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Spatial Intelligence Lab. intelligent representation & processing of spatial information Spatial Cognition in Humans How do humans perceive spatial information? How do humans process spatial information ? wayfinding, navigation Enhancement in Geoinformatics
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Spatial Intelligence Lab intelligent representation & processing of spatial information • Spatial Cognition in Humans • How do humans perceive spatial information? • How do humans process spatial information? • wayfinding, navigation • Enhancement in Geoinformatics • How to support humans interacting with GI software? • Spatial Qualitative Reasoning • Common-Sense Reasoning (similarity & analogy)
SketchMapia Street Map: Sketch Map by User: • How does spatial cognition in humans work? • How to bring human cognition and machine representation together?
SketchMapia City Map: Sketch Map by User: route landmark
SketchMapia • Experiments • spatial cognition • wayfinding • usability studies • qualitative KR • qualitative description of sketch maps • QSR • Analogy • symbolic analogy model (HDTP) • comparison of spatial patterns (recognition of sketch maps) • semantics / usability • formal model for semantics of nat. lang. spatial relations http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de/ag/schwering/