Spatial Cognition VIII: International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2012, Kloster Seeon, Germany, August 31 -- September 3, 2012, Proceedings (Paperback, 2012)

Predicting What Lies Ahead in the Topology of Indoor Environments.- Object Categorization in Clutter Using Additive Features and Hashing of Part-Graph Descriptors.- Efficient Object Categorization with the Surface-Approximation Polynomials Descriptor.- Online Semantic Mapping of Urban Environments.- SURE: Surface Entropy for Distinctive 3D Features.- Dense Map Inference with User-Defined Priors: From Priorlets to Scan Eigenvariations.- Towards Geometric Mapping for Semi-autonomous Mobile Robots.- Tutorial on Quick and Easy Model Fitting Using the SLoM Framework.- Are Left-Right Hemisphere Errors in Point-to-Origin Tasks in VR Caused by Failure to Incorporate Heading Changes?.- The Effects of Visual Granularity on Indoor Spatial Learning Assisted by Mobile 3D Information Displays.- The Relationship between Coordination Skill and Mental Rotation Ability (Short Paper).- Collaborating in Spatial Tasks: Partners Adapt the Perspective of Their Descriptions, Coordination Strategies, and Memory Representations.- Using Spatial Analogy to Facilitate Graph Learning.- Activity Effects on Path Integration Tasks for Children in Different Environments.- Influence of Rotational Axis and Gender-Stereotypical Nature of Rotation Stimuli on the Mental-Rotation Performance of Male and Female Fifth Graders (Short Paper) .- Towards a Revision of the Typology of Motion Verbs.- Assessing Similarities of Qualitative Spatio-temporal Relations.- The Mental Representation Derived from Spatial Descriptions is North-Up Oriented: The Role of Visuo-spatial Abilities.- Linguistic Principles for Spatial Relational Reasoning.- Extended Verbal Assistance Facilitates Knowledge Acquisition of Virtual Tactile Maps.- A Linguistic Ontology of Mode: The Use of Locations in Spatial Language.- Detecting Events in Video Data Using a Formal Ontology of Motion Verbs.- Relevance in Spatial Navigation and Communication.- Mental Travel Primes Place Orientation in Spatial Recall.- Linking Cognitive and Computational Saliences in Route Information.- Representing Space: Exploring the Relationship between Gesturing and Geoscience Understanding in Children.- Integration of Spatial Relations across Perceptual Experiences.- An iPad App for Recording Movement Paths and Associated Spatial Behaviors.- Detection of Object Onset and Offset in Naturalistic Scenes.- Wayfinding in Real Cities: Experiments at Street Corners.- Relocating Multiple Objects during Spatial Belief Revision.