ISD8 2024
The Eighth Image Schema Day

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 16 contributions were submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 10 papers were accepted for publication in this volume,

Keynotes

• Image Schemas, Cognitive Metaphor, and Film: Bridging Discourses
  John Bateman
• Spatial Representations and Image Schemas for Symbol Grounding and Reasoning
  Zoe Falomir

Tutorial

• Cognitively Inspired Reasoning for Reactive Robotics - From Image Schemas to Knowledge Enrichment
  Mihai Hawkin, Stefano De Giorgis, Nikolaos Tsiogkas

Papers

• Multimodal meets Intuitive? Comparing Visual and Tangible Image Schema Representations
  Cordola Baur, Fredrik Stamm, Carolin Wienrich, Jörn Hurtienne
• Generalized Between Icon, Symbol and Index: The Physical Dimension in Isotype and Unicode
  Sandra Neugaertner
• Beyond Space and Time: An Initial Sketch of Formal Accounts to Non-Spatiotemporal Conceptual Sensory Primitives
  Maria M. Hedblom
• How to Blend Concepts in Diffusion Models
  Lorenzo Olearo, Giorgio Longari, Simone Melzi, Alessandro Raganato, Rafael Peñaloza
• The Boat, the House and the In-Between: Conceptual Blending as Betweenness Relation
  Mena Leemhuis, Oliver Kutz
• Image Schema and Ontology-based Rules to Support Planning Activities: A Study of the Urban Square
  Maria Rosaria Stufano Melone, Stefano Borgo, Domenico Camarda
• “The Time for Action has Arrived”: Extending the IS Catalogue Leveraging Large Language Models
  Stefano De Giorgis, Guendalina Righetti
• May the FORCE be with Semantics: exploiting LLMs to Image Schematic Knowledge Enrichment
  Stefano De Giorgis
• Left-Right Spatial Orientation in Dream Reports: Image Schemas and Interactional Dynamics
  Valeriia Nikolaienko
• An Embodied Approach to Treating Aphasia: __ Missing ___ Prepositions and Bringing Them In
  Daniela Diesner