Dissertation

Lovett, A. (2012). Spatiall Routines: A framework for modeling spatial problem-solving. Doctoral dissertation, Northwestern University, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Evanston, Illinois. [pdf]

Journal Papers & Book Chapters

Sagi, E., Gentner, D., & Lovett, A. (2012). What difference reveals about similarity. Cognitive Science, 36(6), 1019-1050. [pdf]

Lovett, A., & Forbus, K. (2011). Cultural commonalities and differences in spatial problem-solving: A computational analysis. Cognition, 121(2), 281-287. [pdf]

Forbus, K., Usher, J., Lovett, A., Lockwood, K., & Wetzel, J. (2011). CogSketch: Sketch understanding for cognitive science research and for education. Topics in Cognitive Science, 3(4), 648-666.

Lovett, A., Tomai, E., Forbus, K. & Usher, J. (2009). Solving geometric analogy problems through two-stage analogical mapping. Cognitive Science, 33(7), 1192-1231. [pdf]

Lovett, A., Gentner, D., Forbus, K., & Sagi, E. (2009). Using analogical mapping to simulate time-course phenomena in perceptual similarity. Cognitive Systems Research 10(3): Special Issue on Analogies - Integrating Cognitive Abilities, 216-228. [pdf]

Striegnitz, K., Tepper, P., Lovett, A., & Cassell, J. (2009). Knowledge representation for generating locating gestures in route directions. In K. R. Coventry, T. Tenbrink, & J. Bateman (Eds.), Spatial Language and Dialogue (Explorations in Language and Space). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Conference Papers

Lovett, A., & Schultheis, H. (2014). Modeling spatial abstraction during mental rotation. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Quebec City, Canada. [pdf]

Lovett, A., & Forbus, K. (2013). Modeling spatial ability in mental rotation and paper-folding. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Berlin, Germany. [pdf]

Lovett, A., & Forbus, K. (2012). Modeling multiple strategies for solving geometric analogy problems. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Sapporo, Japan. [pdf]

Lovett, A., Forbus, K., & Usher, J. (2010). A structure-mapping model of Raven's Progressive Matrices. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Portland, OR. [pdf]

Lovett, A., Sagi, E., Gentner, D., & Forbus, K. (2009). Modeling perceptual similarity as analogy resolves the paradox of difference detection. Proceedings of the 2nd International Analogy Conference. Sofia, Bulgaria. [pdf]

Lovett, A., & Forbus, K. (2009). Using a visual routine to model the computational of positional relations. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [pdf]

Lovett, A., Lockwood, K., & Forbus, K. (2008). A computational model of the visual oddity task. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Washington, D.C. [pdf]

Lovett, A., Lockwood, K., & Forbus, K. (2008). Modeling cross-cultural performance on the visual oddity task. Proceedings of Spatial Cognition 2008. Freiburg, Germany. [pdf]

Lockwood, K., Lovett, A., & Forbus, K. (2008). Automatic classification of containment and support spatial relations in English and Dutch. Proceedings of Spatial Cognition 2008. Freiburg, Germany. [pdf]

Lovett, A., Dehghani, M., & Forbus, K. (2007). Incremental learning of perceptual categories for open-domain sketch recognition. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Hyderabad, India, 447-452. [pdf]

Lovett, A. Forbus, K., & Usher, J. (2007). Analogy with qualitative spatial representations can simulate solving Raven's Progressive Matrices. Proceedings of the of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Nashville, TN. [pdf]

Dehghani, M., & Lovett, A. (2006) Efficient genre classification using qualitative representations. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval. Vancouver, Canada. [pdf]

Lovett, A., Gentner, D., & Forbus, K. (2006). Simulating time-course phenomena in perceptual similarity via incremental encoding. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Vancouver, Canada. [pdf]

Tomai, E., Lovett, A., Forbus, K., & Usher, J. (2005). A structure mapping model for solving geometric analogy problems. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Stressa, Italy, 2190-2195. [pdf]

Lovett, A., & Scassellati, B. (2004). Using a robot to reexamine looking time experiments. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL). San Diego, CA. [Best Paper Award] [pdf]



Workshops and Symposia

Lovett, A., & Franconeri, S. (2015). Humans encode qualitative topological relations. Proceedings of the 29th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning. Minneapolis, MN. [pdf]

Lovett, A., Kandaswamy, S., McLure, M., & Forbus, K. (2012). Evaluating qualitative models of shape representation. Proceedings of the 26th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning. Los Angeles, CA. [pdf]

Lovett, A. & Forbus, K. (2011). Organizing and representing space for visual problem-solving. Proceedings of the 25th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning. Barcelona, Spain. [pdf]

Lovett, A. & Forbus, K. (2010). Shape is like space: Modeling shape representation as a set of qualitative spatial relations. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Cognitive Shape Processing. Palo Alto, CA. [pdf]

Lovett, A., & Forbus, K. (2009). Computing human-like qualitative topological relations via visual routines. Proceedings of the 23rd International Qualitative Reasoning Workshop. Ljubljana, Slovenia. [pdf]

Lovett, A., Dehghani, M., & Forbus, K. (2008). Building and comparing qualitative descriptions of three-dimensional design sketches. Proceedings of the 22nd International Qualitative Reasoning Workshop. Boulder, CO. [pdf]

Forbus, K., Usher, J., Lovett, A., Lockwood, K., & Wetzel, J. (2008). CogSketch: Open-domain sketch understanding for cognitive science research and for education. Proceedings of the Fifth Eurographics Workshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling. Annecy, France. [pdf]

Lovett, A., Lockwood, K., Dehghani, M., & Forbus, K. (2007). Modeling human-like rates of learning via analogical generalization. Proceedings of Analogies: Integrating Multiple Cognitive Abilities. Nashville, Tennessee [pdf]

Lovett, A., Sagi, E., & Gentner, D. (2007). Analogy as a mechanism for comparison. Proceedings of Analogies: Integrating Multiple Cognitive Abilities. Nashville, Tennessee [pdf]

Lovett, A., Dehghani, M., & Forbus, K. (2007). Constructing spatial representations of variable detail for sketch recognition. AAAI Spring Symposium on Control Mechanisms for Spatial Knowledge Processing in Cognitive / Intelligent Systems. Stanford University, California. [pdf]

Lovett, A., Forbus, K., & Usher, J. (2007). Using qualitative representations and analogical mapping to solve problems from a spatial intelligence test. Proceedings of the 21st International Qualitative Reasoning Workshop. Aberystwyth, U.K. [pdf]

Dehghani, M., Unsworth, S., Lovett, A., & Forbus, K. (2007). Capturing and categorizing mental models of food webs using QCM. Proceedings of the 21st International Qualitative Reasoning Workshop. Aberystwyth, U.K.

Lovett, A., Dehghani, M., & Forbus, K. (2006). Efficient learning of qualitative descriptions for sketch recognition. Proceedings of the 20th International Qualitative Reasoning Workshop. Hanover, New Hampshire. [pdf]