Time

    June 8-9, 12-5 p.m.

    Place

    Metcalf 225

    Purpose

    The bootcamp is to brainstorm ideas for actual experiments. A lot of ideas are in the proposal itself, but we need to get those hammered down. Also, we have to make sure they, or something like them, hasn't been done already. What are the gaps? We'll be getting a unique system, technologicaly speaking, so what should we do with it?

    Readings

    You can start by reading all the ones from the spring meetings which should still be in the box on top of the cabinet in rm 225. The proposal is also available on the home page (back).

    • Classic Theories

      • Downs, R M and Stea, D (1973) Cognitive maps and spatial behavior: Process and Products. IN: R M Downs and D Stead (eds.) Image and Environment. Chicago: Aldine Publishing, 8-26.
      • Hart, R A and Moore, G T (1973) The development of spatial cognition: A review. IN: R M Downs and D Stead (eds.) Image and Environment. Chicago: Aldine Publishing, 246-288.
      • Siegel, A W and White, S H (1975) The development of spatial representation of large-scale environments. IN: H W Reese (ed.) Advances in Child Development, vol. 10. New York: Academic Press, 9-55.
      • Down, R M (1981) Maps and mappings as metaphors for spatial representation. IN: L S Liben, A H Patterson, N Newcombe (eds.) Spatial representation and behavior across the life span. New York: Academic Press, 143-166.

    • Recent Theories

      • Freundschuh, S M (1991) The effect of the pattern of the environment on spatial knowledge acquisition. IN: D M Mark and A U Frank (eds.) Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space. Netherlands: Kluwer Academic. 167-183.
      • Heft, H (1996) The ecological approach to navigation: A Gibsonian perspective. IN J Portugali (ed.) The Construction of Cognitive Maps. Netherlands: Kluwer Academic, 105-132.

    • Non-VR Experiments

      • Brown, W (1932) 1) Auditory and visual cues in maze learning; 2) Spatial integrations in a human maze; 3) Reorientation in a multiple-path maze. University of California Publications in Psychology, 5 (5), 115-160.
      • Byrne, R W (1979) Memory for urban geography. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 31, 147-154.
      • Sadalla, E K, Burroughs, W J, and Staplin, L J (1980) Reference points in spatial cognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 6(5), 516-528.
      • Evans, G W, Marrero, D G, and Bulter, P A (1981) Environmental learning and cognitive mapping. Environment and Behavior, 13(1), 83-104.
      • Moar, I and Carleton, L R (1982) Memory for routes. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 34A, 381-394.
      • McNamara, T P (1986) Mental represenations of spatial relations. Cogntive Psychology, 18, 87-121.
      • Moeser, S D (1988) Cognitive mapping in a complex building. Environment and Behavior, 20(1), 21-49.
      • Rovine, M J and Weisman, G D (1989) Sketch-map variables as predictors of way-finding performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 9, 217-232.
      • Peponis, J, Zimring, C and Choi, Y K (1990) Finding the building in wayfinding. Environment and Behavior, 22(5), 555-590.
      • Sherman, R C and Lim, K M (1991) Determinants of spatial priming in environmental learning. Memory and Cognition, 19(3), 283-292.
      • Anooshian, L J (1996) Diversity within spatial cognition. Environment and Behavior, 28(4), 471-493.

    • VR Experiments

      • O'Neill, M J (1992) Effects of familiarity and plan complexity on wayfinding in simulated buildings. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 12, 319-327.
      • Tlauka, M and Wilson, P N (1994) The effect of landmarks on route-learning in a computer-simulated environment. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 14, 305-313.
      • Aginsky, V, Harris, C, Rensink, R and Beusmans, J (1996) Two strategies for learning a route in a driving simulator. Journal of Experimental Psychology (in press).
      • Darken, R P and Sibert, J L (1996). Wayfinding strategies and behaviors in large virtual worlds. ACM SIGCHI. (html here )
      • Bliss, J P, Tidwell, P D and Guest, M A (1997) The effectiveness of virtual reality for administering spatial navigation training to firefighters. Presence, 6(1), 73-86.
      • Gillner, S and Mallot, H A (1997) Navigation and acquisition of spatial knowledge in a virtual maze. Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tubingen, Tech Report No. 45.
      • Peterson, B (1998) The influence of whole-body interaction on wayfinding in virtual reality. Master's Thesis, University of Washington. (html here)
      • articles from Presence, vol. 7, num. 2--special issue on spatial orientation and wayfinding in large-scale virtual spaces.

    • Methodology

      • Gentry, T A and Wakefield Jr., J A (1991) Methods for measuring spatial cognition. IN: D M Mark and A U Frank (eds.) Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space. Netherlands: Kluwer Academic. 185-217.
      • Montello, D R (1991) The measuremnt of cognitive distance: methods and construct validity. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 11, 101-122.

    • Of Mathematical Interest

      • Benedikt, M L (1979) To take hold of space: Isovists and isovist fields. Environment and Planning B, 6, 47-65.
      • Golledge, R G and Hubert, L J (1982) Some comments on non-Euclidian mental maps. Environment and Planning A, 14, 107-118.
      • Baird, J C, Wagner, M and Noma, E (1982) Impossible cognitive spaces. Geographical Analysis, 14(3), 204-216.