Spatial Information Theory Meets Spatial Thinking: Is Topology the Rosetta Stone of Spatio-temporal Cognition?

Klippel, Alexander

doi:10.1080/00045608.2012.702481

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“…The participants' category construction behavior of the last two experiments was then compared against 1) results from the first two experiments that did not require participants to create as many groups as possible and 2) categories (modes of overlap) that Galton's approach would differentiate. We were able to show in previous experiments [33] that semantics has an influence on how people conceptualize qualitative spatial relations such as those identified by the RCC and IM models. We therefore used both a semantic and a purely geometric version of the graphical stimuli each (see Figure 1 for an example) leading to the 2 × 2 experiments.…”

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“…Some of these relations are present in the table shown in Figure 2, namely as relations "a", "aa", "c", "d", "dd" and "g" (for a detailed treatment see, for instance, [32]). These theoretical topology-based distinctions have been extensively analyzed and investigated in behavioral studies [33], [34], [35]. Galton's approach can be seen as an extension of Egenhofer's intersection matrix that allows for a more differentiated categorization of topological relations.…”

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Investigating intuitive granularities of overlap relations

Wallgrün

Yang

Klippel

2013

2013 IEEE 12th International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing

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Abstract-We present four human behavioral experiments to address the question of intuitive granularities in fundamental spatial relations as they can be found in formal spatial calculi that focus on invariant characteristics under certain (especially topological) transformations. Of particular interest to this article is the concept of two spatially extended entities overlapping each other. The overlap concept has been extensively treated in Galton's mode of overlap calculus [1]. In the first two experiments, we used a category construction task to calibrate this calculus against behavioral data and found that participants adopted a very coarse view on the concept of overlap, only distinguishing between three general relations: proper part, overlap, and non-overlap. In the following two experiments, we changed the instructions to explicitly address the possibility that humans could be swayed to adopt a more detailed level of granularity, that is, we encouraged them to create as many meaningful groups as possible. The results show that the three relations identified earlier (overlap, nonoverlap, and proper part) are very robust and a natural level of granularity across all four experiments but that contextual factors gain more influence at finer levels of granularity.

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Investigating intuitive granularities of overlap relations

Wallgrün

Yang

Klippel

2013

2013 IEEE 12th International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing

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“…SLAM methods which consider the space within which a robot is located to be a topological space are known as topological SLAM methods and the resulting models are known as topological maps. It has been confirmed by experiments both in psychology and geographical information science that the most fundamental properties of an environment which the human cognition models are topological [13]. Therefore designing SLAM methods which are cognitively adequate with respect to such properties represents an important research goal and is the focus of this paper.…”

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Cognitively adequate topological robot localization and mapping

Corcoran

Bertolotto

Leonard

2014

Proceedings of the Sixth ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Indoor Spatial Awareness - ISA '14

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Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a fundamental problem in the field of robotics which concerns mapping an environment or space while simultaneously localizing within this map. Given that one of the major goals of robotics is to perform tasks commonly performed by humans, we argue that SLAM methods should be cognitively adequate; that is, they should model the same properties of a space as the human cognition models. Topological properties are considered the most fundamental of those modelled by the human cognition. Therefore in order to achieve cognitive adequacy such properties must be modelled explicitly. Research in the domain of spatial cognition has demonstrated that the topological properties modelled by the human cognition can be quantified using the Egenhofer Nine-Intersection Model (9-IM). In this work we propose a conceptual SLAM method which models the same properties as the 9-IM. Relative to existing topological SLAM methods, which model a single topological property of connectivity between locations, this method achieves a stronger degree of cognitive adequacy.

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“…A promising approach towards achieving this goal proposes to model the aspects of spatial relationships which the human cognition models. This has led to the use of the term cognitively adequate to describe a set of spatial relations which are believed to be an accurate model of these aspects [32,33]. Initial studies focused on the role topological relations play in defining cognitively adequate models.…”

Section: Spatial Relationsmentioning

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“…However a study by Shariff et al [22] suggests that topological relations alone may not be sufficient for cognitive adequacy; the authors propose that a combination of topological and metric relations are necessary. The recent work of Klippel [33] suggests that semantics must also be considered if one wishes to define a set of spatial relations which are cognitively adequate.…”

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Spatial Relations Using High Level Concepts

Corcoran

Mooney

Bertolotto

2012

IJGI

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Existing models of spatial relations do not consider that different concepts exist on different levels in a hierarchy and in turn that the spatial relations in a given scene are a function of the specific concepts considered. One approach to determining the existence of a particular spatial relation is to compute the corresponding high level concepts explicitly using map generalization before inferring the existence of the spatial relation in question. We explore this idea through the development of a model of the spatial relation "enters" that may exist between a road and a housing estate.

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Spatial Information Theory Meets Spatial Thinking: Is Topology the Rosetta Stone of Spatio-temporal Cognition?

Cited by 24 publications

References 45 publications

Investigating intuitive granularities of overlap relations

Investigating intuitive granularities of overlap relations

Cognitively adequate topological robot localization and mapping

Spatial Relations Using High Level Concepts

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