Dr. Priyanka Srivastava attended Spatial Cognition 2018 in Tuebingen, Germany from 5 – 8 September. Spatial Cognition is concerned with the acquisition, organization, and utilization of knowledge about spatial objects and environments, be it real, virtual, or abstract, human or machine. It comprises research in different scientific fields insofar as they are concerned with cognitive agents and space, such as cognitive psychology, linguistics, computer science, geography, philosophy, or education. Research issues in the field range from the investigation of human spatial cognition to mobile robot navigation, including aspects such as wayfinding, spatial planning, spatial learning, internal and external representations of space, and communication of spatial information. Spatial Cognition 2018 brought together researchers working on spatial cognition from all of these perspectives. The program had invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. The main conference was preceded by one day of tutorials, workshops and symposia.
