The acquisition of survey knowledge for local and global landmark configurations under time pressure

Credé, Sascha; Thrash, Tyler; Hölscher, Christoph; Fabrikant, Sara Irina

doi:10.1080/13875868.2019.1569016

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“…Similar to previous research, the results of this study showed that participants relied on local reference frames rather than global reference frames or orientation-free representations. Other studies conducted in virtual environments also found no advantages of global landmarks on learning (Credé 2019 ). In another experiment, participants navigated four virtual environments with different landmark conditions: only global landmarks, only local landmarks, global and local landmarks and no landmark conditions (Gardony et al 2011 ).…”

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Landmarks in wayfinding: a review of the existing literature

2021

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Landmarks are accepted as one of the vital elements in both virtual and real environments during wayfinding tasks. This paper provides an overview of the existing literature on the selection of landmarks in wayfinding mostly in large-scale urban environments and outdoors by discussing two main aspects of landmarks: visibility and salience. Environments and layouts used in previous studies, different tasks given to people and the main findings are explained and compared. Summary tables are created from these findings. The review concludes that there is mostly a consensus on the selection of landmarks, when considering their location. Accordingly, landmarks on route and also at decision points (with a turn) are more effective during wayfinding tasks. However, visibility of landmarks as well as visual and cognitive saliency need to be further investigated using different environments, tasks or different levels of familiarity with environments.

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Section: Visibility Of Landmarksmentioning

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Landmarks in wayfinding: a review of the existing literature

2021

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“…Arousal related to an affective response has also been shown to impact how navigators process or learn an environment. During learning, when presented with a stressor (time pressure), individuals learned local landmarks (only one building present at a time) more accurately than global landmarks (multiple high-rise skyscrapers visible simultaneously; Credé, Thrash, Hölscher, & Fabrikant, 2019 ). This suggests that, when aroused, people rely more heavily on landmarks than landmark configurations.…”

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Uncertainty promotes information-seeking actions, but what information?

2020

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Navigating an unfamiliar city almost certainly brings out uncertainty about getting from place to place. This uncertainty, in turn, triggers information gathering. While navigational uncertainty is common, little is known about what type of information people seek when they are uncertain. The primary choices for information types with environments include landmarks (distal or local), landmark configurations (relation between two or more landmarks), and a distinct geometry, at least for some environments. Uncertainty could lead individuals to more likely seek one of these information types. Extant research informs both predictions about and empirical work exploring this question. This review covers relevant cognitive literature and then suggests empirical approaches to better understand information-seeking actions triggered by uncertainty. Notably, we propose that examining continuous navigation data can provide important insights into information seeking. Benefits of continuous data will be elaborated through one paradigm, spatial reorientation, which intentionally induces uncertainty through disorientation and cue conflict. While this and other methods have been used previously, data have primarily reflected only the final choice. Continuous behavior during a task can better reveal the cognition-action loop contributing to spatial learning and decision making.

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“…Years of spatial cognition and navigation research point to vast individual differences in navigational abilities Montello, 1998;Weisberg & Newcombe, 2018) and situational strategies (e.g., navigating under stress; Credé et al, 2019;Frei et al 2016;Gagnon et al, 2018;Ruginski et al, 2018). Designing navigation systems that take into account and adapt to these individual abilities, preferences, and contexts remains a challenge.…”

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Designing mobile spatial navigation systems from the user's perspective: An interdisciplinary review

Ruginski¹,

Giudice²,

Creem-Regehr³

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Navigation systems have become increasingly available and more complex over the past few decades as maps have changed from largely static visual and paper-based representations to interactive and multimodal computerized systems. In this introductory article to the Special Issue on Human-computer Interaction, Geographic Information, and Navigation, we review literature across a variety of fields to generate nine design principles to guide future research and development of navigation systems. Specifically, we suggest making mobile navigation systems more accessible and multimodal, which will make the systems more inclusive and usable for all types of users. We also introduce the research articles contributed to the present special issue and suggest future research directions to empirically evaluate emerging and untested features of user-adapted and context-aware mobile navigation systems.

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The acquisition of survey knowledge for local and global landmark configurations under time pressure

Cited by 20 publications

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Landmarks in wayfinding: a review of the existing literature

Landmarks in wayfinding: a review of the existing literature

Uncertainty promotes information-seeking actions, but what information?

Designing mobile spatial navigation systems from the user's perspective: An interdisciplinary review

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