=================== Call for Participation ======================= (apologies for multiple postings, please circulate) VSDESIGN'06 Constructing and Understanding Visuo-Spatial Representations in Design Thinking a Design Computing and Cognition (DCC 2006) Workshop Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 9th July 2006 Details at http://www.sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de/vsdesign06 (includes full call for participation and a position paper to be targeted by participants) -------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP AIMS The workshop focuses on the construction of internal and external representations in design thinking as well as on the understanding and interpretation of them. Constructing visuo-spatial representations refers to the making of spatial models and/or visual representations of the necessary elements either mentally or externally to be used in a problem solving activity. Tracing the construction of visuo-spatial representations may inform design research about how conceptions are formed, developed, represented and re-interpreted. Understanding visuo-spatial representations refers to revealing what meanings visuo-spatial representations convey and what they may reflect about design thinking. Developing an understanding of visuo-spatial representations therefore also refers to the problem types and research methods. Topics from the following areas will be addressed by the workshop: 1. Understanding visuo-spatial representation in design 2. Constructing percepts/concepts in design 3. Modeling reasoning by construction 4. Cognitive and user modeling issues We aim to attract participants that represent a number of disciplines, including architecture, design research, computer science, or the cognitive sciences. -------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CONTRIBUTIONS Research into constructing and understanding visuo-spatial representations forms the focus of this workshop. Increasing our understanding could make significant contributions to the effects of cognitive processes in designing. By bringing together different research communities, the results of this workshop are likely to have implications not only for the design domain but also in others such as: wayfinding and navigation, reasoning about maps, graphs and diagrams, interface design, cognitive and user modeling, artworks and the many other visual fields that are used today. -------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE Uday Athavankar, IIT Bombay B. Chandrasekaran, Ohio State University Ellen Do, Carnegie Mellon University Christian Freksa, Universität Bremen John Gero, University of Sydney Gabriela Goldschmidt, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology N. Hari Narayanan, National Science Foundation Barbara Tversky, Stanford University Masaki Suwa, Chukyo University CHAIRS Thomas Barkowsky, Universität Bremen Sven Bertel, Universität Bremen Julie Jupp, University of Cambridge Zafer Bilda, University of Sydney -------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due: 28th May '06 Notification of acceptance: 13th June '06 Revised submissions due: 25th June '06 Workshop: 9th July '06, 9:00 - 12:30 The workshop will be held in conjunction with Design Cognition and Computation (DCC'06) at the Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 10-12th July '06 http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc/conferences/dcc06/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSIONS Participants who would like to make a contribution are asked to submit a one-page abstract in reaction to the position paper (available at http://www.sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de/vsdesign06) together with a brief CV / description of research interests. The program committee members will review the submissions to the workshop. Based on this review process, 5-6 submissions will be included in the workshop program. These submissions will be distributed among the group of participants, together with a short list of key questions that should be addressed in the talks at the workshop. Abstracts for review (1 page maximum) must be submitted electronically in Acrobat PDF, RTF or Microsoft Word formats. Please refer to Importants Dates for deadlines above. Abstracts should be formatted according to the DCC'06 paper guidelines. Depending on the contributions and the participants' interest, a subsequent special edition of the journal AIEDAM will be proposed. AIEDAM (Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing) is a journal by Cambridge University Press (http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~aiedam/). Please submit your workshop position paper to the chairs by sending an email to vsdesign06@informatik.uni-bremen.de. -------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION Registration for the workshop is available through the DCC'06 conference web site or on-site at the day of the workshop. In accordance with the conference's policy, workshop registration for DCC'06 conference attendees will be EUR 35.00 and for those not attending the conference EUR 65.00 to cover the base costs. -------------------------------------------------------------------- SPONSORS The chairs of VSDESIGN'06 gratefully acknowledge support by the following institutions: # SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition: Reasoning, Action, Interaction (http://www.sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de) # Universität Bremen (http://www.uni-bremen.de) # The Cambridge Engineering Design Centre (http://www-edc.eng.cam.ac.uk) # The University of Cambridge (http://www.cam.ac.uk) # The Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, Sydney (http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc) # The University of Sydney (http://www.usyd.edu.au) -------------------------------------------------------------------- VSDESIGN'06 --- http://www.sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de/vsdesign06 Thomas Barkowsky, Sven Bertel, Julie, Jupp, Zafer Bilda