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Varenius Initiatives (1995-1999) (1999)
This meeting of multi-disciplinary researchers (Santa Barbara, CA, February 1999) explored the integration and problems associated with multiple modalities and multiple frames of reference, as represented in spatial language and human decision making. Modality themes included learning environments via maps, navigation, and virtual navigation; tactile, auditory, and visual localization and navigation; and learning environments from spatial descriptions. Reference frames under consideration included relative, intrinsic, and absolute reference frames for describing locations; orientation-free vs. orientation-specific representations; heads-up and north-up maps in navigation systems; mixing gaze, route, and survey perspectives in descriptions; expressing differing modalities or frames through language; and cross-cultural differences in the use of reference frames. This report summarizes the discussions and plenary presentation, and presents a set of research questions for further investigation.
    Cover page: Multiple Modalities and Multiple Frames of Reference for Spatial Knowledge, Final Report
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    NCGIA Technical Reports (1989)
    This report highlights a trio of research papers presented at the First Vehicle Navigation and Information System Conference (VNIS ’89), in Toronto, Canada on September 11-13, 1989. The conference consisted of fifteen paper sessions, including Programs and Policy, System and Technology Evaluation, Driver Response to Real-time Traffic Information, Digital Maps and Geographic Information Systems, Traffic Management Applications, and Human Factors. The papers reproduced here are intended to assist others in the study of human navigation, navigation systems, or spatial cognition in general. Their content is essentially the same as in the conference proceedings, although a few minor changes and corrections have been made, and the papers have been re-formatted and re-paginated.
      Cover page: Issues in Vehicle Navigation and Information Systems (89-15)
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      NCGIA Technical Reports (1989)
      This report contains over 500 references on "Languages of Spatial Relations" and related topics. The core focuses on linguistic studies of how natural languages represent and express objects and relations in geographic space, and on GIS data structures. The "related topics" include selected or key papers on human spatial cognition and learning, and on human-computer interfaces. The bibliography is intended to be the first edition of a "working bibliography" of this, the topic of NCGIA Research Initiative #2.
        Cover page: Working Bibliography on "Languages of Spatial Relations": First Edition (89-10)
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        NCGIA Technical Reports (1989)

        This is a report on a workshop entitled "Languages of Spatial Relations", held in Goleta and Montecito, California, January 15-19, 1989. The meeting, and this report, represent parts of Research Initiative #2, "Languages of Spatial Relations", of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA).

        The Specialist Meeting reported on in this document brought together geographers, cognitive linguists, computer scientists, engineers, and others in three days of interdisciplinary discussions on the representation of geographic space-- representation in language, in thought, and in computers. One theme of the meeting was that geographic information systems (GIS) must have at least some capabilities to deal with natural language.

        This report is primarily in the form of a transcript of the meeting, reporting what was said, and focussing on discussions and debates. Appended to this report are three essays submitted after the meeting by participants. A list of participants also is included.

          Cover page: Languages of Spatial Relationships (89-2)
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