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TRR 8:  Spatial Cognition - Reasoning, Action, Interaction

Subject Area Computer Science, Systems and Electrical Engineering
Social and Behavioural Sciences
Term from 2003 to 2014
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5485810
 
Representation and processing of spatial information about our environment is an essential requirement of everyday cognition. Today there is a great body of evidence on how humans and animals reason about space, how they navigate through familiar and unknown environments without getting lost, how they act in spatial environments, how they interact in space, and how they communicate spatial information. One of the major challenges for current research is how these abilities can be accomplished by technical systems.
The goal is the integration of competence for reasoning about space, for acting in space intelligently, and for interacting in spatial environments. To reach this goal, the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre
-- develops approaches and tools for representing knowledge about spatial environments and for reasoning about this knowledge;
-- develops methods for judging complex spatial situations and for anticipating actions;
-- develops strategies for the acquisition of knowledge about space, for merging spatial expertise, and for finding suitable routes through space;
-- investigates how to conceptualise space, how to simplify spatial structures, and how to distribute spatial tasks;
-- investigates what can be learned from human spatial reasoning,
-- develops formal approaches to describe spatial concepts and their semantic interrelation.
The Transregional Collaborative Research Centre develops a spatial cognition repository that will serve as a basis for the integration of approaches inside and outside the Research Centre. The approaches and tools developed are integrated in a generic software repository to be instantiated for a given spatial assistance task. The formal spatial competence will be explored in the scenario of a variable spatial environment in which humans interact with artificial cognitive agents of different sorts. The spatial competence will be exploited to assist human agents in solving spatial tasks. The long-term perspective for this work is twofold. First, we intend to develop a theory of spatial competence. Second, we will provide a tool box to compute solutions for handling new spatial assistance requirements that will arise as technology advances.
DFG Programme CRC/Transregios

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Applicant Institution Universität Bremen
Co-Applicant Institution Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
 
 

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