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Conferences and More

May 8, 2012 (Submission Deadline)  Call for papers: 26th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, Institute for Creative Technologies in Playa Vista, California, USA, July 16-18, 2012. More info:

May 11, 2012 (Submission Deadline)  Call for papers: International workshop on Place‐related Knowledge Acquisition Research (PKAR) (in conjunction with Spatial Cognition 2012). More info:

May 31, 2012 (Submission Deadline)  Roeper Review: Special Issue: Visual-Spatial Talent (Guest Editor: Dr. M. Layne Kalbfleisch):
Visual-spatial talent is a special dimension of human ability ascending in importance and well-supported in today's image-drenched, technology-driven environment. We invite articles on various aspects of this topic, from the biological bases for visual thinking, to its psychological dynamics, to the role it plays in dual exceptionalities, to instructional strategies or technological applications that can enhance its strength and utility. Empirical and conceptual articles will be considered.

For more information contact:
Dr. M. Layne Kalbfleisch, Guest Editor, KIDLAB, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study & College of Education and Human Development George Mason University phone: (703) 993-3516, email: mkalbfle [at] gmu [dot] edu. http://krasnow.gmu.edu/kidlab.

July 16-18, 2012 26th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, Institute for Creative Technologies in Playa Vista, California, USA, July 16-18, 2012. More info:

July 20-22, 2012 4th Biennial Conference, International Society for the Psychology of Science and Technology (ISPST), Pittsburgh, PA. Conference website: http://www.ispstonline.org/.

August 3-4, 2012 The ACM Symposium on Applied Perception [ACM SAP (formerly known as APGV)], co-located with Siggraph 2012 in Los Angeles.

August 28-30, 2012 Embodied and Situated Language Processing (ESLP) 2012 Conference, Newcastle Upon Tyne. Conference Website: http://eslp.cocolab.org/

August 31, 2012 International workshop on Place‐related Knowledge Acquisition Research (PKAR) (in conjunction with Spatial Cognition 2012). More info: .

August 31-September 3, 2012 Announcing SKALID: Spatial Knowledge Acquisition using Low Information Displays, a workshop  organized by Dr. Falko Schmid, Dr. Nicholas Giudice, and Christian Graf, to be held in conjunction with the upcoming Spatial Cognition 2012 conference in Germany (Aug 31-Sept 3). For more details, see the CFP and other specifics from the workshop website: http://maps4vips.info/skalid/

August 31-September 3, 2012 Spatial Cognition 2012 (SC 2012), Abbey "Kloster Seeon" in Bavaria, Germany. More information: http://www.spatial-cognition.de/sc2012 .

About Spatial Cognition 2012:  Spatial Cognition 2012 (SC 2012) will bring together researchers working on spatial cognition, biological inspired systems, spatial learning, communication, robotics, and perception. The conference is single-track and the final program will be the result of a selective review process. The program will include invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. The main conference will be preceded by one day of workshops and tutorials. Every effort is being made to keep conference expenses affordable, particularly for student attendees. All papers presented at the conference will be published by Springer.

September 1, 2012 (Submission Deadline) Call for short research reports on spatial thinking: Thomas F. Shipley and Dedre Gentner (Co-PI) will be guest editing a special issue of Cognitive Processing on "Spatial learning and reasoning processes". The special issue will have target articles on development of spatial thinking, assessing representations and processing of complex spatial relations, and the role of spatial thinking in science education. We are soliciting short research reports to be included in this volume. Reports should be less than 1000 words with no more than one figure. Submissions are due September 1, 2012. All reports will be reviewed in a single-step review process with an up or down decision by November 15, 2012, with final drafts due December 15, 2012. Please direct questions and send complete manuscripts to Thomas F. (Tim) Shipley at tshipley [at] temple [dot] edu.

September 4-8, 2012 5th International Conference on Spatial Cognition: Space and Embodied Cognition (ICSC2012). Rome. First deadline is October 31, 2011.  More information:  Call for submissions    ICSC2012 Poster

Other Information on: Classes / Conferences / Meetings / Workshops

A past workshop:

November 6-8, 2008 Washington, D.C.: A Workshop on Spatial Learning in Geography: A Cross-Community Conversation.

For more information about this workshop and to retrieve workshop documents, go to:
WORKSHOP    Up-dated on 1/08-09/2009.

Talks & Lecture Series