Adaptation in Spatial Communication 2009 - Call for papers
Organised by Martin Tomko (University of Zurich) and Kai-Florian Richter (University of Bremen)
The workshop contributes to the informed design of spatial assistance systems through the exchange of state-of-the-art research results. It aims at issues and open questions in adaptation in human spatial communication and consequences and emerging principles for human-machine spatial communication. The main objective is to draw parallels between human-to-human communication and human-machine interaction in order to inform further research, design and development towards adaptive spatial assistance systems. The workshop explicitly addresses all modalities of communication, namely verbal, graphical, by gestures, and any combination thereof. Any contribution in the research cycle from theory and fundamental empirical results to algorithmization and (prototypical) implementation to empirical evaluation is welcome, but the key interest is in exploring the avenues to improve automatic processes that implement adaptive behavior in assistance systems and services.
The workshop will provide a platform for a synergic exchange of ideas between spatial scientists, especially those with interests in spatial cognition and communication and researchers in the field of geographic information science, artificial intelligence, location based services and human-computer interaction. The workshop is targeted to researchers of all levels of experience and will strive to encourage the interaction of experts from the diverse fields of targeted research.
- Empirical findings supporting the development of adaptive communication behavior in artificial systems;
- Comparative studies of spatial communication forms and their content;
- Investigation of communication strategies, including pragmatic spatial communication theories;
- Implementation of these strategies for communication adaptation (including targeted modalities and forms);
- (Spatial) representations and data structures for adaptive spatial communication behavior;
- Applications showing adaptive communication behavior;
- Empirical studies illustrating the power of adaptive spatial communication in systems and services.
Participants shall submit short papers of no more than 8 pages on any of the topics relevant for the workshop. Papers are to be written in Springer's LNCS format (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 for guidelines and templates). The program committee will review these papers. Please send your papers as PDF per e-mail either to Martin Tomko (martin.tomko[replacethis]geo.uzh.ch) or to Kai-Florian Richter (richter[replacethis]sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de).
Accepted contributions will be published as a technical report of the SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition report series. We also plan for a special issue in the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing following the workshop with selected contributions invited to be submitted in extended form.