Self-Localization on Plan and Oblique Maps

Subjects viewed projected slides of a downtown city area and attempted to find on a map the location at which they would be standing to see each view. Plan and oblique maps were used. As expected, performance using the plan map was significantly better when the map was used in alignment with the vie...

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Published inEnvironment and behavior Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 71 - 98
Main Author Warren, David H.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Thousand Oaks, CA Sage Publications 01.01.1994
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Alignment
Behavior
Cognition & reasoning
Navigation
Orientation
Physical environment
Position (location)
Social research
Urban areas
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Summary:Subjects viewed projected slides of a downtown city area and attempted to find on a map the location at which they would be standing to see each view. Plan and oblique maps were used. As expected, performance using the plan map was significantly better when the map was used in alignment with the view than when it was misaligned. This issue is more complex with the oblique map, because S often has to choose between using the map in alignment with the view and using the map in its upright orientation. Performance was significantly better when the map was used in map-view alignment. However, Ss preferred to use the map in an upright-but-misaligned orientation rather than a non-upright-but-aligned orientation, despite the fact that their performance was much worse in the former case.
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ISSN:0013-9165
1552-390X
DOI:10.1177/0013916594261005