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For individuals with significant vision impairment, due to natural aging processes or early vision loss, descriptions of indoor scenes require a high level of precision in spatial information to convey accurate object relations and allow for the formation of effective mental models. This paper briefly describes a single experiment conducted within a larger study investigating the preference of spatial prepositions to describe spatial relations between objects in a vista-scale setting. The goal of the larger study is to identify a small set of spatial concepts and terms that can provide a framework for automated natural-language descriptions of indoor vista-scale environments.
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Doore, S., Beard, K., Giudice, N. (2018). Spatial Prepositions in Natural-Language Descriptions of Indoor Scenes. In: Fogliaroni, P., Ballatore, A., Clementini, E. (eds) Proceedings of Workshops and Posters at the 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2017). COSIT 2017. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63946-8_41
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