True-3D accentuating of grids and streets in urban topographic maps enhances human object location memory.

ABSTRACT: Cognitive representations of learned map information are subject to systematic distortion errors. Map elements that divide a map surface into regions, such as content-related linear symbols (e.g. streets, rivers, railway systems) or additional artificial layers (coordinate grids), provide an orientation pattern that can help users to reduce distortions in their mental representations. In recent years, the television industry has started to establish True-3D (autostereoscopic) displays as mass media. These modern displays make it possible to watch dynamic and static images including depth illusions without additional devices, such as 3D glasses. In these images, visual details can be distributed over different positions along the depth axis. Some empirical studies of vision research provide

SUBMITTER: Edler D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4334546 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature