Perception and Recall of Landmarks for Personal Navigation in Nature at Night Versus Day

Kettunen, Pyry; Putto, Katja; Gyselinck, Valérie; Krause, Christina M.; Sarjakoski, L. Tiina

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-07926-4_22

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“…Sketch maps are often combined with the think aloud procedure as a complementary data collection method (e.g. Kettunen, Putto, Gyselinck, Krause, & Sarjakoski, 2015;Ooms et al, 2015a) because thinking aloud gives insights into the user's unfiltered thoughts. Thinking aloud itself, however, has the disadvantage that it also consumes part of the user's memory capacity.…”

Section: Sketch Mapsmentioning

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Digital sketch maps and eye tracking statistics as instruments to obtain insights into spatial cognition

Keskin

Ooms

Doğru

et al. 2018

JEMR

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This paper explores map users’ cognitive processes in learning, acquiring and remembering information presented via screen maps. In this context, we conducted a mixed-methods user experiment employing digital sketch maps and eye tracking. On the one hand, the performance of the participants was assessed based on the order with which the objects were drawn and the influence of visual variables (e.g. presence & location, size, shape, color). On the other hand, trial durations and eye tracking statistics such as average duration of fixations, and number of fixations per seconds were compared. Moreover, selected AoIs (Area of Interests) were explored to gain a deeper insight on visual behavior of map users. Depending on the normality of the data, we used either two-way ANOVA or Mann-Whitney U test to inspect the significance of the results. Based on the evaluation of the drawing order, we observed that experts and males drew roads first whereas; novices and females focused more on hydrographic object. According to the assessment of drawn elements, no significant differences emerged between neither experts and novices, nor females and males for the retrieval of spatial information presented on 2D maps with a simple design and content. The differences in trial durations between novices and experts were not statistically significant while both studying and drawing. Similarly, no significant difference occurred between female and male participants for either studying or drawing. Eye tracking metrics also supported these findings. For average duration of fixation, there was found no significant difference between experts and novices, as well as between females and males. Similarly, no significant differences were found for the mean number of fixation.

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Section: Sketch Mapsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital sketch maps and eye tracking statistics as instruments to obtain insights into spatial cognition

Keskin

Ooms

Doğru

et al. 2018

JEMR

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“…Experiencing this environment yielded a significant gain of 14.23% (12.81 • ) on the PTSOT. In non-urban open regions, the environment is full of signs, markers, mountain peaks, etc., that can be used as identifiable landmarks for human wayfinding [37,38] Spatial training within virtual open environments has not been examined to date. It is important, therefore, to study how a spatial training activity that uses a first-person virtual environment with a natural landscape may influence improvements in spatial thinking and spatial orientation.…”

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Think Spatially With Game Engine

Carrera

Gunalp

Saorín

et al. 2020

IJGI

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Spatial thinking and spatial orientation skills are involved in tasks related to the recognition of landforms, mapping, spatial interpretation, and landscape analysis, and can be developed with specific training. Game engines can facilitate the creation of 3D virtual landforms and provide powerful rendering engines for the graphical representation of landscapes from a first-person perspective. In the present research, 27 engineering students participated in a workshop in a first-person virtual environment using landforms created with a game engine. The Spatial Thinking Ability Test and the Perspective Taking-Spatial Orientation Test measured improvement in spatial thinking and spatial orientation as a result of this workshop. The gain in spatial thinking (8.31%) is within the range observed in previous research in the field of geography using a web-based GIS strategy (7.31%–10.00%). The gain in Spatial Orientation skill (15.76%) is comparable with previous research using both first-person strategies based in urban virtual environments (14.23%), and Spatial Data Infrastructures (gains between 21.17% and 21.34%). Participants with better self-reported sense of direction had better performance on the spatial orientation test.

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“…Thus, points of interest or routes displayed in the maps might differ greatly depending on the time at which the map is used (Nivala & Sarjakoski, 2003). Time of day might also be relevant (Kettunen, Putto, Gyselinck, Krause, & Sarjakoski, 2015). Many LBS, for example, show only nearby options with availability at the time of search (e.g.…”

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Designing across map use contexts: a research agenda

Griffin¹,

White

Fish

et al. 2017

International Journal of Cartography

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The explosion of map use in the past few decades as part of everyday activities, accelerated through the digital production and dissemination of maps and the availability of low-cost, location-aware devices, has made the job of cartographers and map display designers more challenging. Yet, how do these recent changes affect effective map design? Can we accurately predict which designs will work for a given context? We investigate the concepts of design transferability and context and their potential to help us create map design outcomes that are effective for varying map use situations. We then present a model for operationalizing map use context to support evaluating map design transferability and pose several open research questions that need to be answered to support operationalizing map use context. This is followed by a research agenda that identifies research opportunities related to key research needs that will underpin transferable map design. RÉSUMÉ

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Perception and Recall of Landmarks for Personal Navigation in Nature at Night Versus Day

Cited by 11 publications

References 35 publications

Digital sketch maps and eye tracking statistics as instruments to obtain insights into spatial cognition

Digital sketch maps and eye tracking statistics as instruments to obtain insights into spatial cognition

Think Spatially With Game Engine

Designing across map use contexts: a research agenda

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