VR'01 Second International Conference
Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy 17-19 July 2001

The design process has become the focus of an increasingly intense research effort. Of central importance in designing is the interplay between two types of knowledge - abstract, conceptual knowledge and perceptually based knowledge. Visual and spatial reasoning are the cognitive and/or computational processes that link these two types of knowledge and it is this aspect of the design process that forms the focus of the conference.

The conference aims to bring together researchers from both within and without design who work on visual and spatial reasoning and researchers from both cognitive and computational viewpoints. The overall objective is to develop this new interdisciplinary field and provide a unified research agenda for this socially and economically significant area.

The conference will be held at the Bellagio Conference Center, Bellagio, located in northen Italy (near Milan) on Lake Como. The cost of accommodation and meals for attendees will be borne by the Conference through a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation

Limited travel funds are available for attendees from Eastern/Central Europe or developing countries who have papers accepted and are unable to arrange travel funds.