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Meeting Topics
Specialist Meeting
Santa Barbara, California
May 14-16, 1998

Plenary Papers Delivered

THURSDAY - May 14:

Golledge 8:45-9:20am "Procedures & Charge, Topic Overview"

Montello 9:20-9:50am "Thinking of Scale; The Scale of Thought"

Openshaw 10:10-10:30am "Optimizing Scale"

Sholl 1:30-1:50pm "Are There Different Psychological Scale Classes?"

FRIDAY - May 15:

Goodchild 8:30-8:50am "Scale, Resolution, Process"

Freksa 1:30-1:50pm "Scale and Detail: A Representation-Theoretic Perspective"

SATURDAY - May 16:

McNamara 9:00-9:20am "Spatial Representation and Scale"

 
Breakout Session Topics

THURSDAY - May 14:

Break-out Session #1 - 2:00-3:30pm

1. Cognitive Scale Classes
2. Communicating and Representing Scale and Scale Changes
3. Aggregation and Scale in Spatial Analysis
4. Understanding Scale and Scale Changes by Subpopulations
(e.g., disabled, experts-novices, cultures)

FRIDAY - May 15:

Break-out Session #2 - 9:15-10:40am

1. Spatial Language and Scale
2. Children and Scale
3. Scale in Virtual Worlds and Cyberspace
4. Reference and Coordinate Systems

Break-out Session #3 - 2:15-3:30pm

1. Geographers' vs. Psychologists' Scale Concepts
2. Research Methodologies for Studying Scale
3. Scale in Formal/Computational Modeling
4. Time and Scale (e.g., animations)

SATURDAY - May 16:

Break-out Session #4 - 9:45-11:10am

1. Scale in Action-Perception Pairings
2. Scale in Human vs. Physical Processes
3. Scale in a Digital World
4. Equivalent Realities/Internal and External Representations