Maria Hedblom

Assistant Professor Computer Science
Department of Computing , School of Engineering
Presentation Publications

In 2018, Hedblom got a Dr Eng in Theoretical Computer Science at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germarny. Before that, she received an MSc in Cognitive Science at Linköping University, Sweden. 

Her main research topics concern cognitively-inspired AI, spatiotemporal reasoning, computational creativity and commonsense reasoning for robotics. Her most prominent contribution concerns her formal work on integrating linguistic and psychological theories on image schemas into AI frameworks. 

Article

Hedblom, M. (2024). Every dog has its day: An in-depth analysis ofthe creative ability of visual generative AI Cosmos + Taxis, 12(5 + 6), 88-103. More information
Hedblom, M., Neuhaus, F., Mossakowski, T. (2024). The Diagrammatic Image Schema Language (DISL) Spatial Cognition and Computation. More information
Pomarlan, M., Hedblom, M., Porzel, R. (2023). Curiously exploring affordance spaces of a pouring task Expert systems (Print), 40(6). More information
Höffner, S. Porzel, R. Hedblom, M. Pomarlan, M. Cangalovic, V. Pfau, J. , ... Malaka R. (2022). Deep understanding of everyday activity commands for household robots Semantic Web, 13(5), 895-909. More information
Hedblom, M., Kutz, O., Peñaloza, R., Guizzardi, G. (2019). Image Schema Combinations and Complex Events Künstliche Intelligenz, 33(3), 279-291. More information
Besold, T., Hedblom, M., Kutz, O. (2017). A narrative in three acts: Using combinations of image schemas to model events Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, 19, 10-20. More information
Hedblom, M., Kutz, O., Neuhaus, F. (2016). Image schemas in computational conceptual blending Cognitive Systems Research, 39, 42-57. More information
Hedblom, M., Kutz, O., Neuhaus, F. (2015). Choosing the Right Path: Image Schema Theory as a Foundation for Concept Invention Journal of Artificial General Intelligence, 6(1), 21-54. More information

Book

Hedblom, M. (2020). Image schemas and concept invention: Cognitive, logical, and linguistic investigations. Cham: Springer More information

Doctoral thesis

Hedblom, M. (2019). Image schemas and concept invention: Cognitive, logical, and linguistic investigations (Doctoral thesis, Magdeburg: Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg). More information

Book chapter

Hedblom, M. (2022). Methodological reflection of the documentalysis of .co.kr from the %WRONG Browser series. In: I. Hinterwaldner, D. Hönigsberg & M. Konstantin (Ed.), Navigation (pp. 33 -39). Hildesheim: Open Publishing LMU More information
Hedblom, M., Kutz, O., Neuhaus, F. (2018). Image schemas and concept invention. In: R. Confalonieri, A. Pease, M. Schorlemmer, T. R. Besold, O. Kutz, E. Maclean & M. Kaliakatsos-Papakostas (Ed.), Concept Invention: Foundations, Implementation, Social Aspects and Applications (pp. 99 -132). Cham: Springer More information

Conference paper

Pomarlan, M., Hedblom, M., Spillner, L., Porzel, R. (2024). Revising defeasible theories via instructions. Cham: Springer, 8th International Joint Conference, RuleML+RR 2024, Bucharest, Romania, September 16–18, 2024. More information
Hedblom, M. (2023). When Push Comes to Shove: A Formal Analysis of the Conceptual Primitives in Pushing. Seventh Image Schema Day, co-located with The 20th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2023), Rhodes, Greece, September 2-4, 2023. More information
Mossakowski, T., Hedblom, M., Neuhaus, F., Arboleda, S., Raake, A. (2023). Using the Diagrammatic Image Schema Language for Joint Human-Machine Cognition. 60th ISC, Ilmenau Scientific Colloquium, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany, 4-8 September 2023. More information
Hedblom, M. (2023). The Silent Expression: The ethical issues with meaningless AI-generated images entering the art scene. 2nd International Conference on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (2ICEAI), Porto, Portugal, November 28-30, 2023. More information
Dhanabalachandran, K., Hedblom, M., Beetz, M. (2022). Getting on top of things: Towards intelligent robotic object stacking through image-schematic reasoning. Sixth Image Schema Day 2022, Jönköping, Sweden, March 24-25th, 2022. More information
Hedblom, M., Neuhaus, F. (2022). Visualising image schemas: A preliminary look at the Diagrammatic Image Schema Language (DISL). Sixth Image Schema Day 2022, Jönköping, Sweden, March 24-25th, 2022. More information
Righetti, G., Porello, D., Troquard, N., Kutz, O., Hedblom, M., Galliani, P. (2022). Asymmetric Hybrids: Dialogues for Computational Concept Combination (Extended Abstract). 31st International Joint Conference On Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-22), 23-29 July, 2022, Vienna, Austria. More information
Dhanabalachandran, K., Hedblom, M., Beetz, M. (2022). A balancing act: Ordering algorithm and image-schematic action descriptors for stacking objects by household robots. The Eighth Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO22), RobOntics: 3rd International Workshop on Ontologies for Autonomous Robotics Jönköping, Sweden, August 15-19, 2022. More information
Pomarlan, M., De Giorgis, S., Hedblom, M., Diab, M., Tsiogkas, N. (2022). Thinking in front of the box: Towards intelligent robotic action selection for navigation in complex environments using image-schematic reasoning. The Eighth Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO22), RobOntics: 3rd International Workshop on Ontologies for Autonomous Robotics Jönköping, Sweden, August 15-19, 2022. More information
Hedblom, M., Kutz, O. (2022). The ontology of image schemas and the artificial mind. The 4th Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS4 2022), June 15-18, 2022, Aachen, Germany (online conference). More information
Dhanabalachandran, K., Hassouna, V., Hedblom, M., Kümpel, M., Leusmann, N., Beetz, M. (2021). Cutting Events: Towards Autonomous Plan Adaption by Robotic Agents through Image-Schematic Event Segmentation. 11th on Knowledge Capture Conference, K-CAP ’21, December 2–3, 2021, Virtual Event, USA. More information
Pomarlan, M., Hedblom, M., Porzel, R. (2021). Panta Rhei: Curiosity-Driven Exploration to Learn the Image-Schematic Affordances of Pouring Liquids. The 29th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science 2021, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, December 9-10, 2021. More information
Righetti, G., Porello, D., Troquard, N., Kutz, O., Hedblom, M., Galliani, P. (2021). Asymmetric Hybrids: Dialogues for Computational Concept Combination. Twelfth International Conference (FOIS 2021) . More information
Hedblom, M., Righetti, G., Kutz, O. (2021). Deciphering The Cookie Monster: A case study in impossible combinations. 12th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2021, 14-18 September (online). More information
Hedblom, M., Pomarlan, M., Porzel, R., Malaka, R., Beetz, M. (2021). Dynamic action selection using image schema-based reasoning for robots. Joint Ontology Workshops 2021 (JOWO 2021), Bolzano, Italy, September 11-18, 2021. More information
Hedblom, M., Kutz, O. (2019). Conceptual puzzle pieces: An image schema experiment on object conceptualisation. Cham: Springer, 11th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2019, Trento, Italy, November 20–22, 2019. More information
Guizzardi, G., Figueiredo, G., Hedblom, M., Poels, G. (2019). Ontology-based model abstraction. The IEEE Thirteen International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, May 29-31, Brussels, Belgium. More information
Hedblom, M., Kutz, O., Peñaloza, R., Guizzardi, G. (2019). What’s cracking?: How image schema combinations can model conceptualisations of events. 7th International Workshop on Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence (C3GI 2018), Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, December 13-15, 2018. More information
Hedblom, M., Kutz, O. (2019). Hidden meaning: Using image schema violations to expose hidden semantical structures in metaphors. Joint Ontology Workshops 2019 (JOWO 2019), Graz, Austria, September 23-25, 2019. More information
Verdonck, M., Hedblom, M., Guizzardi, G., Figueiredo, G., Gailly, F., Poels, G. (2019). An Empirical Study Concerning Ontology-Driven Modularization and Ontology-Neutral Modularization Techniques. 13th International Workshop on Value Modelling and Business Ontologies. More information
Hedblom, M., Kutz, O., Peñaloza, R., Guizzardi, G. (2019). Hold—Drop—Smash: Image Schema Combinations and Complex Events. AIC 2019, Manchester, UK. More information
Figueiredo, G., Duchardt, A., Hedblom, M., Guizzardi, G. (2018). Breaking into pieces: An ontological approach to conceptual model complexity management. 12th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), 29-31 May 2018, Nantes, France. More information
Kutz, O., Troquard, N., Hedblom, M., Porello, D. (2018). The mouse and the ball: Towards a cognitively-based and ontologically-grounded logic of agency. Amsterdam: IOS Press, 10th International Conference (FOIS 2018), 17-21 September 2018, Cape Town, South Africa. More information
Hedblom, M., Peñaloza, R., Guizzardi, G., Kutz, O. (2018). Under the super-suit: What superheroes can reveal about inherited properties in conceptual blending. 9th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2018, Salamanca, Spain, 25-29 June 2018. More information
Gromann, D., Hedblom, M. (2018). Body-mind-language: Multilingual knowledge extraction based on embodied cognition. 5th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition (AIC 2017), Larnaca, Cyprus, November 1-3, 2017. More information
Hedblom, M., Gromann, D., Kutz, O. (2018). IN, OUT and through: Formalising some dynamic aspects of the image schema CONTAINMENT. SAC 2018: Symposium on Applied Computing, Pau, France, April 9-13, 2018. More information
Hedblom, M. (2017). Beneath the paint: A visual journey through conceptual metaphor violation. Joint Ontology Workshops 2017 (JOWO 2017), Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, September 21–23, 2017. More information
Hedblom, M., Kutz, O., Mossakowski, T., Neuhaus, F. (2017). Between CONTACT and support: Introducing a logic for image schemas and directed movement. Cham: Springer, XVIth International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Bari, Italy, November 14-17, 2017. More information
Macbeth, J., Gromann, D., Hedblom, M. (2017). Image schemas and conceptual dependency primitives: A comparison. Joint Ontology Workshops 2017 (JOWO 2017), Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, September 21–23, 2017. More information
Gromann, D., Hedblom, M. (2017). Kinesthetic Mind-Reader: A Method to Identify Image Schemas in Natural Language. Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS), 12-14 May 2017, Troy, New York, United States,. More information
Hedblom, M., Kutz, O. (2017). Image schemas as conceptual building blocks for everyday objects: an empirical study. AISC, Bologna, Italy, December, 2017. More information
Hedblom, M., Kutz, O. (2017). Multi-modal image schemas. ICMC Conference, Osnabrueck, Germany, June, 2017. More information
Gromann, D., Hedblom, M. (2016). Breaking down finance: A method for concept simplification by identifying movement structures from the image schema PATH-following. 2016 Joint Ontology Workshops 2016, Episode 2: The French Summer of Ontology, JOWO 2016, Annecy, France, July 6–9, 2016. More information
Kutz, O., Neuhaus, F., Hedblom, M., Mossakowski, T., Codescu, M. (2016). Ontology patterns with DOWL: The case of blending. 29th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2016), Cape Town, South Africa, April 22-25, 2016. More information
Hedblom, M. (2016). Image schemas as a skeleton of concept invention and metaphor. The 11th Conference of the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor, July 1–4, 2016, Berlin, Germany. More information
Hedblom, M., Kutz, O. (2015). Shape up, baby! perception, image schemas, and shapes in concept formation. Third Interdisciplinary Workshop SHAPES 3.0 — The Shape of Things 2015, co-located with CONTEXT 2015, Larnaca, Cyprus, November 2, 2015. More information
Hedblom, M., Kutz, O., Neuhaus, F. (2015). Image schemas as families of theories. 4th International Workshop on Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence, 25 June 2015, Istanbul, Turkey. More information
Hedblom, M., Kutz, O., Neuhaus, F. (2014). On the cognitive and logical role of image schemas in computational conceptual blending. Second International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition (AIC 2014), Torino, Italy, November 26-27, 2014. More information

Conference proceedings (editor)

Hedblom, M., Kutz, O. (Eds.). (2023). ISD7 2023, The Seventh Image Schema Day: Proceedings of the Seventh Image Schema Day, co-located with The 20th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2023). More information
Aussenac-Gilles, N., Hahmann, T., Galton, A., Hedblom, M. (Eds.). (2023). Formal ontology in information systems: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference (FOIS 2023). , Amsterdam: IOS Press More information
Hedblom, M., Kantosalo, A., Confalonieri, R., Kutz, O., Veale, T. (Eds.). (2022). Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity. More information
Sales, T., Hedblom, M., Tan, H. (Eds.). (2022). Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops 2022, Episode VIII: The Svear Sommar of Ontology. More information
Hedblom, M., Kutz, O. (Eds.). (2022). ISD6 2022: The Sixth Image Schema Day 2022. More information
Kutz, O., Hedblom, M. (Eds.). (2018). TriCoLore 2018: Creativity - Cognition - Computation: Joint Proceedings of the Workshops C3GI: The 7th International Workshop on Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence, ISD4: The 4th Image Schema Day, and SCORE: From Image Schemas to Cognitive Robotics. More information