Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space

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D.M. Mark, Andrew U. Frank
Springer Science & Business Media, 30/11/1991 - 519 páginas
This book contains twenty-eight papers by participants in the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on "Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space," held in Las Navas del Maxques, Spain, July 8-20, 1990. The NATO ASI marked a stage in a two-year research project at the U. S. National Center for Geographic Infonnation and Analysis (NCOIA). In 1987, the U. S. National Science Foundation issued a solicitation for proposals to establish the NCGIA-and one element of that solicitation was a call for research on a "fundamental theory of spatial relations". We felt that such a fundamental theory could be searched for in mathematics (geometry, topology) or in cognitive science, but that a simultaneous search in these two seemingly disparate research areas might produce novel results. Thus, as part of the NCGIA proposal from a consortium consisting of the University of California at Santa Barbara, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the University of Maine, we proposed that the second major Research Initiative (two year, multidisciplinary research project) of the NCOIA would address these issues, and would be called "Languages of Spatial Relations" The grant to establish the NCOIA was awarded to our consortium late in 1988.
 

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Geographic Space
7
11 Geographic Space as a Set of Concrete Geographical Entities
9
The Relationship Between their Practical Application and their Theoretical Evolution
35
13 A HandinGlove Paradigm for Geography
45
Cultural Influences on the Conceptualization of Geographic Space
51
A View of Space from an Anthropological Perspective
53
22 Culture as Input and Output of the CognitiveLinguistic Processes
65
23 Dialogic and Argumentative Structures of Bumper Stickers
71
43 An Approach to MapTest Interrelationships
285
44 Spatial Knowledge for Image Understanding
295
Formal Treatment of Space in Mathematics
309
51 The Mathematical Modeling of Spatial and NonSpatial Information in Geographic Information Systems
313
52 Map Algebra as a Spatial Language
351
53 Qualitative Spatial Reasoning
361
The 2D Case
373
55 Matching Representations of Geographic Locations
387

Wayfinding and Spatial Cognition
77
31 The Development of the Abilities Required to Understand Spatial Representations
81
Review of Cognitive and Linguistic Knowledge for Personal Navigation with a New Research Direction
117
The Need for a New Approach
137
34 The Effect of the Pattern of the Environment on Spatial Knowledge Acquisition
167
35 Methods for Measuring Spatial Cognition
185
III
219
Cartographic Perspectives
235
Review and Comment
237
The View from Semiotics
263
56 The Role of Modal Logics in the Description of a Geographical Information System
403
User Interfaces and HumanComputer Interaction
415
61 A Formalization of Metaphors and ImageSchemas in User Interfaces
419
62 Elicitation of Spatial Language to Support CrossCultural Geographic Information Systems
435
A Layer Based Model For A GIS User Interface
449
64 Deficiencies of SQL as a GIS Query Language
475
65 The Role of the User in Generalization within Geographic Information Systems
491
66 Virtual Worlds Inside and Out
505
NATO Advanced Study Institute Participants
513
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