Session 1

• Dajana Snopková. Application of Space Syntax Theory in Agent-based Evacuation Modelling
• Bingjie Cheng. Enhancing Spatial Learning with an Adaptive Navigation System That Employs Neurofeedback
• Armand Kapaj. Landmark Visualization on Mobile Devices for Effective Pedestrian Navigation:Assessing the Effects of Realism for Spatial Learning
• Bartosz Mazurkiewicz. Augmented Reality Navigation in Outdoor Spaces
• Abed Bashardoost. Real-Time Situational Awareness for Disaster Management - Using the Juxtaposition of the UAV’s Supplied Reality Information and Existing 3D Models

• Charu Manivannan. Heuristic approach for automatic resolving of generalisation in sketch map alignment
• Han Kruiger. Modelling the Analytic Potential of Spatial Data Sources for Human Geography
• Sara Lafia. Spatially Supported Thematic Discovery of Research Data
• Caitlin M. Hafferty. QUALMAP: Qualitative Geospatial Methods for Active Participation
• René Unrau. Enhancing Usability Evaluation of Web-Based Geographic Information Systems with Visual Analytics
• Beidi Li. BIM-integrated decision-support software with automatic constraint checking

Modeling and Interaction

Session Chair: Sara Fabrikant

• David Amores, Maria Vasardani and Egemen Tanin. Smartphone Usability for Emergency Evacuation Applications (Short Paper)
• Heinrich Löwen, Jakub Krukar and Angela Schwering. Functional Scales in Assisted Wayfinding (Short Paper)
• Laura Pinson, Pierrick Tranouez and Géraldine Del Mondo. Representation of interdependencies between urban networks by a multi-layer graph (Short Paper)
• Gabriele Filomena, Ed Manley and Judith A. Verstegen. Route Choice Through Regions by Pedestrian Agents (Short Paper)

Reasoning and Reproducibility

Session Chair: Ioannis Giannopoulos

• José Moreira, José Duarte and Paulo Dias. Modeling and representing real-world spatio-temporal data in databases (Vision Paper)
• Tosue Momo and Kazuko Takahashi. Towards a Qualitative Reasoning on Shape Change and Object Division (Full Paper) 
• Christian Kray, Edzer Pebesma, Markus Konkol and Daniel Nüst. Reproducible Research in Geoinformatics: Concepts, Challenges and Benefits (Vision Paper)

Spatial Language

Session Chair: Maria Vasardani

• Ekaterina Egorova, Niloofar Aflaki, Cristiane Fagundes and Kristin Stock. Cross-corpora Analysis of Spatial Language: The Case of Fictive Motion (Short Paper)
• Sara Lafia and Jingyi Xiao. Talk of the Town: Discovering Government Data via Conversational Voice Assistants (Short Paper)
• Mansi Radke, Prarthana Das, Christopher Jones and Kristin Stock. Detecting the geospatialness of prepositions from natural language text (Short Paper)
• Ehsan Hamzei, Stephan Winter and Martin Tomko. Initial analysis of simple where-questions and human-generated answers (Short Paper)

Spatial and temporal language:

• Kai-Florian Richter. Strategies for resolving conflicts in interpreting referring expressions in human-robot interaction
• Adam Richard-Bollans. Investigating the Dimensions of Spatial Language
• Wiebke Schick. Incidental learning of survey knowledge and the impact of the route instruction for orientation 2 information
• Kristin Stock. He Tātai Whenua: An Exploratory Analysis of Landscape Terms in the New Zealand Māori Language

Visualisation and virtual spaces:

• Francis Harvey. Perceptual Map Matters
• Charu Manivannnan. Categorization of generalization in sketch maps
• Chris Kray. Map Palasticity
• Simge Özdal. Geospatial Semantics and Deep Learning for Urban Growth Predictions

Spatial behavior:

• Robert Jackermeier. Analysing Naturalistic Navigation Logs: User Behaviour in the Wild
• Pavel Ugwitz. Object-Based Approach to Eye Tracking in VR: Method and Implementation
• Vanessa Ligonnière. Cross-age benefits of landmarks: does cognitive or visual saliency benefit spatial representations?

Spatial concepts:

• Simon Scheider. Semantic data type signatures for representing spatial core concepts in GIS operations on spatial layers
• John Stell. Words in Space
• Xuke Hu. Main Entrance Tagging Approach based on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Features Extracted from OpenStreetMap
• Shahar Sagi. Political and Ethnic-National Spatial Entities, Tolerance and Geographical Judgment

Ontological Modeling

Session Chair: Simon Scheider

• Brandon Plewe. A Case for Geographic Masses (Full Paper)
• Shirly Stephen and Torsten Hahmann. Formal qualitative spatial augmentation of the Simple Feature Access model (Full Paper)
• Thomas Bittner.  Why classificatory information of geographic regions is quantum information (Vision Paper)

Diagrams and Visualization

Session Chair: Stephen Hirtle

• Thora Tenbrink, Ruth Conroy Dalton and Anwen Jago Williams. The language of architectural diagrams (Full Paper)
• Sara Lafia, Werner Kuhn and Christina Last. Enabling the Discovery of Thematically Related Research Objects with Systematic Spatializations (Full Paper)
• Tyler Thrash, Sara Lanini-Maggi, Sara I. Fabrikant, Annina Bruegger, Sascha Crede, Kai-Florian Richter, Cao Tri Do, Haosheng Huang, Stefan Muenzer, Georg Gartner and Sven Bertel. The future of geographic information displays from GIScience, cartographic, and cognitive science perspectives (Vision Paper)

Excursion

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Keynote: Sarah Creem-Regehr. Perception of Space in Augmented and Virtual Reality

Cognitive Models of Wayfinding

Session Chair: Christoph Schlieder

• Susan Epstein and Raj Korpan. Planning and Explanations with a Learned Spatial Model (Full Paper)
• Christina Bauer and Bernd Ludwig. Schematic Maps and Indoor Wayfinding (Full Paper)
• Crystal Bae and Daniel Montello. Dyadic Route Planning and Navigation in Collaborative Wayfinding (Full Paper)

Spatial Knowledge and Learning

Session Chair: John Stell

• Beidi Li, Carl Schultz and Mehul Bhatt. Lambda-Prolog(QS): Functional spatial reasoning in higher order logic programming (Short Paper)
• David Jonietz and Michael Kopp. Towards Modeling Geographical Processes with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) (Short Paper)
• Reinhard Moratz, Leif Sabellek and Thomas Schneider. Granular Spatial Calculi of Relative Directions or Movements with Parallelism: Consistent Account (Short Paper)