Welcome to the Spatial Cognitive Engineering Lab at UCSB


The main research issues of the SpaCE Lab are in the area of cognitive engineering for spatio-temporal services, such as location-based services. The primary goal is personalization of services to overcome the discrepancies between cognitive user parameters and physical system parameters. The research group especially deals with the theoretical conception, implementation, and testing of new methods and technologies for space-time decision support. A main focus in the area of cognitive semantic interoperability addresses formal representation and mapping of space-time concepts to improve communication between systems and users for geospatial information services. The research group has an interdisciplinary orientation and applies methods from the geographic, cognitive, and computer sciences.

News and events :-

Welcome to Yihong Yuan!

Yihong Yuan

Yihong Yuan

The SpaCE Lab is happy to announce a new member of the SpaCE Lab, Yihong Yuan. Yihong has a bachelor’s degree in Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing from Peking University and will be pursuing a PhD in the Geography at UCSB. Her research interests include Spatial Cognition, Place-based GIS, Individual-based Modeling of spatial-matters Phenomenon, and Spatio-temporal GIS.

COSIT Award

Drew won best cognitive science paper at the COSIT Doctoral Colloquium for his paper “Learning and Navigating Built Environments: Individuals’ Travel Patterns and Spatial Knowledge Measured in the Field with a Mobile Geographic Information System”. Congratulations, Drew!

ICSC 2009

A paper by Ben Adams and Martin Raubal, “Conceptual Space Markup Language (CSML): Towards the Cognitive Semantic Web,” has been accepted at the Third IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing being held in Berkeley, CA, Sept. 14-16.

SpaCE Lab hard at work

Lab Meeting

Lab Meeting

COSIT ‘09

Two SpaCE Lab papers have been accepted for the Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT ‘09) being held in Aber Wrac’h, France in September:

M. Raubal, S. Winter, & C. Dorr, Decentralized Time Geography for Ad-Hoc Collaborative Planning.

B. Adams & M. Raubal, A Metric Conceptual Space Algebra.

In addition, Ben Adams will be presenting at the COSIT Doctoral Colloquium and Martin Raubal will be teaching a tutorial on Perspectives on Semantic Similarity for the Spatial Sciences.

Ed wins Teaching Award

Ed Pultar won the Department of Geography’s annual Excellence in Teaching award.  Congratulations, Ed!

Space Syntax Symposium

Drew Dara-Abrams will be presenting his paper, “Extracting Cognitively-relevant Measures from Environmental Models”, at the Space Syntax Symposium being held in Stockholm in June.

Drew, Ed, and Martin at AAG

AAG Conference

Three members of the SpaCE Lab will be presenting talks at the Association of American Geographers annual meeting in Las Vegas, NV, USA in March.

Drew Dara-Abrams will be presenting Measuring, Analyzing, and Visualizing an Individual’s “Image of the City” with the Cognitive Surveying Framework on March 25 as part of the Cognition, Behavior, and Representation IV: Domains paper session.

Edward Pultar will be presenting Spatial Behavior Integrating Multiple Network Levels on March 25 as part of the Cognition, Behavior, and Representation III: Methods paper session.

Martin Raubal will be presenting Cognitive Ontology Engineering on March 26 as part of the Representing the Ontology of Geographic Phenomena I: Foundations paper session.

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