This workshop was held in conjunction with the 2015 Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2015) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA on October 12th, 2015. Copyright © 2016 for the individual papers by the papers' authors. Copying permitted for private and academic purposes. This volume is published and copyrighted by its editors.
This volume consists of an introductory paper about the Teaching Spatial Thinking from Interdisciplinary Perspectives (TSTIP2015) Initiative from which the COSIT 2015 workshop was developed, followed by six papers from the workshop itself. For more information about the TSTIP Initiative and the COSIT workshop, please see the Linked Science.org website at: http://linkedscience.org/events/spatialthinking2015/
The editors would like to thank the COSIT 2015 organizers, authors of these proceedings, and the participants of the workshop.
February 2016 The editors
TABLE OF CONTENTS Teaching Spatial Thinking from Interdisciplinary Perspective Workshop …. Pg. 1 – 5 Crowdsourcing Spatial Thinking Resources across Disciplines and Educational Contexts …………………………………………………………………..... Pg. 6 – 10 Teaching Spatial Thinking, Computer Vision, and Qualitative Reasoning Methods ……………………………………………………………………………... Pg. 11 – 15 Exploration of "What-If” Scenarios: A Prototype for Research Buildings at Stanford's School of Medicine ……………………………………………………….. Pg. 16 – 20 Teaching the Complexities of Map Boundaries …………………………... Pg. 21 – 24 Thinking about Spatial Computing ……………………………………….. Pg. 25 – 28 Spatial Thinking and GIS …………………………………………………. Pg. 29 – 35 Teaching Spatial Thinking: Perspectives from Cognitive Psychology ……………………………………………………………………………... Pg. 36 – 44 TSTIP2015 Chairs Heather Burte Tomi Kauppinen Mary Hegarty