Effects of Geometry, Landmarks and Orientation Strategies in the ‘Drop-Off’ Orientation Task

Peebles, David, Davies, Clare and Rodrigo, Mora (2007) Effects of Geometry, Landmarks and Orientation Strategies in the ‘Drop-Off’ Orientation Task. In: Spatial Information Theory. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4736 (4736). Springer, London, UK, pp. 390-405. ISBN 978-3-540-74786-4

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Abstract

Previous work is reviewed and an experiment described to examine the spatial and strategic cognitive factors impacting on human orientation in the ‘drop-off’ static orientation scenario, where a person is matching a scene to a map to establish directional correspondence. The relative roles of salient landmarks and scene content and geometry, including space syntax isovist measures, are explored both in terms of general effects, individual differences between participant strategies, and the apparent cognitive processes involved. In general people tend to be distracted by salient 3D landmarks even when they know these will not be detectable on the map, but benefit from a salient 2D landmark whose geometry is present in both images. However, cluster analysis demonstrated clear variations in strategy and in the relative roles of the geometry and content of the scene. Results are discussed in the context of improving future geographic information content

Item Type:	Book Chapter
Additional Information:	UoA 23 (Computer Science and Informatics)
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GA Mathematical geography. Cartography
Schools:	School of Human and Health Sciences School of Human and Health Sciences > Centre for Applied Psychological Research
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Depositing User:	Sara Taylor
Date Deposited:	31 Jul 2008 10:39
Last Modified:	22 Dec 2010 13:13
URI:	http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/1303

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