Monday,
22 March 2010
09:00
welcome: Sven Bertel
participants introduce themselves
Stephen
Grossberg: An
emerging neural model
of 3D shape, spatial attention, eye movement search, and object
category learning (invited talk)
chair and introduction of Stephen Grossberg:
Christian Freksa
10:30
coffee break (all coffee breaks will be held in the Citrus Courtyard)
11:00
Christian Freksa: On the
relationship between shape, spatial objects, and spatial relations
Andrew Lovett & Kenneth Forbus: Shape is like space: modeling shape
representation as a set of qualitative spatial relations
Sibel
Tari, Bernhard Burgeth, & Ilker Tari: Components
of the shape revisited
chair:
Sven Bertel
12:30
lunch
02:00 Sven
Bertel
&
Thomas Barkowsky:
Is shape special? Ð Scalable mental
representation structures in visuo-spatial reasoning
Peter Khooshabeh & Mary Hegarty:
Representation of shape during
mental
rotation
Andrew T. Stull, Mary Hegarty, & Richard
E.
Mayer:
Anatomy learning with virtual objects
chair:
Madeleine Keehner
assignment to discussion topics and groups
03:30
coffee break
04:00
breakout discussions (2
groups)
report
back for group discussion
05:30
end of sessions
06:00
AAAI opening reception in the Oak Lounge at Tresidder Union
Tuesday,
23
March
2010
09:00
Philip J. Kellman: Visual
perception of contours and objects: segmentation, grouping, and shape (invited talk)
chair and introduction of Phil Kellman:
Sven Bertel
10:30
coffee break
11:00 Lisanne
van
Weelden,
Reinier Cozijn, Alfons Maes,
& Joost Schilperoord:
Perceptual similarity in visual
metaphor
processing
Nina Gaissert, Kirstin Ulrichs, &
Christian
Wallraven:
Visual and haptic perceptual spaces:
from
parametrically-defined to natural objects
Madeleine Keehner & Richard K. Lowe:
Seeing with the hands and with the eyes: the
contributions of haptic cues to anatomical shape recognition in surgery
chair:
Andrew Lovett
12:30
lunch
02:00
wrap-up of Stephen Grossberg's talk & general discussion, chair: Sven Bertel
03:30
coffee break
04:00 William
Regli
&
Joseph Kopena:
Challenges in semantics for computer-aided
designs: a position paper
Sylvan Rudduck & Mary-Anne Williams:
Conceptual ternary diagrams for shape
perception: a preliminary approach
Thomas Wagner: Egocentric
shape representation of landmark configurations based on static and
dynamic
ordering information
chair:
Gabriela Goldschmidt
05:30
end of session
06:00
plenary session at Annenberg Auditorium, Cummings Art Building (until 07:15, speaker for our symposium: Madeleine Keehner)
08:30
joint dinner in downtown Palo
Alto at 'Evvio' (420 Emmerson St, half a block west of University Avenue)
Wednesday,
24
March
2010
09:00
assignment to discussion
topics and groups
breakout discussions (2 groups)
report
back for group discussion
10:30
coffee break
11:00
general discussion, chair: Tony Cohn
12:30
end of symposium