Table of Contents

1: Thora Tenbrink, Jan Wiener, and Christophe Claramunt: Introduction
Part I: Empirical Insights
2: Holly Taylor and Tad T. Brunyé: Describing the Way Out of a Cornfield: Understanding congitive underpinnings of comprehending survey and route descriptions
3: Marios Avraamides, Catherine Mello, and Nathan Greenauer: Spatial Representations for Described and Perceived Locations
4: Michel Denis and Gilles Fernandez: The Processing of Landmarks in Route Directions
Part II: Computational Models
5: Michael Barclay and Antony Galton: Selection of Reference Objectives for Locative Expressions: The importance of knowledge and perception
6: Eric Chown: Spatial prototypes
7: Parisa Kordjamshidi, Joana Hois, Martijn van Otterlo, and Marie-Francine Moens: Learning to Interpret Spatial Natural Language in Terms of Qualitative Spatial Relations
Part III: Intuitive Assistance
8: Inessa Seifert and Thora Tenbrink: Cognitive Operations in Tour Planning
9: mathieu Gallay, Michel Denis, and Malika Auvray: Navigation Assistance for Blind Pedestrians: Guidelines for the design of devices and implications for spatial cognition
10: Nhung Nguyen and Ipke Wachsmuth: A Computational Model of Cooperative Spatial Behaviour for Virtual Humans
11: Mehul Bhatt, Carl Schultz, and Christian Freksa: The 'Space' in Spatial Assistance Systems: Conception, formalisation, and computation

About the Author

Thora Tenbrink is a Lecturer in Cognitive Linguistics at Bangor University (Wales, UK). She worked for ten years as a research scientist at the Faculty of Linguistics at Bremen University (Germany), and is a principal investigator in two projects in the Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition (Bremen/Freiburg). Her main interest concerns the relationship between cognitive processes and linguistic representations. She is the author of Space,
Time, and the Use of Language (Mouton de Gruyter, 2007), and editor, with Kenny Coventry and John Bateman, of Spatial Language and Dialogue (OUP, 2009).
Jan Wiener is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Bournemouth (UK). Previously he has worked as a research scientist at the University of Freiburg (Germany), the CNRS (Paris, France), and the Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics (Tübingen, Germany). His research focuses primarily on the cognitive processes and strategies that underly navigation and wayfinding behaviour.
Christophe Claramunt is a Professor in Computer Science and Chair of the Naval Academy Research Institute in France. He was previously a Senior Lecturer in Computing at the Nottingham Trent University and a Senior Researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University de Bourgogne in France. His main research interests concern theoretical and multi-disciplinary aspects of geographical information science, including
spatio-temporal and computational models, alternative models of space, semantic GIS, integration of GIS and simulation systems, and the spatial Web.