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Auflistung nach Schlagwort "Landmarks"

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  • Zeitschriftenartikel
    Analyzing the Effects of VGI-based Landmarks on Spatial Memory and Navigation Performance
    (KI - Künstliche Intelligenz: Vol. 31, No. 2, 2017) Bestgen, Anne-Kathrin; Edler, Dennis; Kuchinke, Lars; Dickmann, Frank
    The construction and modulation of cognitive maps relies on spatial information. Their analysis is essential to understand the orientation and navigation behavior in humans. Empirical studies within the interdisciplinary cooperation of Professor Dickmann at Ruhr-University Bochum and Professor Kuchinke at the International Psychoanalytical University Berlin focus on the investigation of spatial memory and navigation performance, from a cognitive and a geographic perspective. Several studies found out that the design of topographic maps has a systematical influence on spatial memory performance. Within the frame of the Priority Programme SSP 1894 “Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI): Interpretation, Visualisation and Social Computing”, which is funded by the German Research Foundation with a term of 3 years, similar effects of landmarks and landmarks configurations will be investigated. Selected landmarks and, in particular, patterns of landmarks building geometric shapes are expected to guide spatial attention and support individual wayfinding strategies. Identifying landmark patterns will lay the foundations for automatic extraction processes and mobile map design.
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    Dissertation Abstract: Empirically Measuring Salience of Objects for Use in Pedestrian Navigation
    (KI - Künstliche Intelligenz: Vol. 31, No. 2, 2017) Kattenbeck, Markus
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    Landmarks are Exaggerated
    (KI - Künstliche Intelligenz: Vol. 31, No. 2, 2017) Montello, Daniel R.
    In this discussion essay, I contend that the role of landmarks is exaggerated in basic and applied spatial cognition research. Specifically, I discuss empirical and theoretical arguments consistent with two claims. First, the word landmark is a label for several different concepts, although its precise reference in a particular context is rarely specified carefully. Further, whether specified or not, researchers never use the term landmark to mean everything that the concept can legitimately mean. Thus, when researchers assert something about the role of landmarks in spatial cognitive activities, they exaggerate their particular meaning at the expense of a broader ontology. Second, I claim that even when landmarks are clearly and precisely defined, their role in specifying location is misunderstood and less fundamental than proposed. In exaggerating landmarks, other important components of spatial knowledge, memory, and reasoning are undervalued. Taken together, these two claims support my contention that landmarks are exaggerated in spatial cognition.
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    Visual Landmarks are Exaggerated: A Theoretical and Empirical View on the Meaning of Landmarks in Human Wayfinding
    (KI - Künstliche Intelligenz: Vol. 34, No. 4, 2020) Hamburger, Kai
    Are landmarks exaggerated in human wayfinding? Daniel R. Montello says yes, and I basically agree with his opinion. However, I do agree on a different level. My aim for this discussion article is to point out why landmarks are indeed exaggerated in this research context and I will try to approach this claim from several perspectives. First, the research focus in this field is, unfortunately, mainly on visual landmarks. Second, other modalities than vision—e.g., auditory and/or olfactory senses—can be used for landmark-based wayfinding. Third, we need to clearly differentiate between conscious/effortful and unconscious/automatic processing of spatial information in the context of landmark-based wayfinding. Finally, I will suggest that landmarks, even if exaggerated in the visual domain, are (still) of significant importance in human wayfinding and spatial cognition.