Call for Contributions. Design, cognition & behavior: Usability in the built environment
15.09.2014, Bremen Germany
Workshop held at SC2014
http://conference.spatial-cognition.de/SC2014/node/39
Goals of workshop
The workshop examines individual spatial cognition of the built environment from the perspective of the user and the designer. It aims to bring together researchers interested in how people behave in the built environment, using both psycho-physical and agent-based approaches.
The workshop aims to bring together researchers using different approaches in order to discuss design cognition of the built environment. Currently, various techniques and tools are being used for analysing and simulating how individuals interact with their environment, either through linking the structure of the environment with user behaviour (through spatial analysis techniques eg. space syntax), or by simulating different levels of human cognition using automated sensorimotor systems (agent-based methods). The analysis of how individuals and groups use the built environment feeds directly into evidence-based design. Both virtual and real world experiments can be used, as well as hybrid environments, which combine elements of both. Running virtual agents through models of the environment allows for an in-depth analysis of how people might move around such a space in the real world. The level and nature of the cognitive input that such agents might have is a topic of discussion for the workshop.
Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Spatial cognition from the designer's perspective e.g., how does a designer anticipate the usage of a building, how does a designer imagine the user's perspective (perceptual, cognitive and behavioural perspective); how can technical tools support such processes in design?
The role of agent-based simulations for understanding spatial behaviour
Methods for developing cognitive agent models including evolutionary and learning agent architecture
Computational and theoretical models of embodied cognition
How research on design cognition might inform evidence-based design
Methods and findings from the user perspective on natural movement, wayfinding and navigation in the built environment
Environmental modelling techniques to predict or postdict different patterns of pedestrian movement incl. but not limited to space syntax methods
Contributions
Participants are invited to present short papers of 2-4 pages. These can present preliminary findings, or work in progress, or position statements. In addition, participants are invited to submit an abstract for a poster presentation. Contributions will be peer-reviewed by an interdisciplinary review-committee, and published as electronic proceedings.
All submissions should be formatted according to Springer LNCS guidelines (see website) and should be sent via email to [log in to unmask]
Key dates
Abstract submission 29.06.2014
Camera-ready paper submission 27.07.2014
Notification of acceptance 15.08.2014
Workshop 15.09.2014
Advisory Committee
Katerina Alexiou, Open University
David Brown, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Ruth Conroy Dalton, Northumbria University
Andy Dong, The University of Sydney
Christoph Hölscher, ETH Zürich
Alan Penn, University College London
Theodore Zamenopoulos, Open University
Organizers
Beatrix Emo · Kinda Al-Sayed · Tasos Varoudis
Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL
Contact
Beatrix Emo, [log in to unmask]
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