<div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Extended Call for Papers</span></b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1.55pt">SPATIAL COGNITION 2020 (SC 2020)</span></b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><a href="http://sc2020.lu.lv/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:blue">http://sc2020.lu.lv/</span></a></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1.55pt"> </span></b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia,<br>August 26-28, 2020</span></b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Spatial Cognition</span></b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> is concerned with the acquisition, development, representation, organization, and use of knowledge about spatial objects in real, virtual or hybrid environments and processed by human or artificial agents. Spatial Cognition includes research from fields such as cognitive and developmental psychology, linguistics, computer science, geography, cartography, philosophy, neuroscience, and education. The conference is single-track, and the final program will be the result of a selective review process. The program will include oral and poster presentations of refereed papers, symposia and keynote talks.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1.55pt">KEYNOTES:<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><br><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Sara I. Fabrikant (Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland)<br>Steve Franconeri (Cognitive Science, Design, Northwestern University, USA)<br>Laure Rondi-Reig (Neuroscience, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><br></span></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1.55pt">PROGRAM COMMITTEE:</span></b><strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></span></strong></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45);text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1.55pt">CO-CHAIRS:<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></span></strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Prof. Nora Newcombe (Psychology, USA), Prof. Jurgis Skilters (Cognitive Science, Computing Science, Latvia), Prof. David Uttal (Psychology, Education, USA)</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45);text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1.55pt">MEMBERS:</span></strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom:0cm"><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline">Thomas Barkowsky (Computing Science, Germany)</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline">Ģirts Burgmanis (Geography, Latvia)</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline">Claus-Christian Carbon (Psychology, Design, Germany)</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline">Kenny Coventry (Psychology, UK)</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline">Christian Freksa (Computing Science, Germany)</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline">Michael Glanzberg (Philosophy, Cognitive Science, USA)</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline">Rob Goldstone (Psychology, USA)</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline">Alex Klippel (Geography, Psychology, USA)</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline">Barbara Landau (Psychology, USA)</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline">Suzi Lima (Psycholinguistics, Anthropology, Canada)</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline">Tim McNamara (Psychology, USA)</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline">Pritty Patel-Grosz (Linguistics, Norway)</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline">Baingio Pinna (Psychology, Arts, Italy)</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline">Aina Puce (Neuroscience, USA)</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline">Leo Selavo (Computing Science, Latvia)</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline">Jose Sotello (Psychology, USA)</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline">Mike Stieff (Chemistry, Education, Psychology, USA)</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline">Daina Taimiņa (Mathematics, USA)</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline">Cees van Leeuwen (Neuroscience, Belgium)</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline">Līga Zariņa (Mathematics, Geoscience, Cognitive Science, Latvia)</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline">Mila Vulchanova (Psychology, Linguistics, Norway)</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline">Yoad Winter (Linguistics, The Netherlands)</span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline">Joost Zwarts (Linguistics, The Netherlands)</span><br><br><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1.55pt">LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45);text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1.55pt">GENERAL CHAIR:<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">Prof. Guntis Arnicāns (Computing Science, University of Latvia)<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1.55pt">.<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span><strong>CO-CHAIRS:<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></strong></span>Dr. Līga Zariņa (Mathematics, Geoscience, Cognitive Science, University of Latvia), Kaspars Čikste (Finance Management & Coordination, Faculty of Computing, University of Latvia)</span><br><br><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45);text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1.55pt">MEMBERS:</span></strong></li></ul><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">Nora Bērziņa (Statistics, University of Latvia)<br>Vice-Rector Dr. Agrita Kiopa (Riga Stradins University, Latvia)<br>Prof. Leo Selavo (Computing Science, University of Latvia)<br>Liene Viļuma (Information Science, University of Latvia)<br>Jeļena Poļakova (Communication Science, University of Latvia)<br>Rihards Rūmnieks (Computing Science, University of Latvia)<br>Maija Kāle (Computing Science, Latvia)<br>Dace Šostaka (Linguistics, Computing Science, University of Latvia)</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><br><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Institutional partner: </span></span><a href="https://www.rsu.lv/en" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,122,204)">Riga Stradins University</span></a><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> (</span><a href="https://www.rsu.lv/en" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:blue">https://www.rsu.lv/en</span></a><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">)</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><br><br></span><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45);text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1.55pt">SUBMISSIONS:</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)"></span></b></p><ol style="margin-bottom:0cm"><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">Submissions for Oral Presentations presenting original and unpublished work are solicited in all areas of spatial cognition. Authors may choose to submit in either one of two ways.</span></li><ol style="margin-bottom:0cm"><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">For inclusion in an edited volume (Springer Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series of Spatial Cognition volumes: </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><a href="https://www.springer.com/series/1244" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,122,204)">https://www.springer.com/series/1244</span></a></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">). For an overview see: </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><a href="http://bscc.spatial-cognition.de/node/6" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,122,204)">http://bscc.spatial-cognition.de/node/6</span></a></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">). Short papers submitted for inclusion in the conference book published by Springer should be 12-17 pages in length. If accepted, reviewer comments will be sent to allow for revision for publication.</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">Short papers not aimed at book publication should not exceed 1,200 words (including figures, tables, and references). Some short paper submissions may be accepted for poster presentation.</span></li></ol><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">Submissions for Poster Presentations (abstracts) are solicited in all areas of spatial cognition. Poster abstracts should not exceed 500 words (including figures, tables, and references).</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">Submissions for Symposia or Workshops. Symposia or workshops may be scheduled on Tuesday, August 25, in parallel with the two satellite conferences. To organize a symposium, please send a 500-word overview, and then follow the rules for short papers. To organize a workshop, please submit a proposal not to exceed 1200 words.<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></span></li></ol><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 21pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">All submissions must be written in English, formatted according to</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><a href="http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,122,204)"> Springer LNAI formatting guidelines</span></a></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)"> , and submitted by <b>March 15, 2020</b> via the </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sc2020" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,122,204)">EasyChair submission webpage</span></a></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">. Authors should consult Springer’s </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><a href="ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/svproc/guidelines/Springer_Guidelines_for_Authors_of_Proceedings.pdf" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,122,204)">authors’ guidelines</span></a></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)"> and use their proceedings templates, either for </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><a href="ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/llncs2e.zip" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;paddin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0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span>(co-hosted by Riga Stradins University)</span></li><li><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">Conference on Sensor Technologies and Distributed Systems</span></b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span>(co-hosted with EDI institute).</span></li></ul><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 21pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)"><br></span></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 21pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)"><br></span></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 21pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">Satellite Conference on Medical Data Visualisation</span></b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span>(co-hosted by Riga Stradins University)</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 21pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">As a satellite event for Spatial Cognition 2020 we are interested in discussing the challenges, possibilities of medical data visualization. Contributions referring to variety of formats of medical data are welcome.</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom:0cm"><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">Contributions referring to following areas (but not limited to) are welcome:</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">Visuo-spatial abilities and skills in visualisations</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">Visuo-spatial tasks in diagnostics</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">Computational simulations, neural network and hybrid approaches to visualisations</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">Real-time visualizations</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">Expert knowledge in visualisations</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">Patients’ perception of visualizations</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">Visualizing big data</span></li></ul><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 21pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">All submissions to Medical Data Visualization Conference are taking place via SC2020 EasyChair platform. When submitting, please indicate (right after the title of submission) that this is a paper intended for Medical Data Visualisation Conference.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 21pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">Satellite Conference on Applied Artificial Spatial Cognition</span></b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span>(co-hosted with EDI institute).</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 21pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">In this full-day event, the participants will have the opportunity to demonstrate their applied research results in the field of spatial cognition through presentations and demonstrations. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers implementing spatial cognition concepts in such rapidly changing fields as:</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom:0cm"><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">Artificial intelligence and machine vision for spatial cognition</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">Robotics and smart industrial systems</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">Self-driving vehicles with spatial awareness</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">Other fields related to artificial agents and human-computer interaction</span></li></ul><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 21pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">In addition to oral presentations/short papers, participants are welcome to apply for practical demonstrations of their research.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 21pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">As with the main conference, submissions for oral presentations are solicited in the form of short papers presenting original and unpublished work matching the scope of applied spatial cognition in artificial agents. These short papers should not exceed 1,200 words (including figures, tables, and references). All submissions are taking place via SC2020 EasyChair platform. When submitting, indicate (right after the title of submission) that this is a paper intended for the track of Applied Artificial Spatial Cognition.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 21pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">A selection of best short paper submissions will be offered an opportunity to submit a full article for publication in a special issue of Journal “Automatic Control and Computer Sciences” (<a href="https://www.springer.com/journal/11950">https://www.springer.com/journal/11950</a>).</span></p><p style="margin:35.35pt 0cm 17.7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45);text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1.55pt">IMPORTANT DATES:</span></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 21pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">Submission deadline<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></span></b><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:red">(individual papers)</span></b><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">:</span></b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)"> </span><s><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:red">February 1, 2020</span></s><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:red">, March 15</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 21pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:red">Submission of symposia:</span></b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:red"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span>March 15.</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)"><br><b>Notification of paper acceptance:</b> April 15,  2020<br><b>Camera-ready copies of papers:</b>  May 15, 2020<br><b>Early registration ends:</b> July 1, 2020</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:0.55pt">CONTACTS</span></b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><br><br></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,45,45)">Please address all correspondence regarding the organization of the conference to the conference email address: </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><a href="mailto:info@sc2020.lu.lv" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">info@sc2020.lu.lv</span></b></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"></span></p><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div>