SQUARELAND: A virtual environment for investigating cognitive processes in human wayfinding
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چکیده
We introduce a new virtual environment (VE) called SQUARELAND, consisting of a 10×10 block maze, which allows for all kinds of investigations in human wayfinding. It enables researchers to quickly implement experiments on indoorand outdoor wayfinding, including variations of route length, route complexity, availability of landmarks, etc. The basic setup was programmed with the freeware GoogleSketchUp. We would like to invite the spatial cognition community to adopt this standardized and highly controllable research tool or at least parts of it, since this could improve comparability and reproducibility of different effects in wayfinding/navigation.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- PsychNology Journal
دوره 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011