Routen- und Überblickswissen - konzeptuelle Überlegungen

Herrmann, Theo; Schweizer, Karin; Janzen, Gabriele; Katz, Steffi

doi:10.1007/s001970050067

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“…In the wayfinding literature the distinction between landmark, route, and survey knowledge has received a lot of attention [e.g., 12,15,22,27,30,31]. Landmarks are salient locations in the human environment such as a church or a square.…”

Section: Knowledge In Wayfindingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In rough analogy to Lynch's (1960) famous phenomenology of urban space, the distinction between landmark, route, and survey knowledge has received a lot of attention in the wayfinding literature (for example, Golledge, 1999;Herrmann et al, 1998;Kitchin and Freundschuh, 2000;Montello et al, 2004;Piaget and Inhelder, 1967;Siegel and White, 1975). While landmarks such as a church or a square are salient locations in the human environment, the psychological concept of landmark knowledge refers to the recognition of these locations: for example,``I know this esplanade, so I've been here before.''…”

Section: Knowledge In Wayfindingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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From Isovists via Mental Representations to Behaviour: First Steps toward Closing the Causal Chain

Meilinger

Franz

Bülthoff

2012

Environ Plann B Plann Des

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Abstract. This study addresses the interrelations between human wayfinding performance, the mental representation of routes, and the geometrical layout of path intersections. The virtual reality based empirical experiment consisted of a route learning and reproduction task and two choice reaction tasks measuring the acquired knowledge of route decision points. In order to relate the recorded behavioural data to the geometry of the environment, a specific adaptation of isovist-based spatial analysis was developed that accounts for directional bias in human spatial perception and representation. Taken together, the applied analyses provided conclusive evidence for correspondences between geometrical properties of environments as captured by isovists and their mental representation.

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Section: Knowledge In Wayfindingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Knowledge In Wayfindingmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Isovists via Mental Representations to Behaviour: First Steps toward Closing the Causal Chain

Meilinger

Franz

Bülthoff

2012

Environ Plann B Plann Des

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“…As people interact with external representations, they form an internal cognitive model of the structure, organization, and relationship of the elements in the representations (Jonassen et al, 1993;Spence, 2001;Sternberg, 1999). A large body of research refers to this internal mental model as a cognitive map (for instance, see: Chen, 1998;Herrmann et al, 1998;Jacobs, 2003;Laszlo et al, 1996;Mellet et al, 2000;Otter and Johnson, 2000;Ruddle et al, 2000;Spence, 1999). Cognitive maps develop by experiencing space and by interacting with it (Herrmann et al, 1998;Kearney and Kaplan, 1997;Nitsche and Thomas, 2003).…”

Section: Cognitive Maps: Formation and Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 98%

Designing interfaces that support formation of cognitive maps of transitional processes: an empirical study

Sedig

Rowhani

Liang

2005

Interacting with Computers

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Many conditions, phenomena, and concepts are of a transitional nature. Transitional processes involve change from one form to another, such as biological, chemical, and geological metamorphoses. Transitional processes take place in time-space and are not always easy to encode, communicate, and understand. The purpose of this research is to investigate how to design humancomputer interfaces that support users in their formation of cognitive maps of transitional processes. To conduct this investigation, geometric shapes were used as the testbed, and their metamorphic transformations were captured and communicated using three different interface styles: temporally stacked, spatially distributed, and spatio-temporal. The usability and effectiveness of each interface was evaluated. The results of the study indicate that the spatio-temporal interface is the most effective of the three interfaces. The findings of this research imply that many kinds of transitional processes, such as rock metamorphoses, historical changes, or economical processes, may best be explored and understood using spatio-temporal interfaces. q Interacting with Computers 17 (2005) 419-452 www.elsevier.com/locate/intcom 0953-5438/$ -see front matter q

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“…Schumacher, Wender & Rothkegel, 2000;Buhl, Katz, Schweizer & Herrmann, 2000;Herrmann, Schweizer, Janzen & Katz, 1998). Route directions are especially apt for investigating the relation between two types of external representations, graphical and linguistic, and potential intermediatory internal representations and principles (cf., e.g.…”

Section: Internal and External Spatial Representationsmentioning

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Pictorial Representations of Routes: Chunking Route Segments during Comprehension

Klippel

Tappe

Habel

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Route directions are usually conveyed either by graphical means, i.e. by illustrating the route in a map or drawing a sketch-maps or, linguistically by giving spoken or written route instructions, or by combining both kinds of external representations. In most cases route directions are given in advance, i.e. prior to the actual traveling. But they may also be communicated quasisimultaneously to the movement along the route, for example, in the case of incar navigation systems. We dub this latter kind accompanying route directions. Accompanying route direction may be communicated in a dialogue, i.e. with hearer feedback, or, in a monologue, i.e. without hearer feedback. In this article we focus on accompanying route directions without hearer feedback. We start with theoretical considerations from spatial cognition research about the interaction between internal and external representations interconnecting linguistic aspects of verbal route directions with findings from cognitive psychology on route knowledge. In particular we are interested in whether speakers merge elementary route segments into higher order chunks in accompanying route directions. This process, which we identify as spatial chunking, is subsequently investigated in a case study. We have speakers produce accompanying route directions without hearer feedback on the basis of a route that is presented in a spatially veridical map. We vary presentation mode of the route: In the static mode the route in presented as a discrete line, in the dynamic mode, it is presented as a moving dot. Similarities across presentation modes suggest overall organization principles for route directions, which are both independent of the type of route direction-in advance versus accompanying-and of presentation mode-static versus dynamic. We conclude that spatial chunking is a robust and efficient conceptual process that is partly independent of preplanning.

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Routen- und Überblickswissen - konzeptuelle Überlegungen

Cited by 40 publications

References 43 publications

From Isovists via Mental Representations to Behaviour: First Steps toward Closing the Causal Chain

From Isovists via Mental Representations to Behaviour: First Steps toward Closing the Causal Chain

Designing interfaces that support formation of cognitive maps of transitional processes: an empirical study

Pictorial Representations of Routes: Chunking Route Segments during Comprehension

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