Proceedings of workshops and posters at the 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2017)

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 COSIT 2017 Short Papers—Introduction  (Christian Kray, May Yuan)....Pages 3-4
 Generating Spatial Footprints from Hiking Blogs  (Elise Acheson, Flurina M. Wartmann, Ross S. Purves)....Pages 5-7
 Validating GEOBIA Based Terrain Segmentation and Classification for Automated Delineation of Cognitively Salient Landforms  (Samantha T. Arundel, Gaurav Sinha)....Pages 9-14
 Boundary Based Navigation Is Impaired in Old Age  (Rachel Bhushan, Elisabetta Colombari, Sang Ah Lee)....Pages 15-18
 Distributing Attention Between Environment and Navigation System to Increase Spatial Knowledge Acquisition During Assisted Wayfinding  (Annina Brügger, Kai-Florian Richter, Sara Irina Fabrikant)....Pages 19-22
 Lake District Soundscapes: Analysing Aural Experience Through Text  (Olga Chesnokova , Joanna E. Taylor, Ross S. Purves)....Pages 23-25
 Do Skyscrapers Facilitate Spatial Learning Under Stress? On the Cognitive Processing of Global Landmarks  (Sascha Credé, Sara Irina Fabrikant, Tyler Thrash, Christoph Hölscher)....Pages 27-29
 The Virtual Reconstruction Project of Unavailable Monuments: An Example of the Church of Santa Maria Paganica in L’Aquila  (Giovanni De Gasperis, Silvia Mantini, Alessio Cordisco)....Pages 31-33
 Socio-spatial Networks, Multilingualism, and Language Use in a Rural African Context  (Pierpaolo Di Carlo, Jeff Good, Ling Bian, Yujia Pan, Penghang Liu)....Pages 35-39
 Reactive Obstacle Avoidance for Multicopter UAVs via Evaluation of Depth Maps  (Luca Di Stefano, Eliseo Clementini, Enrico Stagnini)....Pages 41-43
 New and Given Information in Alpine Route Directions  (Ekaterina Egorova)....Pages 45-47
 Defining Spatial Boundaries: A Developmental Study  (Eugenia Gianni, Sang Ah Lee)....Pages 49-55
 Artificial Cognitive Maps: Selecting Heterogeneous Sets of Geographic Objects and Relations to Drive Highly Contextual Task-Oriented Map Views  (Lucas Godfrey, William Mackaness)....Pages 57-62
 Categorizing Cognitive Scales of Spatial Information  (Thomas Hervey, Daniel W. Phillips, Werner Kuhn)....Pages 63-66
 The Concept of Location in Astronomic Spaces  (Fenja Kollasch, Werner Kuhn)....Pages 67-71
 Is Wireless Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) 3D Neuroimaging Feasible to Map Human Navigation in the Real-World?  (Stefania Lancia, Silvia Mammarella, Denise Bianco, Valentina Quaresima)....Pages 73-78
 The Influence of the Web Mercator Projection on the Global-Scale Cognitive Map of Web Map Users  (Lieselot Lapon, Kristien Ooms, Philippe De Maeyer)....Pages 79-82
 Spatial Navigation by Boundaries and Landmarks in Williams Syndrome in a Virtual Environment  (Marilina Mastrogiuseppe, Victor Chukwuemeka Umeh, Sang Ah Lee)....Pages 83-89
 Linked Data for a Digital Earth: Spatial Forecasting with Next Generation Geographical Data  (Marvin Mc Cutchan)....Pages 91-96
 Route Learning from Maps or Navigation in Aging: The Role of Visuo-Spatial Abilities and Self-assessed Visuo-Spatial Inclinations  (Chiara Meneghetti, Veronica Muffato, Rossana De Beni)....Pages 97-99
 Towards Personalized Landmarks  (Eva Nuhn, Sabine Timpf)....Pages 101-103
 Developing and Evaluating VR Field Trips  (Danielle Oprean, Jan Oliver Wallgrün, Jose Manuel Pinto Duarte, Debora Verniz, Jiayan Zhao, Alexander Klippel)....Pages 105-110
 A Reference Landform Ontology for Automated Delineation of Depression Landforms from DEMs  (Gaurav Sinha, Samantha T. Arundel, Kathleen Stewart, David Mark, Torsten Hahmann, Boleslo Romero et al.)....Pages 111-116
 Correspondence Between PLCA and Maptree: Representations of a Space Configuration  (Kazuko Takahashi)....Pages 117-123
 Building Social Networks in Volunteered Geographic Information Communities: What Contributor Behaviours Reveal About Crowdsourced Data Quality  (Quy Thy Truong, Guillaume Touya, Cyril de Runz)....Pages 125-131
 Guiding People Along More Intuitive Indoor Paths  (Nina Vanhaeren, Kristien Ooms, Philippe de Maeyer)....Pages 133-136
 Context and Vagueness in Automated Interpretation of Place Description: A Computational Model  (Diedrich Wolter, Madiha Yousaf)....Pages 137-142
 Modeling Spatio-Temporal Variations for the Language-Driven Development of Simulated Environment Generators  (Liqun Wu, Thomas Brinkhoff, Axel Hahn)....Pages 143-148
Front Matter ....Pages 149-149
 Rethinking Wayfinding Support Systems—Introduction  (Jakub Krukar, Angela Schwering, Heinrich Löwen, Marcelo De Lima Galvao, Vanessa Joy Anacta)....Pages 151-152
 Supporting Orientation During Indoor and Outdoor Navigation  (Christina Bauer, Manuel Müller, Bernd Ludwig, Chen Zhang)....Pages 153-161
 Let’s Put the Skyscrapers on the Display—Decoupling Spatial Learning from Working Memory  (Sascha Credé, Sara Irina Fabrikant)....Pages 163-170
 Finding the Right Match: Human Cognition via Indoor Route Descriptions Versus Existing Indoor Networks and Algorithms to Support Navigation  (Kristien Ooms, Nico Van de Weghe)....Pages 171-177
 Considering Existing Indoor Navigational Aids in Navigation Services  (Wangshu Wang, Haosheng Huang, Georg Gartner)....Pages 179-189
Front Matter ....Pages 191-191
 Speaking of Location: Future Directions in Geospatial Natural Language Research—Introduction  (Kristin Stock, Chris B. Jones, Maria Vasardani)....Pages 193-194
 Socioculturally Mediated Responses to Environment Shaping Universals and Diversity in Spatial Language  (Bill Palmer, Alice Gaby, Jonathon Lum, Jonathan Schlossberg)....Pages 195-205
 Translating Verbally Communicated Local Geographic Knowledge Using Semantic Technologies: A Balinese Example  (Pandu Supriyono, Simon Scheider)....Pages 207-216
 Place as Location Categories: Learning from Language  (Clare Davies, Thora Tenbrink)....Pages 217-225
 Frame-Relative Constructions in the Description of Motion  (Ekaterina Egorova, Ross S. Purves)....Pages 227-233
 When Environmental Information Is Conveyed Using Descriptions: The Role of Perspectives and Strategies  (Chiara Meneghetti, Veronica Muffato)....Pages 235-244
 The Role of Context in the Interpretation of Natural Language Location Descriptions  (Kristin Stock, Mark Hall)....Pages 245-254
 Spatial Prepositions in Natural-Language Descriptions of Indoor Scenes  (Stacy Doore, Kate Beard, Nicholas Giudice)....Pages 255-260
Front Matter ....Pages 261-261
 Spatial Humanities Meets Spatial Information Theory: Space, Place, and Time in Humanities Research—Introduction  (Benjamin Adams, Olga Chesnokova, Karl Grossner)....Pages 263-264
 Exploring Deep Mapping Concepts: Crosthwaite’s Map and West’s Picturesque Stations  (Alexander Reinhold, Christopher Donaldson, Ian Gregory, Paul Rayson)....Pages 265-273
 A Spatio-Temporal Linked Data Representation for Modeling Spatio-Temporal Dialect Data  (Johannes Scholz, Emanual Hrastnig, Eveline Wandl-Vogt)....Pages 275-282
 Considering Identification of Locality in Time: Theoretical and Practical Approach  (Bogumił Szady, Agnieszka Ławrynowicz)....Pages 283-291
 Cadmus and the Cow: A Digital Narratology of Space in Ovid’s Metamorphoses  (Gabriel Viehhauser, Robert Kirstein, Florian Barth, Andreas Pairamidis)....Pages 293-301
Front Matter ....Pages 303-303
 Computing Techniques for Spatio-Temporal Data in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage—Introduction  (Alberto Belussi, Roland Billen, Pierre Hallot, Sara Migliorini)....Pages 305-306
 Immersive Technologies and Experiences for Archaeological Site Exploration and Analysis  (Jan Oliver Wallgrün, Jiawei Huang, Jiayan Zhao, Claire Ebert, Paul Roddy, Jaime Awe et al.)....Pages 307-314
 HBIM for the Archaeology of Standing Buildings: Case Study of the Church of San Cipriano in Castelvecchio Calvisio (L’Aquila, Italy)  (Romolo Continenza, Fabio Redi, Francesca Savini, Alessandra Tata, Ilaria Trizio)....Pages 315-323
 An Analytical Framework for Classifying Software Tools and Systems Dealing with Cultural Heritage Spatio-Temporal Information  (Andrea Luczfalvy Jancsó, Benoît Jonlet, Patrick Hoffsummer, Emmanuel Delye, Roland Billen)....Pages 325-337
 Considering Rich Spatiotemporal Relationships in Cultural Heritage Information Management  (Pierre Hallot)....Pages 339-347
 Towards the Extraction of Semantics from Incomplete Archaeological Records  (S. Migliorini, P. Grossi)....Pages 349-358