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https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-888/SKALID2012_Preface.pdf
Preface
The International Workshop on Spatial Knowledge Acquisition with Limited In-
formation Displays (SKALID 2012) was held August 31, 2012 in Kloster Seeon,
Germany, in conjunction with the biennial interdisciplinary Spatial Cognition
2012 conference. The goal of the SKALID workshop was to bring people togeth-
er across a broad range of disciplines to discuss methodological, technological,
and theoretical concepts, challenges, and techniques related to the design of
limited information displays for use in spatial contexts. Limited information dis-
plays were broadly characterized as any interface which is restricted in its size or
resolution and may encompass auditory, haptic, linguistic, visual, or multimodal
information displays. Of particular interest of this workshop was to solicit per-
spectives that cut across multiple research domains or to leverage established
theories and methods from one field in order to discuss how these approaches
could provide new insights or design guidance for other disciplines.
All SKALID submissions were refereed by 3 members of the workshop’s in-
ternational Program Committee. This team helped ensure that all submissions
were relevant to the workshop, had significant intellectual and scientific merit,
and had clear and coherent exposition of material. Seven papers were accepted
for presentation at the workshop and publication in these proceedings. Profes-
sor Stephen Hirtle from The University of Pittsburg was the keynote speaker.
In addition to summarizing their research, each presenter was asked to pose
provocative or challenging questions about their work or the field more broad-
ly. This allowed for significant time for interactive and fruitful discussion by all
workshop participants.
As is obvious from the submissions, we achieved our interdisciplinary goal.
Accepted papers encompassed researchers from a broad range of disciplines, in-
cluding: Computer Science, Spatial Informatics, Information Systems, Human-
Computer Interaction, Psychology, and others. Topics addressed in these pa-
pers covered a broad range of basic theories, empirical evidence, and inter-
face/hardware design and evaluation, but all were linked by an interest in limited
information displays. A range of visual, non-visual, and multimodal displays were
discussed, with the intended users including both sighted and blind persons. An
important theme evident in many of the papers dealt with what and how spatial
information should be best displayed to meet the needs and tasks of this diverse
user base. The workshop topics varied from selection of environmental variables,
including haptic, linguistic, and visual information sources, to development of
route directions, scene descriptions, and maps which are both usable and cog-
nitively plausible. The use of cameras, augmented reality, and crowd sourcing
techniques to generate and annotate limited information displays on mobile de-
vices was the topic of several papers. Others dealt with similar ideas based on
comparing information visualization techniques or new approaches for generat-
ing dynamic haptic and multimodal maps. Some of the papers advanced new
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theories or approaches, others evaluated the efficacy of specific new techniques
or technologies, and still others performed usability testing and behavioral ex-
periments in order to optimize interface design, insure that the information pro-
vided was perceptually and cognitively valid, or to gauge end-user acceptance.
The scenarios and environments where these limited information displays were
being evaluated, and the tasks aimed to be supported, ranged from perception
and learning of small-scale scenes of rooms, to navigation and cognitive map de-
velopment of multi-level indoor buildings, to learning and navigation of outdoor
environments, to spatial knowledge acquisition at large geographic scales.
We sincerely thank the many people who made SKALID 2012 such a suc-
cess: the Program Committee, the Spatial Cognition Organizing Committee, the
paper contributors, and all the participants present at the workshop.
August 2012 Christian Graf
Nicholas Giudice
Falko Schmid
Organization
SKALID 2012 was jointly organized by the Transregional Collaborative Research
Center SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, at the University of Bremen and the VEMI
Lab, in the Spatial Informatics program, School of Computing and Information
Science, at the University of Maine.
Program Co-Chairs
Christian Graf SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, University of Bremen
christian@maps4vips.info
www.maps4vips.info
Nicholas A. Giudice VEMI Lab, University of Maine
Nicholas.giudice@maine.edu
www.vemilab.org
Falko Schmid SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, University of Bremen
schmid@informatik.uni-bremen.de
www.cosy.informatik.uni-
bremen.de/staff/schmid
Program Committee
Susane Boll Media Informatics, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Old-
enburg
Stephen Hirtle School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
Christoph Hölscher Center for Cognitive Science, Universität Freiburg
Andreas Hub Visualization and Interactive Systems Institute (VIS),
Universität Stuttgart
Alexander Klippel Human Factors in GIScience Lab, Penn State University
Amy Lobben Spatial and Map Cognition Research Lab, Department of
Geography, University of Oregon
Dan Montello Department of Geography, University of California
Martin Pielot Intelligent User Interface Group, OFFIS Oldenburg
Martin Raubal Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH
Zürich
Kai Florian-Richter Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne
Holly Taylor Department of Psychology, Tufts University
Gerhard Weber Chair Human-Computer Interaction, Technische Univer-
sität Dresden
Stephan Winter Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The Universi-
ty of Melbourne
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Editors’ addresses
Christian Graf & Falko Schmid
Cognitive Systems (CoSy)
FB3 - Informatics
Universität Bremen
P.O. Box 330 440
28334 Bremen, Germany
Nicholas Giudice
Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Lab
School of Computing and Information Science, Room 348 Boardman Hall
University of Maine, Orono ME, 04469-5711, USA
Copyright Note
To appear online with CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org, ISSN
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