Seminar: Spatial Cognition - Topics
Vortragsthemen
    	- Spatial deduction in humans
	
 
 
	  Betreuer: 
     	Prof. Dr. Marco Ragni           
Literatur:     J.-B. van der Henst:     Mental model theory versus the inference rule approach in relational reasoning.     Thinking and Reasoning, 8: 193-205, 2002     (Pdf)    R.M.J. Byrne and P.N. Johnson-Laird:     Spatial Reasoning. Journal of Memory and Language, 28: 564-575, 1989     (Pdf) 
Referent(-in): Edgar Oswald 
Kommentator: Melanie Niemann 
 
   
    	- Neurocognitive basis of spatial deduction
	
 
 
	  Betreuer: 
     	Prof. Dr. Marco Ragni           
Literatur:    M. Ragni, T. Fangmeier, and S. Brüssow:       Deductive spatial reasoning: From neurological evidence to a cognitive model.       Proc. of the 10th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM 2010), 2010         (Pdf)   T. Fangmeier, M. Knauff, Ch. Ruff, and V. Sloutsky:       FMRI evidence for a three-stage model of deductive reasoning.       Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(3): 320-334, 2006.         (Pdf)   J. Prado, J.-B. van der Henst , I.A. Noveck:       Recomposing a fragmented literature: how conditional and relational        arguments engage different neural systems for deductive reasoning.       Neuroimage, 51(3):1213-21, 2010.         (Pdf) 
Referent(-in): Isabel Leonhardt 
Kommentator: Alexander Schneider 
 
    	- Revision of mental models and relational complexity
	
 
 
	  Betreuer: 
     	Prof. Dr. Marco Ragni           
Literatur:    G.P. Goodwin and P.N. Johnson-Laird:       Reasoning about relations.       Psychological Review, 112(2): 468-493, 2005         (Pdf)   R. Rauh, C. Hagen, M. Knauff, T. Kuß, C. Schlieder, and G. Strube:       From preferred to alternative mental models in spatial reasoning.       Spatial Cognition and Computation, 5: 239-269, 2005         (Pdf)   G. Jahn, M. Knauff, and P.N. Johnson-Laird:       Preferred mental models in spatial reasoning.       Proc. of the 27th Annual Cognitive Science Conference, 2005         (Pdf) 
Referent(-in): Alexander Schneider 
Kommentator: Edgar Oswald 
 
    	- Planning in spatial puzzles
	
 
 
	  Betreuer: 
     	Prof. Dr. Marco Ragni           
Literatur:    J.R. Anderson, M.V. Albert, and J.M. Fincham:       Tracing Problem Solving in Real Time: fMRI Analysis of the subject-paced  Tower of Hanoi.       Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17(8): 1261-1274, 2005         (Pdf)   E. Fimbel, S. Lauzon, and C. Rainville:       Performance of Humans vs. Exploration Algorithms on the Tower of London Test.       PLoS ONE 4(9), 2009       (Pdf) 
Referent(-in): Melanie Niemann 
Kommentator: Philip Stahl 
 
    	- Desert ant navigation: A case study
	
 
 
	  Betreuer: 
     	Prof. Dr. Marco Ragni           
Literatur:    R. Wehner:       Desert ant navigation: How miniature brains solve complex tasks.       Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2003         (Pdf) 
Referent(-in): Jonas Sternisko 
Kommentator: Denis Stier 
 
    	- Cognitive maps
	
 
 
	  Betreuer: 
     	Prof. Dr. Marco Ragni           
Literatur:    E.C. Tolman,       Cognitive maps in rats and men.       The Psychological Review, 55(4): 189-208, 1948         (Pdf)   R. G. M. Morris, P. Garrud, J.N.P. Rawlins, and J. O'Keefe:       Place navigation impaired in rats with hippocampal lesions.       Nature, 297: 681-683, 1982         (Pdf)   S. Talwar, S. Xu, E. Hawley, S. Weiss, K. Moxont,  and J. Chapin       Rat navigation guided by remote control.       Brief Communications, Nature, 417: 37-38, 2002         (Pdf) 
Referent(-in): Christopher Dorner 
Kommentator: Matthias Frorath 
 
    	- Path selection behavior in rats
	
 
 
	  Betreuer: 
     	Dr. Stefan Wölfl           
Literatur:    L. Gerstmayr, H.A. Mallot, and J.M. Wiener:       A minimalistic model of visually guided obstacle avoidance and path selection behavior.       In C. Freksa et al. (eds.): Spatial Cognition VI, pp. 87-103, 2008       (Pdf) 
Referent(-in): Sabine Frauenhoffer 
Kommentator: Andreas Hertle 
 
    	- Qualitative spatial reasoning
	
 
 
	  Betreuer: 
     	Dr. Stefan Wölfl           
Literatur:    A.G. Cohn and J. Renz:       Qualitative spatial representation and reasoning.       In: F. Harmelen, V. Lifschitz and B. Porter (eds.),       Handbook of Knowledge Representation, Elsevier, 2007         (Pdf) 
Referent(-in): NN 
Kommentator: NN 
 
    	- Learning activities from video
	
 
 
	  Betreuer: 
     	Dr. Stefan Wölfl           
Literatur:    M. Sridhar, A.G. Cohn, and D.C. Hogg:       Unsupervised learning of event classes from video.       Proc. of AAAI 2010, pp. 1631-1638, 2010.       (Pdf)   M. Sridhar, A.G. Cohn, and D.C. Hogg:       Learning functional object-categories from a relational spatio-temporal representation.       Proc. of ECAI 2008, pp. 606-610, 2008         (Pdf) 
Referent(-in): Denis Stier 
Kommentator: Andreas Bühl 
 
    	- Spatial information in shadows
	
 
 
	  Betreuer: 
     	Dr. Stefan Wölfl           
Literatur:    P. Santos, H.M. Dee, and V. Fenelon:       Qualitative robot localisation using information from cast shadows.       Proc. of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 220-225, 2009         Proc. of ECAI 2008, pp. 606-610, 2008	   (Pdf)   R. Casati:       The shadow knows. A primer on the informational structure of cast shadows.       Perception, 33(11): 1385-1396, 2004         (Pdf) 
Referent(-in): Daniel Frey 
Kommentator: Sabine Frauenhoffer 
 
   
    	- Turn directions in navigation
	
 
 
	  Betreuer: 
     	Dr. Stefan Wölfl           
Literatur:    A. Klippel and  D.R. Montello:       Linguistic and nonlinguistic turn direction concepts.       Proc. of COSIT '07, pp. 354-372, 2007         (Pdf)   D.R. Montello:       Navigation.       In: P. Shah and A. Miyake, The Cambridge Handbook of Visuospatial Thinking, pp. 257-294, 2005       (Pdf) 
Referent(-in): Matthias Frorath 
Kommentator: Christopher Dorner 
 
    	- Landmarks in routing instructions
	
 
 
	  Betreuer: 
     	Dr. Stefan Wölfl           
Literatur:    M. Duckham, S. Winter, and M. Robinson:       Including landmarks in routing instructions.       Journal of Location-Based Services, 4(1), 28-52, 2010         (Pdf) 
Referent(-in): Jendrik Seipp 
Kommentator: Stefan Osswald 
 
 
    	- Multi-modal semantic place classification
	
 
 
	  Betreuer: 
     	Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard           
Literatur:    A. Pronobis, O. M. Mozos, B. Caputo, and P. Jensfelt:       Multi-modal semantic place classification.       The International Journal of Robotics Research,         Special Issue on Robotic Vision, 29(2-3): 298-320,  2010         (Pdf) 
Referent(-in): Jan Wülfing 
Kommentator: Mario Schommer 
 
    	- From images to human concepts of rooms
	
 
 
	  Betreuer: 
     	Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard           
Literatur:    Z. Zivkovic, O. Booij , and B. Kröse:       From images to rooms.     Robotic and Autonomous Systems, 55(5): 411-418, 2007       (Pdf)          Additional material is available  here.      
Referent(-in): Stefan Osswald 
Kommentator: Jendrik Seipp 
 
    	- Scene descriptions in urban environments
	
 
 
	  Betreuer: 
     	Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard           
Literatur:    I. Posner, D. Schröter, and P. Newman:       Online generation of scene descriptions in urban environments.       Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 56(11): 901-914, 2008         (Pdf) 
Referent(-in): Andreas Bühl 
Kommentator: Jan Wülfing 
 
    	- Philosophical Robotics
	
 
 
	  Betreuer: 
     	Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard           
Literatur:    A. Sloman:       Cross-disciplinary reflections: Philosophical robotics.       In: H.I. Christensen, A. Sloman, G-J. Kruijff & J. Wyatt (eds.),       Cognitive Systems, pp. 447-492, 2010         (Pdf) 
Referent(-in): Philip Stahl 
Kommentator: Isabel Leonhardt 
 
    	- A decision-theoretic model for human-robot interaction
	
 
 
	  Betreuer: 
     	Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard           
Literatur:    F. Doshi and N. Roy:        Spoken language interaction with model uncertainty: An adaptive human-robot interaction system.     Connection Science, 20(4): 299-319, 2008       (Pdf) 
Referent(-in): Mario Schommer 
Kommentator: Jost Tobias Springenberg 
 
    	- In what space do humans learn how to reach?
	
 
 
	  Betreuer: 
     	Dr. Jan Peters           
Literatur:    M. Mistry:     Resolving kinematic redundancy in human reaching.     Chapter 2 of The Representation, Learning, and Control of  Dexterous Motor Skills in Humans and Humanoid Robots.     Ph.D. Thesis. University of Southern California, 2009     (Pdf) 
Referent(-in): Andreas Hertle 
Kommentator: Daniel Frey 
 
    	- How can robots operate in many different task spaces?
	
 
 
	  Betreuer: 
     	Dr. Jan Peters           
Literatur:    L. Sentis:     Compliant control of whole-body multi-contact behaviors in humanoid robots.     In Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots, 2009     (Pdf)   L. Sentis and O. Khatib:     Control of free-floating humanoid robots through task prioritization.     Proc. of the International Conference in Robotics and Automation, 2005     (Pdf) 
Referent(-in): Jost Tobias Springenberg 
Kommentator: Jonas Sternisko 
 
                                                                                
 
    	- Robotics-based synthesis of human motion
	
 
 
	  Betreuer: 
     	Dr. Jan Peters           
Literatur:    O. Khatib, E. Demircan, V. DeSapio, L. Sentis, T. Besier, and S. Delp:     Robotics-based synthesis of human motion.     Journal of Biomechanics, 2009     (Pdf) 
Referent(-in): NN 
Kommentator: NN 
 
| Betreuer: | Prof. Dr. Marco Ragni | 
| Literatur: | J.-B. van der Henst:     Mental model theory versus the inference rule approach in relational reasoning.     Thinking and Reasoning, 8: 193-205, 2002     (Pdf) R.M.J. Byrne and P.N. Johnson-Laird:     Spatial Reasoning. Journal of Memory and Language, 28: 564-575, 1989     (Pdf) | 
| Referent(-in): | Edgar Oswald | 
| Kommentator: | Melanie Niemann | 
| Betreuer: | Prof. Dr. Marco Ragni | 
| Literatur: | M. Ragni, T. Fangmeier, and S. Brüssow:       Deductive spatial reasoning: From neurological evidence to a cognitive model.       Proc. of the 10th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM 2010), 2010         (Pdf) T. Fangmeier, M. Knauff, Ch. Ruff, and V. Sloutsky:       FMRI evidence for a three-stage model of deductive reasoning.       Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(3): 320-334, 2006.         (Pdf) J. Prado, J.-B. van der Henst , I.A. Noveck:       Recomposing a fragmented literature: how conditional and relational        arguments engage different neural systems for deductive reasoning.       Neuroimage, 51(3):1213-21, 2010.         (Pdf) | 
| Referent(-in): | Isabel Leonhardt | 
| Kommentator: | Alexander Schneider | 
| Betreuer: | Prof. Dr. Marco Ragni | 
| Literatur: | G.P. Goodwin and P.N. Johnson-Laird:       Reasoning about relations.       Psychological Review, 112(2): 468-493, 2005         (Pdf) R. Rauh, C. Hagen, M. Knauff, T. Kuß, C. Schlieder, and G. Strube:       From preferred to alternative mental models in spatial reasoning.       Spatial Cognition and Computation, 5: 239-269, 2005         (Pdf) G. Jahn, M. Knauff, and P.N. Johnson-Laird:       Preferred mental models in spatial reasoning.       Proc. of the 27th Annual Cognitive Science Conference, 2005         (Pdf) | 
| Referent(-in): | Alexander Schneider | 
| Kommentator: | Edgar Oswald | 
| Betreuer: | Prof. Dr. Marco Ragni | 
| Literatur: | J.R. Anderson, M.V. Albert, and J.M. Fincham:       Tracing Problem Solving in Real Time: fMRI Analysis of the subject-paced  Tower of Hanoi.       Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17(8): 1261-1274, 2005         (Pdf) E. Fimbel, S. Lauzon, and C. Rainville:       Performance of Humans vs. Exploration Algorithms on the Tower of London Test.       PLoS ONE 4(9), 2009       (Pdf) | 
| Referent(-in): | Melanie Niemann | 
| Kommentator: | Philip Stahl | 
| Betreuer: | Prof. Dr. Marco Ragni | 
| Literatur: | R. Wehner:       Desert ant navigation: How miniature brains solve complex tasks.       Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2003         (Pdf) | 
| Referent(-in): | Jonas Sternisko | 
| Kommentator: | Denis Stier | 
| Betreuer: | Prof. Dr. Marco Ragni | 
| Literatur: | E.C. Tolman,       Cognitive maps in rats and men.       The Psychological Review, 55(4): 189-208, 1948         (Pdf) R. G. M. Morris, P. Garrud, J.N.P. Rawlins, and J. O'Keefe:       Place navigation impaired in rats with hippocampal lesions.       Nature, 297: 681-683, 1982         (Pdf) S. Talwar, S. Xu, E. Hawley, S. Weiss, K. Moxont,  and J. Chapin       Rat navigation guided by remote control.       Brief Communications, Nature, 417: 37-38, 2002         (Pdf) | 
| Referent(-in): | Christopher Dorner | 
| Kommentator: | Matthias Frorath | 
| Betreuer: | Dr. Stefan Wölfl | 
| Literatur: | L. Gerstmayr, H.A. Mallot, and J.M. Wiener:       A minimalistic model of visually guided obstacle avoidance and path selection behavior.       In C. Freksa et al. (eds.): Spatial Cognition VI, pp. 87-103, 2008       (Pdf) | 
| Referent(-in): | Sabine Frauenhoffer | 
| Kommentator: | Andreas Hertle | 
| Betreuer: | Dr. Stefan Wölfl | 
| Literatur: | A.G. Cohn and J. Renz:       Qualitative spatial representation and reasoning.       In: F. Harmelen, V. Lifschitz and B. Porter (eds.),       Handbook of Knowledge Representation, Elsevier, 2007         (Pdf) | 
| Referent(-in): | NN | 
| Kommentator: | NN | 
| Betreuer: | Dr. Stefan Wölfl | 
| Literatur: | M. Sridhar, A.G. Cohn, and D.C. Hogg:       Unsupervised learning of event classes from video.       Proc. of AAAI 2010, pp. 1631-1638, 2010.       (Pdf) M. Sridhar, A.G. Cohn, and D.C. Hogg:       Learning functional object-categories from a relational spatio-temporal representation.       Proc. of ECAI 2008, pp. 606-610, 2008         (Pdf) | 
| Referent(-in): | Denis Stier | 
| Kommentator: | Andreas Bühl | 
| Betreuer: | Dr. Stefan Wölfl | 
| Literatur: | P. Santos, H.M. Dee, and V. Fenelon:       Qualitative robot localisation using information from cast shadows.       Proc. of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 220-225, 2009         Proc. of ECAI 2008, pp. 606-610, 2008	   (Pdf) R. Casati:       The shadow knows. A primer on the informational structure of cast shadows.       Perception, 33(11): 1385-1396, 2004         (Pdf) | 
| Referent(-in): | Daniel Frey | 
| Kommentator: | Sabine Frauenhoffer | 
| Betreuer: | Dr. Stefan Wölfl | 
| Literatur: | A. Klippel and  D.R. Montello:       Linguistic and nonlinguistic turn direction concepts.       Proc. of COSIT '07, pp. 354-372, 2007         (Pdf) D.R. Montello:       Navigation.       In: P. Shah and A. Miyake, The Cambridge Handbook of Visuospatial Thinking, pp. 257-294, 2005       (Pdf) | 
| Referent(-in): | Matthias Frorath | 
| Kommentator: | Christopher Dorner | 
| Betreuer: | Dr. Stefan Wölfl | 
| Literatur: | M. Duckham, S. Winter, and M. Robinson:       Including landmarks in routing instructions.       Journal of Location-Based Services, 4(1), 28-52, 2010         (Pdf) | 
| Referent(-in): | Jendrik Seipp | 
| Kommentator: | Stefan Osswald | 
| Betreuer: | Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard | 
| Literatur: | A. Pronobis, O. M. Mozos, B. Caputo, and P. Jensfelt:       Multi-modal semantic place classification.       The International Journal of Robotics Research,         Special Issue on Robotic Vision, 29(2-3): 298-320,  2010         (Pdf) | 
| Referent(-in): | Jan Wülfing | 
| Kommentator: | Mario Schommer | 
| Betreuer: | Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard | 
| Literatur: | Z. Zivkovic, O. Booij , and B. Kröse:       From images to rooms.     Robotic and Autonomous Systems, 55(5): 411-418, 2007       (Pdf)        Additional material is available  here.      | 
| Referent(-in): | Stefan Osswald | 
| Kommentator: | Jendrik Seipp | 
| Betreuer: | Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard | 
| Literatur: | I. Posner, D. Schröter, and P. Newman:       Online generation of scene descriptions in urban environments.       Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 56(11): 901-914, 2008         (Pdf) | 
| Referent(-in): | Andreas Bühl | 
| Kommentator: | Jan Wülfing | 
| Betreuer: | Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard | 
| Literatur: | A. Sloman:       Cross-disciplinary reflections: Philosophical robotics.       In: H.I. Christensen, A. Sloman, G-J. Kruijff & J. Wyatt (eds.),       Cognitive Systems, pp. 447-492, 2010         (Pdf) | 
| Referent(-in): | Philip Stahl | 
| Kommentator: | Isabel Leonhardt | 
| Betreuer: | Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard | 
| Literatur: | F. Doshi and N. Roy:        Spoken language interaction with model uncertainty: An adaptive human-robot interaction system.     Connection Science, 20(4): 299-319, 2008       (Pdf) | 
| Referent(-in): | Mario Schommer | 
| Kommentator: | Jost Tobias Springenberg | 
| Betreuer: | Dr. Jan Peters | 
| Literatur: | M. Mistry:     Resolving kinematic redundancy in human reaching.     Chapter 2 of The Representation, Learning, and Control of  Dexterous Motor Skills in Humans and Humanoid Robots.     Ph.D. Thesis. University of Southern California, 2009     (Pdf) | 
| Referent(-in): | Andreas Hertle | 
| Kommentator: | Daniel Frey | 
| Betreuer: | Dr. Jan Peters | 
| Literatur: | L. Sentis:     Compliant control of whole-body multi-contact behaviors in humanoid robots.     In Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots, 2009     (Pdf) L. Sentis and O. Khatib:     Control of free-floating humanoid robots through task prioritization.     Proc. of the International Conference in Robotics and Automation, 2005     (Pdf) | 
| Referent(-in): | Jost Tobias Springenberg | 
| Kommentator: | Jonas Sternisko | 
| Betreuer: | Dr. Jan Peters | 
| Literatur: | O. Khatib, E. Demircan, V. DeSapio, L. Sentis, T. Besier, and S. Delp:     Robotics-based synthesis of human motion.     Journal of Biomechanics, 2009     (Pdf) | 
| Referent(-in): | NN | 
| Kommentator: | NN | 
