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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding and Processing Sketch Maps WORKSHOP AT COSIT 2011 BELFAST, MAINE, USA, SEPTEMBER 12TH, 2011 Â Sketch maps have been studied for decades by various disciplines: cognitive psychologists use sketch maps as the external representations of cognitive maps to investigate how humans perceive and memorize the environment; geographers integrate cognitive invariants into GIScience using sketch maps. For instance, they use sketch maps to study natural language, geographic event conceptualizations and human wayfinding behavior. The automated recognition of hand-drawn sketch maps lies at the crossroads of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Human Computer Interaction. Compared with traditional maps from authorized mapping agencies, sketch maps are easy to produce by ordinary citizens, firmly related to human spatial thinking, and well represent human environmental knowledge. In a world where spatial information is available for everyone, there is still a gap between qualitative human perception and quantitative digital representations of spatial information. Processing of sketch maps can be a way to fill this gap and thereby advance spatial information systems towards a more natural human-computer interaction. Although researchers have been investigating sketch maps over 50 years, there exist many unsolved problems, e.g., with regard to using sketch maps as an intuitive user interface as well as the automatic recognition and interpretation of sketch maps. Many of them require contributions from several disciplines to come up with comprehensive solutions. Thus, this workshop will bring together researchers from these disciplines and foster mutual understanding and cooperation between them. Â The scope of this workshop includes, but is not limited to:
 Short papers (6-10 pages) should be written in English according to the formatting guideline specified here [WordTemplate] or [LateXStylefile]. The submitted version should be sent by email as a pdf to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . The workshop submissions will be peer-reviewed carefully by members of the Review Committee as listed below. Accepted papers will be published in the ifgi Prints series (with ISBN). Authors will present their work during the workshop. Registration of at least one author is a prerequisite for final paper acceptance and publication. Registrations for the workshop will be part of the COSIT registration process.  All participants will be encouraged to attend the full workshop (half-day on September 12th, detailed time to be announced) rather than individual talks. We will make sure that there is enough time for discussion of each presentation. To wrap up the workshop, we will have a lightning talk session in the end featuring small spontaneous presentations by the participants to initiate further discussion and interaction.  May 20th      Full paper submission (Full paper submission extended to June 15th) June 27th      Notification of acceptance July 15th      Revised paper due (extended to July 25th) Sept 12th      Workshop  from Spatial Intelligence Lab in Münster, Germany from Cognitive Systems Group in Bremen, Germany Sven Bertel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA  Scott Bell, Jennifer Archibald Klaus Broelemann Paolo Foglianroni, Giorgio De Felice, Falko Schmid, Jan Oliver Wallgrün Rui Li, Scott Bell Kris Lohmann Diedrich Wolter, Kai-Florian Richter, Jan Oliver Wallgrün  14:15 Welcome & Icebreaker 14:30 Klaus Broelemann 15:00 Scott Bell 15:30 Giorgio De Felice 16:00 Coffee break 16:30 Kris Lohmann 17:00 Rui Li 17:30 Jan Oliver Wallgrün 18:00 Wrap-up of the workshop |
