A Virtual Test Bed in Support of Cognitively-Aware Geomatics Technologies

  • Authors:

  • Geoffrey Edwards

  • Affiliations:

  • -

  • Venue:
  • COSIT 2001 Proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: Foundations of Geographic Information Science
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Current efforts concerned with research at the interface between cognitive science and geographic information science or geomatics is beginning to shift towards a larger focus on how the theory developed may be applied to concrete applications. In order to provide some quality control on the development and evaluation of cognitively-aware geomatics systems and technologies, this paper proposes to consolidate current theory into a virtual test bed. The virtual test bed requires an appropriate and adequate categorization of spatial cognitive behaviors, itself a non-trivial task. In addition, the test bed must be sufficiently general to evaluate different kinds of cognitively aware systems. In this paper, three characteristics of such systems are discussed - their plausibility, their compatibility and their scope. The relationships between these concepts and the Turing test are also explored. A tentative categorization scheme, based on information processing needs, is then proposed as an initial framework for developing a virtual test bed. Several design issues are also presented, and the paper finishes with the presentation of two case studies that illustrate how the test bed might be used.