An Interface for Crowd-Sourcing Spatial Models of Commonsense

Commonsense is a challenge not only for representation and reasoning but also for large scale knowledge engineering required to capture the breadth of our ‘everyday’ world. One approach to knowledge engineering is to ‘outsource’ the effort to the public through games that generate structured commonsense knowledge from user play. To date, such games have focused on symbolic and textual knowledge. However, an effective commonsense reasoning system will require spatial and physical reasoning capabilities. In this paper, I propose a tool for gathering commonsense information from ordinary people. It is a user-friendly 3D sculpting tool for modeling and annotating models of physical objects and spaces.