Familiarity and Environmental Representations of a City: A Self-Report Study

Piccardi, Laura; Risetti, Monica; Nori, Raffaella

doi:10.2466/01.13.17.pr0.109.4.309-326

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“…We calculated the Cronbach's alpha. The overall value for the total scale was .79, which is good (Nunnally and Bernstein 1994), and similar to that obtained by Piccardi et al (2011a), namely .74. As far as the individual items are concerned, Cronbach's alpha was .73 for SOD, .92 for TK and .70 for SA as well as for WA.…”

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“…The short version of the FSCS (Piccardi et al 2011a) is made up of 18 items: 5 items (1-2-4-5-8) provide a general evaluation of participants' beliefs about their SOD, for example ''How is your SOD? '', 4 items (11-12-13-14) assess participants' beliefs about their town knowledge (TK) such as ''How well do you know your neighbourhood?…”

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“…We investigated this topic using a short version of the Familiarity and Spatial Cognitive Style Scale (FSCS: Piccardi et al 2011a). Unlike other scales that measure the self-estimates of SA, the FSCS takes into account different aspects of this skill.…”

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The present study aimed to analyse beliefs that men and women have with respect to their sense of direction (SOD) and whether they correlate with spatial environmental task performance. Eighty-four students filled in the short version of the Familiarity and Spatial Cognitive Style Scale to evaluate beliefs on their SOD, knowledge of the city (TK), spatial ability (SA) and wayfinding (WA) and performed three spatial environmental tasks. Results showed that gender did not predict the performance on the spatial environmental tasks, whereas it can be predicted by participants' beliefs related to their SOD and TK. The findings point out the need to identify specific training aimed at improving women's metacognitive skills in order to delete or reduce gender differences in SA.

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“…In order to exclude general visual and topographical short-term memory deficits in our sample of volunteers, all participants took the Corsi block-tapping test (CBT ;Corsi 1972; for the test procedure, see Piccardi et al 2013) and the Walking Corsi Test (WalCT) to assess both visual shortterm memory (VSTM) and topographical short-term memory (TSTM; Piccardi et al 2008Piccardi et al , 2013.…”

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A dedicated system for topographical working memory: evidence from domain-specific interference tests

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In the present study, we used single- and dual-task conditions to investigate the nature of topographical working memory to better understand what type of task can hamper performance during navigation. During dual-task conditions, we considered four different sources of interference: motor (M), spatial motor (SM), verbal (i.e. articulatory suppression AS) and spatial environmental (SE). In order to assess the nature of topographical working memory, we used the Walking Corsi Test, asking the participants to perform two tasks simultaneously (M, SM, AS and SE). Our results showed that only spatial-environmental interference hampers the execution of a topographical working memory task, suggesting a task-domain-specific effect. We also found general gender differences in the topographical working memory capabilities: men were more proficient than women, regardless of the type of interferences. However, like men, women performed worse when a spatial-environmental interference was present.

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“…Piccardi, Risetti, & Nori, 2011). Participants, who grew up in Regensburg may be far more familiar with the city than persons, who moved to the city, consequently.…”

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Empirically measuring salience of objects for use in pedestrian navigation

Kattenbeck

2015

Proceedings of the 23rd SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

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Auch wenn sie es vehement von sich weisen würden, so haben meine Eltern großen Anteil an dieser, meiner Dissertation. Sie gaben mir von Kindesbeinen an die Freiheit, mich mit dem Nachdenken auseinanderzusetzen. Glaubt mir, Mama und Papa, ohne diese Freiheit wäre ich heute nicht der, der ich bin.Schließlich danke ich meiner über alles geliebten Frau Anita. Wir sind fast genau so lange verheiratet, wie es gedauert hat, bis ich nun mein Promotionsverfahren erfolgreich abschließen konnte. In diesen Jahren haben wir einiges zusammen erlebt und durchgemacht.Du, Anita, hast immer zu mir gehalten und mich in Allem und mit Allem unterstützt.Ohne Dich, Anita, wäre diese Arbeit undenkbar.Dir, Anita, widme ich diese Arbeit.vi A B S T R A C T background Humans usually refer to landmarks when they give route directions to pedestrians. One of the reasons why current mobile pedestrian navigation systems do not yet mimic this mode of communication is the lack of available data sources. The usefulness of a crowd-sourced data acquisition approach to overcome this problem has long been mooted. However, to date no empirically sound way of measuring the salience of objects by means of surveys exists.goal Given this background, this doctoral work has three goals:1. To achieve a sound way of measuring salience and its subdimensions, i.e. visibility in advance, cognitive salience, prototypicality, structural salience, and visual salience based on taking dimensions revealed in earlier studies systematically and simultaneously into account.2. To find subgroups of visual features among the large number of visual attributes known from the literature.3. To find the most important subdimensions of salience by means of estimating two different structural equation models. Model I is based on assumptions of independence among subdimensions, whereas model II reflects hypotheses of mediation.Taken as a whole, achieving these goals will foster both, the advancement of theories of salience and landmark acquisition methods.methodology A large scale, in-situ experiment was implemented, trying to overcome weaknesses of earlier attempts made to estimate salience. An vii appropriate sample size of buildings and non-buildings was calculated a priori (n obj = 360). Objects were randomly selected based on their geographical coordinates and randomly grouped into n r = 55 routes. Participants were required to rate objects by means of a survey. The questions were derived from empirical evidence found in earlier studies. Each route was walked by two different participants (n = 112), id est (i.e.) two ratings per object were collected for data analysis.findings Model I and model II were analyzed using PLS Path Modeling and consistent PLS Path Modeling, respectively. The measurement models proposed showed a good fit, although some weaknesses were identified for prototypicality and cognitive salience. Geometrical aspects as well as features like (visual) age turned out to have a stronger impact on visual salience than color. Model I did not yield reasonable struct...

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Familiarity and Environmental Representations of a City: A Self-Report Study

Cited by 54 publications

References 35 publications

I believe I’m good at orienting myself… But is that true?

I believe I’m good at orienting myself… But is that true?

A dedicated system for topographical working memory: evidence from domain-specific interference tests

Empirically measuring salience of objects for use in pedestrian navigation

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