Spatial Cognition

Much of my work in spatial cognition occurs in non-traditional spatial cognition domains -- robotics, graph comprehension, and even interruptions and resumptions.

References:

Trickett, S. B. & Trafton, J. G. (in press). ``What if...'': The Use of Conceptual Simulations in Scientific Reasoning. Cognitive Science.

Trafton, J. G., Trickett, S. B., Stitzlein, C. A., Saner, L., Schunn, C. D., & Kirschenbaum, S. S. (2006). The relationship between Spatial Transformations and Iconic Gestures Spatial Cognition and Computation. 6(1), 1-29. [Lead Article]

Trafton, J. G., Trickett, S. B., & Mintz, F. E. (2005). Connecting internal and external representations: Spatial transformations of scientific visualizations. Foundations of Science. 10(1), 89-106.

Bogacz, S., & Trafton, J. G. (2005). Understanding Dynamic and Static displays: Using Images to Reason Dynamically. Cognitive Systems Research. 6(4), 312-319.

Trafton, J. G., Cassimatis, N. L., Bugajska, M. D., Brock, D. P., Mintz, F. E., & Schultz, A. C. (2005). Enabling effective human-robot interaction using perspective-taking in robots IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics---Part {A: Systems and Humans. 35(4), 460-470.

Trafton, J. G., Kirschenbaum, S. S., Tsui, T. L., Miyamoto, R. T., Ballas, J. A., & Raymond, P. D. (2000). Turning Pictures into Numbers: Extracting and Generating Information from Complex Visualizations. International Journal of Human Computer Studies 53 (5), 827-850.

Trickett, S. B., Trafton, J. G., Saner, L., & Schunn, C. D. (in press). ``I don't know what's going on there'': The Use of Spatial Transformations to Deal With and Resolve Uncertainty in Complex Visualizations. To appear in M. Lovett & Shah, P. (Eds.), Thinking with data.

Tricket, S. B. & Trafton, J. G. (2006). Toward a comprehensive model of graph comprehension: Making the case for spatial cognition. (pp. 286-300). In D. Barker-Plummer, R. Cox, & N. Swoboda (Eds.). Diagrammatic Representation and Inference.

Tricket, S. B. & Trafton, J. G. (2004). Spatial Transformations in graph comprehension. In A. F. Blackwell, K. Marriott, and A. Shimojima (Eds.). Diagrammatic Representation and Inference.

Trafton, J. G., Marshall, S., Mintz, F., & Trickett, S. B. (2002). Extracting explicit and implicit information from complex visualizations (pp. 206-220). In M. Hegarty, B. Meyer, & H. Narayanan (Eds.) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference.

Kriz, S., Trafton, J. G., & McCurry, J. M. (2007). The role of spatial information in referential communication: Speaker and addressee preferences for disambiguating objects. In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Ratwani, R. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2006). Now, where was I? Examining the Perceptual Processes while Resuming an Interrupted Task. The proceedings of the twenty-eighth annual conference of the cognitive science society.

Trafton, J. G., Schultz, A. C., Perzanowski, D., Bugajska, M. D., Adams, W., Cassimatis, N. L., & Brock, D. P. (2006). Children and robots learning to play hide and seek. Human Robot Interaction.

Trafton, J. G. (2004). Dynamic Mental Models in weather forecasting. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 48th Annual Meeting.

Mintz, F. E., Trafton, J. G., Marsh, E., & Perzanowski, D. (2004). Choosing frames of reference. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 48th Annual Meeting.

Trickett, S. B., & Trafton, J. G. (2004). Use of Spatial Transformations in Graph Comprehension. The proceedings of the twenty-sixth annual conference of the cognitive science society.

Trafton, J. G., & Trickett, S. B. (2001). A new model of graph and visualization usage (pp. 1048-1053). The proceedings of the twenty-third annual conference of the cognitive science society

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