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Perspectives in externalizations of mental spatial representations

Löwen Heinrich, Schwering Angela, Krukar Jakub, Winter Stephan

Research article in edited proceedings (conference) | Peer reviewed

Abstract

Place is a core component of human spatial knowledge and therefore a central topic in GI Science. People use externalizations of mental spatial representations to communicate about space. Textual descriptions and graphical descriptions are the two main modes of communication. In this paper a distinction of three scales of spatial descriptions is assumed and textual and graphical descriptions are collected and analyzed in order to investigate the differences between the spatial descriptions.Thereby the focus lies on the properties and perspectives of the descriptions.It is found that within the textual descriptions people tend to not consistently use one perspective, but switch perspectives and predominantly apply the route perspective.For the graphical descriptions there has been no clear categorization of description perspectives. However, there are differences in the properties of these descriptions that indicate different perspectives.

Details about the publication

Editors: Bregt Arnold, Sarjakoski Tapani, van Lammeren Ron, Rip Frans
Book title: Societal Geo-innovation: Selected papers of the 20th AGILE conference on Geographic Information Science
Page range: 111-127
Publisher: Springer
Place of publication: Cham
Title of series: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
Status: Published
Release year: 2017
Language in which the publication is written: English
Conference: 20th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Wageningen, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
ISBN: 978-3-319-56759-4
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-56759-4_7
Link to the full text: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315857668_Perspectives_in_Externalizations_of_Mental_Spatial_Representations
Keywords: Spatial information extraction; Communication modes; Spatial description perspectives

Authors from the University of Münster

Krukar, Jakub
Professur für Geoinformatik (Prof. Schwering) (SIL)
Löwen, Heinrich
Professur für Geoinformatik (Prof. Schwering) (SIL)
Schwering, Angela
Professur für Geoinformatik (Prof. Schwering) (SIL)

Projects the publication originates from

Wayfinding through Orientation (WayTo)
Duration: 01/09/2015 - 31/03/2021
Funded by: EC FP 7 - ERC Starting Grant
Type of project: EU-project hosted at University of Münster
Wayfinding Through Orientation (WayTO): Support for Spatial Orientation and Wayfinding in Real Environments Through Cognitively Appropriate Spatial Information… (WayTO)
Duration: 01/07/2014 - 30/06/2017
Funded by: DFG - Individual Grants Programme
Type of project: Individual project