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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND PAPERS
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WORKSHOP ON SPACE SYNTAX AND SPATIAL COGNITION

http://www.space.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/sc06/

To be held at Spatial Cognition '06, 24-28 September 2006
Universität Bremen, Germany
http://www.sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de/SC06/

Contributions are invited of either short papers (2000 words) or long papers (7000 words) that 
link space syntax and spatial cognition.

Topics may include but are not limited to:

* How can the cognitive processes of individual users be addressed by space syntax?
* How should space syntax methods be adapted to make the transition from the social/group level 
to individual cognition?
* Does space syntax help us to better understand the cognitive import of physical properties of 
the environment like complexity, visibility, legibility, intelligibility?
* What is the correspondence between Space Syntax measures and cognitive processes?
* Can we map concepts such as "intelligibility" to cognitive processes or human memory?
* How can network effects be separated from psychological effects?
* Can spatial cognition reveal the "non-discursive" features of the design process?

Please use the Springer LNCS format for your submission. Papers should be emailed in PDF format 
to Christoph Hölscher (hoelsch [at] cognition.uni-freiburg.de). Please do *not* include author 
information on the paper, and instead supply your contact details separately in your email.

Papers will be refereed by the workshop programme committee below, and published as an SFB/
TR 8 monograph. In addition, there is a possibility of a special issue journal publication depending 
on the quality of the submissions.

Participants who do not wish to present are asked to send in short position papers/statements of 
interest.

Key dates:

    * 16 July 2006: Deadline for workshop papers
    * 11 August 2006: Notification of acceptance of workshop papers
    * 20 August 2006: Early bird registration deadline
    * 24-28 September 2006: Conference

Workshop Chairs:

Bill Hillier, Christoph Hölscher, Ruth Conroy Dalton, Alasdair Turner

International Workshop Programme Committee:

    * Denis Doxtater (U. Arizona)
    * Gerald Franz (MPI Biocybernetics, Tübingen)
    * Saif Haq (TexasTech)
    * Ben Kuipers (Austin)
    * Alan Penn (UCL London)
    * John Peponis (Georgia Institute of Technology)
    * Juval Portugali (Tel Aviv University)
    * Martin Raubal (Universität Münster)
    * Roy Ruddle (U. Leeds)
    * Barbara Tversky (Stanford)
    * Jan Wiener (College de France, Paris)
    * Jean Wineman (U. of Michigan)
    * Craig Zimring (Georgia Institute of Technology)

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Dr Ruth Conroy Dalton
Room 334
The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies
University College London
1-19 Torrington Place
London WC1E 6BT
Tel. +44 20 7679 5924
Fax +44 20 7916 1887
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