Limiting the reliance on navigation assistance with navigation instructions containing emotionally salient narratives for confident wayfinding

Lanini-Maggi, Sara; Hilton, Christopher; Fabrikant, Sara I.

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.102151

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“…Однако исследователи обращают внимание на то, что сами по себе GPS-данные малоинформативны; перспективными будут работы, где данные о перемещениях людей будут дополнены данными об индивидуальных различиях [98], в т. ч. об уровне тревожности [99; 100]. Более того, использование навигаторов в повседневной жизни само может стать причиной изменения навигационных стратегий, и многие ученые сейчас обсуждают то, как использование разных стратегий при использовании навигаторов может помочь снизить негативный эффект их повсеместного использования [101].…”

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Challenges and further directions of research on spatial thinking strategies

Bartseva,

Likhanov,

Soldatova

2023

Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. Series: Humanities and Social Sciences

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Spatial thinking (spatial ability) is an important predictor of success in mathematics, engineering, science and other related fields. Spatial performance is related to a large number of factors, including socio-economic and biological influences. Strategies of spatial thinking, understood as the approach, consciously or unconsciously, chosen to solve a spatial problem, is one of the factors that contribute to overall performance. The literature discusses strategies for solving different spatial tasks, including mental rotation, spatial visualisation, navigation, and mechanical reasoning, which are partly overlapping but also have some distinct features. In this review, we have summarised more than one hundred studies published in leading international journals, identified the main trends, insights and limitations of these studies, and presented possible future directions of this research area. A special emphasis is placed on the contemporary methods for studying spatial strategies, including eye tracking, neuroimaging (EEG, fMRI, fNIRS), non-invasive brain stimulation, and tracking location in space (VR mazes, GPS data). The practical significance of this research is discussed. For example, identifying strategies optimal for performance in a specific task can benefit education, engineering psychology, logistics and usability.

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Challenges and further directions of research on spatial thinking strategies

Bartseva,

Likhanov,

Soldatova

2023

Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. Series: Humanities and Social Sciences

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Towards neuroadaptive navigation assistance to reduce spatial de-skilling

Fabrikant

2024

Cogn Process

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Maps have been invaluable navigation aids for millennia and thus have been critical for human survival. The increasing popularity of and high dependence on digital, location-aware assistive navigation technology, however, has been shown to divert our attention from the environment and to negatively influence innate spatial abilities. To mitigate this, neuroadaptive mobile geographic information displays (namGIDs) are proposed that respond in real-time to navigators’ cognitive task demands and wayfinder’s situated visuo-spatial attention needs. In doing so, namGIDs may not only help navigators maintain navigation efficiency but more importantly, also continuously scaffold spatial learning. To do this, the proposed navigation assistance must strike the appropriate balance between welcomed mobility efficiency gains while limiting human spatial deskilling. Leveraging neuroadaptive cartography, we can ensure to remain effective navigators, empowered to explore the world with confidence.

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Improved Navigation Performance Through Memory Triggering Maps: A Neurocartographic Approach

Dickmann,

Keil,

Korte

et al. 2024

KN J. Cartogr. Geogr. Inf.

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When using navigation devices the "cognitive map" created in the user's mind is much more fragmented, incomplete and inaccurate, compared to the mental model of space created when reading a conventional printed map. As users become more dependent on digital devices that reduce orientation skills, there is an urgent need to develop more efficient navigation systems that promote orientation skills. This paper proposes to consider brain processes for creating more efficient maps that use a network of optimally located cardinal lines and landmarks organized to support and stabilize the neurocognitive structures in the brain that promote spatial orientation. This new approach combines neurocognitive insights with classical research on the efficiency of cartographic visualizations. Recent neuroscientific findings show that spatially tuned neurons could be linked to navigation processes. In particular, the activity of grid cells, which appear to be used to process metric information about space, can be influenced by environmental stimuli such as walls or boundaries. Grid cell activity could be used to create a new framework for map-based interfaces that primarily considers the brain structures associated with the encoding and retrieval of spatial information. The new framework proposed in this paper suggests to arrange map symbols in a specific way that the map design helps to stabilize grid cell firing in the brain and by this improve spatial orientation and navigational performance. Spatially oriented cells are active in humans not only when moving in space, but also when imagining moving through an area—such as when reading a map. It seems likely that the activity of grid cells can be stabilized simply by map symbols that are perceived when reading a map.

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Limiting the reliance on navigation assistance with navigation instructions containing emotionally salient narratives for confident wayfinding

Cited by 4 publications

References 49 publications

Challenges and further directions of research on spatial thinking strategies

Challenges and further directions of research on spatial thinking strategies

Towards neuroadaptive navigation assistance to reduce spatial de-skilling

Improved Navigation Performance Through Memory Triggering Maps: A Neurocartographic Approach

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