across all sectors of the field, and pure application papers are discouraged. The conference has two (refereed) submission tracks: full papers and extended abstracts. Pre-conference workshops and tutorials (Sep. 14) and the main conference (Sep. 15-17) will take place at the University of Zurich-Irchel campus, featuring state-of-the-art conference facilities within a park-like setting. The conference site is located only 20 minutes from both downtown and Zurich Airport, and is easily accessible through public transport.
Conference website: http://www.giscience2010.org
Tuesday, November 3
9:30am-11:00am
Temple University
Hamilton Library
6th Floor Weiss Hall
1701 N 13th St
Philadelphia, PA 19122-6085
Sketching is a powerful means of working out and communicating ideas. Sketch understanding involves a combination of visual, spatial, and conceptual knowledge and reasoning, which makes it both challenging and potentially illuminating. This talk will describe how a team of AI researchers, cognitive psychologists, learning scientists, and educators is attempting to build the intellectual and software infrastructure needed to achieve more human-like sketch understanding software. We are creating CogSketch, an open-domain sketch understanding system that will serve as both a cognitive science research instrument and as a platform for sketch-based educational software. These missions interact: Our cognitive simulation work leads to improvements which can be exploited in creating educational software, and our prototype efforts to create educational software expose where we need further basic research. CogSketch incorporates a model of visual processing and qualitative spatial representations, facilities for analogical reasoning and learning, and a large common-sense knowledge base. Our vision is that sketch-based intelligent educational software will ultimately be as widely available to students as graphing calculators are today.
I will start by describing the basics of open-domain sketch understanding and how CogSketch works. Some cognitive simulation studies using CogSketch will be described, to illustrate that it can capture aspects of human visual processing. The potential use of implicit, software-gathered measures of expertise for assessment will be discussed, based on a recent experiment with sketching in geoscience. Two prototype educational software efforts will be summarized. The first, worksheets, provides a simple way to see if students understand important configural relationships, e.g., the layers of the Earth. The second, the Design Buddy, is intended to help students learn how to communicate via sketching in the context of learning engineering design.
While CogSketch is a work in progress, the current prototype is publicly available, and we seek community feedback and collaboration. CogSketch
can be downloaded at:
http://www.silccenter.org/working_groups/sketch_index.html.