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Testing Landmark Identification Theories in Virtual Environments

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Spatial Cognition VII (Spatial Cognition 2010)

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Landmarks are fundamental elements for people to learn an environment. People use these landmarks to enrich their route descriptions (for example, when anchoring movements at decision points). Several automatic landmark identification and selection theories have been suggested in recent years. This paper evaluates these theories by comparing the landmarks identified by automatic landmark selection with landmark choices and behavioral characteristics of human participants moving in a virtual environment. This comparison of automatic selection and human behavior will improve our understanding of automatic landmark identification theories, and will facilitate a weighting of methods for navigation services to generate more human-like route descriptions.

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  1. SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, University of Bremen, Germany

    Denise Peters

  2. Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne, Australia

    Yunhui Wu & Stephan Winter

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  1. Center for Cognitive Science, Institute of Computer Science and Social Research, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Friedrichstraße 50, 79098, Freiburg, Germany

    Christoph Hölscher

  2. Department of Psychology, Temple University, Weiss Hall 1701 North 13th Street, 19122-6085, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Thomas F. Shipley  & Nora S. Newcombe  & 

  3. Department of Psychology, ’Sapienza’ University of Rome, Via dei Marsi 78, 00185, Rome, Italy

    Marta Olivetti Belardinelli

  4. FB 10, Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Sciences, University of Bremen, Building GW2, Bibliothekstraße 1, 28334, Bremen, Germany

    John A. Bateman

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Peters, D., Wu, Y., Winter, S. (2010). Testing Landmark Identification Theories in Virtual Environments. In: Hölscher, C., Shipley, T.F., Olivetti Belardinelli, M., Bateman, J.A., Newcombe, N.S. (eds) Spatial Cognition VII. Spatial Cognition 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6222. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14749-4_8

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