Workshop on Visual Cognition and Decision-Making in the Spatial Domain to be held in the Spring of 1997 in Solomons, Maryland

该研讨会的主要目的是就视觉认知这一主题创建一份广泛的研究总结和规划报告，以指导跨学科领域的研究。视觉认知将视觉感知和更高层次的领域知识结合在一起，是高级推理、规划、交流、学习和其他认知能力的接口。许多不同的实用领域，如自动化制造和机器人、机械设计、交通规划、教育和空间信息的表示和存储，都将受益于视觉认知的研究。对更高层次的认知过程及其发展的更全面的理解可能取决于对它们与知觉的关系的理解。在计算机科学中已经有许多关于这些问题的相关工作，分为图解推理、定性物理推理、几何推理和空间推理的形式逻辑，还有其他关于视觉认知的会议。但这一领域必然具有很强的跨学科性质(例如，三个研讨会的组织者来自心理学、计算机科学和电气工程)，所以这次会议将试图更加全面和综合，以实现其既定的目的。

The primary purpose of this workshop is to create a broad research summary and planning report on the topic of visual cognition to guide research in the interdisciplinary field. Visual cognition integrates visual perception with higher level domain knowledge, and serves as the interface to high-level reasoning, planning, communication, learning, and other cognitive abilities. Many diverse, practical areas, such as automated manufacturing and robotics, mechanical design, transportation planning, education, and the representation and storage of spatial information stand to benefit from research in visual cognition. A fuller understanding of higher-level cognitive processes and their development may hinge on an understanding of their relation to perception. There is already a body of relevant work in computer science on these issues, categorized variously as diagrammatic reasoning, qualitative physical reasoning, geometric reasoning, and the formal logic of spatial reasoning, and there have been other meetings on visual cognition. But the field is of necessity strongly interdisciplinary (the three workshop organizers come from psychology, computer science, and electrical engineering, for example), so this meeting will attempt to be more comprehensive and integrative in nature, in order to accomplish its stated purpose.