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Workshop
Adaptation in Spatial Communication
http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~mtomko/Adaptation09/
to be held in conjunction with AGILE 2009, Hannover, Germany
on 2 June 2009
Automated assistance (e.g., car navigation systems and internet route
planners) is an ever-growing market and the richness of available
spatial data sets (commercial, governmental or volunteered) has
increased dramatically. However, the identification and presentation of
the relevant data to humans remains relatively crude, often based on
ad-hoc observations and vague assumptions about the users' needs.
Spatial communication is a type of pragmatic communication, taking a
variety of forms–from verbal or pictorial descriptions and depictions to
instructions for agents about actions required to interact with their
environment. People adapt their communication in form and content to the
situation and communication partner dynamically during communication by
reacting to changing situations. Today’s spatial assistance systems lack
this flexibility–a message is communicated without adaptation to the
user’s needs. Consequently, such systems are experienced as awkward,
cognitively inadequate or patronizing.
The workshop aims at issues and open questions in adaptation in human
spatial communication and consequences and emerging principles for
human–machine spatial communication. The workshop explicitly addresses
all modalities of communication, namely verbal, graphical, by gestures,
and any combination thereof. Any contribution in the research cycle from
theory and fundamental empirical results to algorithmization and
(prototypical) implementation to empirical evaluation is welcome, but
the key interest is in exploring the avenues to improve automatic
processes that implement adaptive behavior in assistance systems and
services.
Accepted contributions will be published as a technical report of the
SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition report series
<http://www.sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de/reports.htm>. We also plan for a
special issue in a journal with selected contributions.
Important dates
09 March 09 Deadline for paper submission
13 April 09 Notification of acceptance
15 April 09 Early registration deadline AGILE
02 June 09 Workshop day at AGILE
For additional information and the submission guidelines please visit
the workshop's website at http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~mtomko/Adaptation09/
Workshop organizers:
Martin Tomko, University of Zurich
Kai-Florian Richter, University of Bremen
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Martin Tomko
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Geographic Information Systems Division
Department of Geography
University of Zurich - Irchel
Winterthurerstr. 190
CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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site: http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~mtomko
mob: +41-788 629 558
tel: +41-44-6355256
fax: +41-44-6356848
