Activity Effects on Path Integration Tasks for Children in Different Environments

• Published in: Spatial Cognition VIII Vol. 7463; pp. 210 - 219
• Main Authors: Neidhardt, Eva, Popp, Michael
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Germany Springer Berlin / Heidelberg 2012; Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: children; path integration; pointing; Spatial activity; virtual reality

In each of the three presented studies kindergarten children and school children walked a path of about one kilometer in a macro environment At up to six locations subjects stopped and were asked to point into the direction of the path origin with their outstretched arm and finger and later with a m...