Sven Bertel

Sven Bertel

My coordinates have recently changed from
53°6'21" N 8°51'18" E
to 40°6'55" N 88°13'32" W

Current position:
Post-doctoral research associate at the
Beckman Institute for Advanced Sci & Tech
and Human Factors Division,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Email   bertel [at] illinois.edu
Mail   University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4211 Beckman Institute, MC-251,
405 North Mathews Avenue,
Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Phone   +1 (217) 244-1202   Fax -8647

cognitive systems





     
  Research Interests:  
   
  Spatial cognition ++ Computational modeling of mental reasoning with spatial knowledge (e.g. with spatial mental models, mental images, and diagrams) ++ Using computational cognitive models to improve human-computer cooperation in various scenarios ++ Visual attention and mental spatial reasoning ++ Human problem solving strategies and mental conceptions of space in architectural design ++ Eye tracking and attentional focus ++ Visual and spatial mental knowledge processing ++ Spatial concepts in WWW use.
   
  Curriculum Vitae: I will be glad to provide an up-to-date copy of my CV on request.
 

 
  Selected Research Projects:  
   
  Doctoral project in artificial intelligence and spatial cognition on 'Spatial structures and visual attention in diagrammatic reasoning' (Dr. rer. nat., concluded in Jan 2009)

DFG SFB/TR-8 Spatial Cognition: project R1-[ImageSpace] - Mental Representations of Spatial Environments

DFG Spatial Cognition Priority Program: project Aspect Maps
   
  Publications: List     Papers at scholar.google.com
   

  Selected (Co-) Organized Events:  
 
  upcoming - 2010, March 22-24: AAAI Spring Symposium on Cognitive Shape Processing, to be held at Stanford University

2008, September 19: Doctoral colloquium at the Spatial Cognition 2008 (SC'08) conference in Freiburg, Germany (ESRI student awards are available)

2006, July 9: Constructing and Understanding Visuo-Spatial Representations in Design Thinking (VSDESIGN'06), workshop at the Design Computing and Cognition 2006 conference in Eindhoven, The Netherlands

2006, June 17: 50 Years AI — an artificial intelligence symposium to celebrate the golden anniversary of the Dartmouth Conference that marks the beginning of AI as a research field. Colocated with the 29th annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2006) and RoboCup 2006.

2006, June 14-19: KI2006, 29th annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence

2004, July 18: Workshop on "Mental conceptions of emergent spaces in architectural design", held in connection with DCC'04 at MIT, Cambridge, MA [call for papers, workshop notes, program]

2003, September 01-02: International workshop on spatial and visual components in mental reasoning about large-scale spaces (held at the ISCSI, Bad Zwischenahn)
   

  Teaching:  
   
  Spring 2009: Psychology / Aviation 527 - Engineering Psychology (course material, login required)

Winter 2008/09: Cognitive Systems 2

Winter 2007/08: Tutorium zur Theoretischen Informatik 1

Winter 2007/08: Cognitive Systems 2

Summer 2007: Tutorium zur Theoretischen Informatik 2

Winter 2005/06 - Summer 2007: MaX - MazeXplorer. Projekt im Hauptstudium Informatik.

Winter 2003/04 - Summer 2005: CooPLanD - Assisting cooperative planning of land use. Projekt im Hauptstudium Informatik.

Summer 2003: Tutorium zur Theoretischen Informatik 2

Winter 2002/03: Tutorien zur Praktischen Informatik 1
   

  Selected Grants & Fellowships:  
   
  2009: Grant at the Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality in Psychology and Economics, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin

2007: AAAI Student grant at the 2007 AAAI Spring Symposium Series, Stanford University

2007: Travel grant by BFK Natural Sciences, Universität Bremen for the ECEM 2007 conference

2006: DFG travel grant to Stanford University and to UC Santa Barbara

2006: Google Inc. travel award at Diagrams 2006, Stanford University

2005: Travel grant for the European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM 13), Universität Bern, Switzerland, by the German Research Foundation / DFG

2005: Student grant at the AAAI 2005 Spring Symposia, Stanford University

2004/2005: Grant by the SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition for an extended research visit to UC Santa Barbara (Hegarty Spatial Thinking Lab, Dept of Psychology)

2004: Scholarship at the Design Computing and Cognition / DCC'04 conference, MIT, Cambridge, MA

2003: ESRI Student Award at the COSIT'03 conference in Ittingen, Switzerland

2003: DAAD stipend for the 10th International Summer School in Cognitive Science at NBU, Sofia

2002: Travel grant by Hansische Universitätsstiftung, Universität Hamburg for the 9th International Summer School in Cognitive Science at NBU, Sofia

1998/1999: Overseas Fellowship and stipend by Indiana University, Bloomington
   
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