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<h1 style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Spatial Cognition 2018: Call for Papers</h1>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The <strong>Spatial Cognition Conference 2018 (SC 2018) will be held in Tuebingen, Germany, 5-8 September 2018</strong>. Spatial Cognition is a transdisciplinary conference that will bring
together researchers working on a diverse set of topics using a plethora of methods addressing, for example, biologically inspired systems, spatial learning, communication, interaction, robotics, perception or place. In the finest tradition of fostering transdisciplinary
exchange, the conference is organized as a single-track. The final program and the associated proceedings will be the result of a selective review process and will include invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed submissions. The
main conference will be accompanied by one day of workshops and tutorials, poster presentation sessions, as well as a doctoral student session. Every effort is being made to keep conference expenses affordable, particularly for student attendees. Papers presented
at the conference will be published Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.</p>
<h2 style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Organization</h2>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">General Chair:</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Prof Alexander Klippel, The Pennsylvania State University</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Program Co-Chairs:</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Prof Sarah Creem-Regehr, The University of Utah, USA<br>
Prof Johannes Schöning, University Bremen, Germany</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Local Organization:</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Prof Hanspeter Mallot, University of Tübingen, Germany<br>
Prof Heinrich Bülthoff, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany<br>
Dr. Tobias Meilinger, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Workshop and Tutorial Chair:<br>
Dr. Heather Burte, Tufts University, USA</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Doctoral Colloquium Chair:<br>
Dr. a/prof Liz Chrastil, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA</p>
<h2 style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Keynotes</h2>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Prof. Nira Liberman, The Gershon G. Gordon Tel Aviv University, Israel</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Prof. Willian H. Warren, Brown University, USA</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Prof. Luc van Gool, ETH Zurich, Switzerland</p>
<h2 style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Conference Topics</h2>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Papers containing original and unpublished work are solicited in all areas of spatial cognition, including (but not limited to) the following:</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Development of spatial knowledge<br>
* Spatial education and learning<br>
* Aging and spatial performance<br>
* Spatial language and communication<br>
* Spatial problem solving and reasoning<br>
* Spatial assistance systems and applications<br>
* Geospatial information science and systems<br>
* Representations and processing of spatial information<br>
* Virtual and augmented spaces<br>
* Biology-inspired agents<br>
* Robotic and human localization, navigation, way finding<br>
* Mapping and exploration<br>
* Motion and path planning<br>
* Learning for robotic Systems<br>
* Human-Robot Interaction<br>
* spatial interaction and collaboration</p>
<h2 style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Important Dates and Details</h2>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Location:<strong> </strong></p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tuebingen, Germany</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dates:</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Workshops: September 5th 2018</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Main conference: September 6th to September 8th 2018</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sites.psu.edu/sc2018/">http://sites.psu.edu/sc2018/</a></p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Submission deadlines:</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-- Workshops and tutorials: November 31st, 2017 (see website for details)</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-- Full Papers: February 2nd, 2018</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-- Notification for full papers: March 23rd, 2018</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-- Posters (abstracts): March 31st, 2018</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-- Notification for posters: May 1st, 2018</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-- Doctoral Colloquium: tba</p>
<h2 style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Information for Authors</h2>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Full paper track: All papers submitted will be thoroughly peer reviewed by a minimum of three members of the international program committee. A selection of high quality papers will be accepted
for both presentation at the conference and published as Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence by Springer. It is essential that manuscripts must describe original work that has neither been published nor should it currently be under review in a different
outlet. The language of the conference, including the proceedings, is English and papers should be written in an acceptable style. Papers need to be formatted according to Springer Lecture Note Style and paper length should not exceed 15 pages. For more details
refer to the formatting instructions below.</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posters: Poster submissions in form of extended abstracts are welcome to showcase work in progress, polished ideas, or emerging themes. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words and should be
formatted in the same way as full papers (see below). Poster abstracts will be made available as unpublished poster proceedings.</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Proceedings: Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence</p>
<h3 style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Submission Information</h3>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>Submission for review.</strong> Spatial Cognition 2018 is using easy chair as its conference management system. Formatted papers should be submitted as PDF through the corresponding
website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spatialcognition2018">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spatialcognition2018</a></p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Final submission. Accepted papers that have undergone revisions should be submitted through easy chair.</p>
<h3 style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Formatting Instructions (all submissions)</h3>
<p style="font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Formatting instructions for all submissions (full paper, poster, workshop proposals, and doctoral colloquium) are following Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Detailed instructions
can be found on the corresponding <a href="http://www.springer.com/us/computer-science/lncs">Springer Website</a>.</p>
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<div>Sarah Creem-Regehr</div>
<div>Professor</div>
<div>Department of Psychology</div>
<div>University of Utah</div>
<div>Salt Lake City, UT 84112 </div>
<div>www.psych.utah.edu/sarahcreemregehr</div>
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