An International Workshop on Spatial Cognition and Learning

空间认知与学习国际研讨会

• 批准号: 0823557
• 负责人: Thomas Shipley
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Temple University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-01 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0823557&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: International; Workshop; Spatial; Cognition; Learning

Research on spatial skills in humans has been gaining momentum in recent years, both nationally and internationally. This momentum is partly driven by the importance of spatial skills to achievement in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). It is also driven by the pervasive role of spatial cognition in human behavior, for example in tasks like navigation, tool usage, and even language comprehension and production. Two research centers that were recently formed to study spatial cognition are the NSF Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center (SILC) housed at Temple University, and the Transregional Collaborative Research Center Spatial Cognition (TCRCS) housed in Germany. With support of NSF, members of these two centers, along with other invited experts in the field, are holding a workshop with the goal of outlining a broad research agenda for the near and medium term future in the area of spatial cognition. The workshop is conceived more specifically to consider the role of visualization in STEM education as it relates to navigation, robotics, and engineering design. The two centers bring complementary expertise and perspectives to the table: SILC focuses on a broad set of skills including spatial transformations, spatial language, and spatial analogies, whereas TCRCS focuses on navigation and robotics from a computational point of view, with emphasis on perception-action relations. Other experts were chosen to enhance the representation of neuroscientific and geoscientific perspectives at the workshop. Its format will offer attendees the opportunity to become familiar with each other?s research, discuss the research agenda for the field, and compose a set of recommendations for research directions. The results will be disseminated on a workshop web site using the networks of all participating centers and individuals.

近年来，无论是在国内外，关于人类空间技能的研究一直在增长。 这种势头部分是由空间技能对科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）成就的重要性所驱动的。 它也是由空间认知在人类行为中的普遍作用所驱动的，例如在导航，工具使用乃至语言理解和生产等任务中。 最近成立的两个研究中心用于研究空间认知，是位于坦普尔大学的NSF空间智能和学习中心（SILC），以及在德国安置的跨区域协作研究中心空间认知（TCRC）。 在NSF的支持下，这两个中心的成员以及该领域的其他受邀专家正在举办一个研讨会，目的是概述空间认知领域的近期和中期未来的广泛研究议程。 该研讨会更具体地考虑了可视化在STEM教育中的作用，因为它与导航，机器人技术和工程设计有关。 这两个中心将互补的专业知识和观点带入表格：SILC专注于广泛的技能，包括空间转换，空间语言和空间类似物，而TCRC从计算的角度侧重于导航和机器人，重点是对感知的关系。 选择其他专家来增强研讨会上神经科学和地球科学观点的表示。 它的格式将为与会者提供彼此熟悉的研究，讨论该领域的研究议程，并为研究方向提出一系列建议。 结果将在研讨会网站上使用所有参与中心和个人的网站传播。