Cognitive and gender factors influencing navigation in a virtual environment

Cutmore, Timothy; Hine, Trevor John; Maberly, Kerry J.; Langford, Nicole M.; Hawgood, Grant

doi:10.1006/ijhc.2000.0389

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“…The authors speculate that programming ability is related to an ability to navigate through the information space using the same skills as in the real world. Good spatial ability has been related to the development of survey knowledge, equivalent to a well-formed cognitive map of an environment (Cutmore, Hine, Maberly, Langford, & Hawgood, 2000).…”

Section: Spatial Ability and Mental Modelsmentioning

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Spatial Ability and Learning to Program

Jones¹,

Burnett²

2008

Human Technology

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Section: Spatial Ability and Mental Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spatial Ability and Learning to Program

Jones¹,

Burnett²

2008

Human Technology

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“…Another approach to understanding the diVerences in diVerent modes of spatial learning has been to focus on the perspective in which information is being learned, with the ground-level perspective and the aerial perspective intended to provide leverage on exploratory navigation and map reading, respectively (Cutmore, Hine, Maberly, Langford, & Hawgood, 2000;Mellet et al, 2000;Shelton & Gabrieli, 2002Shelton & McNamara, 2004;Shelton, Yamamoto, Fields, & Spence, 2006). In these simpliWed conditions, ground-level encoding generally consists of viewing a virtual environment from the perspective of an observer walking around within the environment, whereas aerial encoding consists of viewing a virtual environment by panning over the environment from an external perspective above space 1 .…”

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Fixed versus dynamic orientations in environmental learning from ground-level and aerial perspectives

Shelton

Pippitt

2006

Psychological Research

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Ground-level and aerial perspectives in virtual space provide simplified conditions for investigating differences between exploratory navigation and map reading in large-scale environmental learning. General similarities and differences in ground-level and aerial encoding have been identified, but little is known about the specific characteristics that differentiate them. One such characteristic is the need to process orientation; ground-level encoding (and navigation) typically requires dynamic orientations, whereas aerial encoding (and map reading) is typically conducted in a fixed orientation. The present study investigated how this factor affected spatial processing by comparing ground-level and aerial encoding to a hybrid condition: aerial-with-turns. Experiment 1 demonstrated that scene recognition was sensitive to both perspective (ground-level or aerial) and orientation (dynamic or fixed). Experiment 2 investigated brain activation during encoding, revealing regions that were preferentially activated perspective as in previous studies (Shelton and Gabrieli in J Neurosci 22:2711-2717, 2002), but also identifying regions that were preferentially activated as a function of the presence or absence of turns. Together, these results differentiated the behavioral and brain consequences attributable to changes in orientation from those attributable to other characteristics of ground-level and aerial perspectives, providing leverage on how orientation information is processed in everyday spatial learning.

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“…The distributions representing the data on dispersal of the treasure hunters during the experiments are shown in figure 5 for both VE models. Gender is found as a factor-influencing navigation in VE: males were reported to acquire route knowledge from landmarks faster than females [40] and to spend less time in locating targets [41]. Interestingly, the form of the empirically observed distributions ( figure 5) was neither gender-specific nor sensitive to the different global structure of the environments.…”

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Exploration–exploitation trade-off features a saltatory search behaviour

Volchenkov

Helbach

Tscherepanow

et al. 2013

J. R. Soc. Interface.

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Searching experiments conducted in different virtual environments over a gender-balanced group of people revealed a gender irrelevant scale-free spread of searching activity on large spatio-temporal scales. We have suggested and solved analytically a simple statistical model of the coherentnoise type describing the exploration-exploitation trade-off in humans ('should I stay' or 'should I go'). The model exhibits a variety of saltatory behaviours, ranging from Lévy flights occurring under uncertainty to Brownian walks performed by a treasure hunter confident of the eventual success.

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Cognitive and gender factors influencing navigation in a virtual environment

Cited by 113 publications

References 48 publications

Spatial Ability and Learning to Program

Spatial Ability and Learning to Program

Fixed versus dynamic orientations in environmental learning from ground-level and aerial perspectives

Exploration–exploitation trade-off features a saltatory search behaviour

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