The Role of Landmark Modality and Familiarity in Human Wayfinding

Hamburger, Kai; Röser, Florian

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“…To systematically investigate this question, we used our virtual environment S quareland (Hamburger & Knauff, ; Fig. left), which has successfully been employed in many previous experiments of our research group (Hamburger & Röser, ; Karimpur & Hamburger, ; Röser, ; Röser et al, ). S quareland basically consists of a 10 × 10 block raster with orthogonal intersections.…”

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“…In several experiments, we demonstrated that wayfinding performances based on visual, auditory, and semantic cues are comparable and that such cues are almost equally suitable for spatial orientation. Overall, spatial cognition researchers seem to have a strong bias towards vision, which we have criticized several times (Hamburger & R€ oser, 2014;Knauff, 2013;R€ oser et al, 2011). So, can odors also serve as landmarks in human wayfinding?…”

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“…Can olfactory information also be represented in cognitive maps? Research on landmark‐based wayfinding mostly focused on the visual (e.g., Lynch, ; Presson & Montello, ; Sorrows & Hirtle, ), and only few on the auditory features of landmarks (e.g., Hamburger & Röser, ; Karimpur & Hamburger, ; Röser, Hamburger, & Knauff, ). In several experiments, we demonstrated that wayfinding performances based on visual, auditory, and semantic cues are comparable and that such cues are almost equally suitable for spatial orientation.…”

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Odors Can Serve as Landmarks in Human Wayfinding

Hamburger

Knauff

2019

Cognitive Science

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Scientists have shown that many non‐human animals such as ants, dogs, or rats are very good at using smells to find their way through their environments. But are humans also capable of navigating through their environment based on olfactory cues? There is not much research on this topic, a gap that the present research seeks to bridge. We here provide one of the first empirical studies investigating the possibility of using olfactory cues as landmarks in human wayfinding. Forty subjects participated in a piloting study to determine the olfactory material for the main experiment. Then, 24 subjects completed a wayfinding experiment with 12 odors as orientation cues. Our results are astonishing: Participants were rather good at what we call “odor‐based wayfinding.” This indicates that the ability of humans to use olfactory cues for navigation is often underestimated. We discuss two different cognitive explanations and rule out the idea that our results are just an instance of sequential learning. Rather, we argue that humans can enrich their cognitive map of the environment with olfactory landmarks and may use them for wayfinding.

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Odors Can Serve as Landmarks in Human Wayfinding

Hamburger

Knauff

2019

Cognitive Science

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“…We assume visual salience – that is how much an object stands out from its immediate surrounding (e.g., Caduff and Timpf, 2008) – and semantic salience of landmarks – that is for example its name, meaning, or function (Raubal and Winter, 2002; Nothegger et al, 2004; Hamburger and Knauff, 2011) – to be less important than the structural salience (Hamburger and Röser, 2011, 2014; Röser et al, 2012a). Therefore, we here try to control for these aspects and rather focus on the structural aspects as we have done in previous experiments on structural salience in which we used a route-continuation paradigm (Röser et al, 2012a,b).…”

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Finding the Return Path: Landmark Position Effects and the Influence of Perspective

2016

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Much research has been done on how people find their way from one place to another. Compared to that, there is less research available on how people find back from the destination to their origin. We first present theoretical approaches to perceptual and cognitive processes involved in finding a return path, including concepts, such as visibility, structural salience, and allocentric versus egocentric perspective, followed by a series of three experiments. In these experiments, we presented subjects intersections that contained landmark information on different positions. In order to investigate the processes involved, we used different measures, such as route-continuation (in learning direction and in opposite direction) and free-recall of route information. In summary, the results demonstrate the importance of landmark positions at intersections (structural salience in combination with perspective) and that finding the return path is more difficult than reproducing the same route from the learning condition. All findings will be discussed with respect to the current research literature on landmark-based wayfinding.

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“…However, there is research in the broader field of psychology which challenges the idea of visual cues to be most important in all cases. Hamburger and Röser (2014) analyze the influence of landmark modality (visual, acoustic, etc. ), familiarity and famousness of buildings on recognition time and wayfinding performance.…”

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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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The Role of Landmark Modality and Familiarity in Human Wayfinding

Cited by 45 publications

References 28 publications

Odors Can Serve as Landmarks in Human Wayfinding

Odors Can Serve as Landmarks in Human Wayfinding

Finding the Return Path: Landmark Position Effects and the Influence of Perspective

Empirically measuring salience of objects for use in pedestrian navigation

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