George
Furnas presents a series of important research areas on his
home page, including links to relevant papers, which are worth
reviewing for this seminar.
Overview.
You are welcome to participate in one of two ways, either informally or for
credit. Those taking it for credit will be required to make a presentation
during the term and write a short summary paper on the topic of your
choosing at the end of the term. Those attending informally may or may not
present, depending on your level of interest.
This is a research, and not a doctoral, seminar. As such, it will be less
structured. PhD students may count up to two research seminars towards the
seminar requirement for the degree.
Some of the issues that we might discuss include:
Navigating the WWW
Data structures for distributed GIS systems
Navigation for blind
Structure of cognitive maps
Articles that we might review include:
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JEP:HPP, 1995, v21:
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The Cerebral Hemispheres and Neural Network Simulations: Design
Considerations by Norman D. Cook, Hansruedi FrAduh, and Thedi Landis
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On Computational Evidence for Different Types of Spatial Relations
Encoding: Reply to Cook et al. (1995) by Stephen M. Kosslyn, Christopher F.
Chabris, Chad J.
Marsolek, Robert A. Jacobs, and Olivier Koenig
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Cowin & Hellige (1994) J of Cog Neuro: Categorical vs. coordinate spatial
processing
- Special issue of IJHCS