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SPATIALCOGNITION
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Model for Context-Specific Route Directions
Wayfinding, i.e. getting from some origin to a destination, is one of the prime everyday problems humans encounter. It has received a lot of attention in research and many (commerc...
Kai-Florian Richter, Alexander Klippel
SPATIALCOGNITION
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Perceptually Induced Distortions in Cognitive Maps
Cities on a map that are directly connected by a route are judged closer than unconnected cities. This route effect has been attributed to memory distortions induced by the integra...
Alexander Klippel, Lothar Knuf, Bernhard Hommel, C...
SPATIALCOGNITION
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Branching Allen
Allen’s interval calculus is one of the most prominent formalisms in the domain of qualitative spatial and temporal reasoning. Applications of this calculus, however, are restric...
Marco Ragni, Stefan Wölfl
SPATIALCOGNITION
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Investigation of Preference Between the Least-Angle Strategy and the Initial Segment Strategy for Route Selection in Unknown Env
This paper presents results from a desktop experiment in which the participants’ route selection behavior in an unknown street network is investigated. The participants were pres...
Hartwig H. Hochmair, Victoria Karlsson
SPATIALCOGNITION
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Characterizing Diagrams Produced by Individuals and Dyads
Diagrams are an effective means of conveying concrete, abstract or symbolic information about systems. Here, individuals or pairs of participants produced assembly instructions aft...
Julie Heiser, Barbara Tversky
SPATIALCOGNITION
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Isovists as a Means to Predict Spatial Experience and Behavior
Two experiments are presented studying interrelations between spatial properties of environments and both experience and spatial behavior. In order to systematically study such int...
Jan Malte Wiener, Gerald Franz
SPATIALCOGNITION
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Treemap: An O(log n) Algorithm for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
This paper presents a very efficient SLAM algorithm that works by hierarchically dividing the map into local regions and subregions. At each level of the hierarchy each region stor...
Udo Frese
SPATIALCOGNITION
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Sketch Map Analysis Using GIS Buffer Operation
We developed a method to analyze sketch maps by GIS, and applied it to an actual case study. We found that analysis using buffer operation was more effective for sketch map analyse...
Kohei Okamoto, Kei-ichi Okunuki, Toshibumi Takai
SPATIALCOGNITION
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Exploiting Qualitative Spatial Neighborhoods in the Situation Calculus
Abstract. We present first ideas on how results about qualitative spatial reasoning can be exploited in reasoning about action and change. Current work concentrates on a line segm...
Frank Dylla, Reinhard Moratz
SPATIALCOGNITION
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
SNAPVis and SPANVis: Ontologies for Recognizing Variable Vista Spatial Environments
This paper gives the SNAP and SPAN ontologies relating to recognizing variable vista spatial environments, namely, SNAPVis and SPANVis. It proposes that recognizing spatial environ...
Tiansi Dong