Effects of visual map complexity on the attentional processing of landmarks.

ABSTRACT: In the era of smartphones, route-planning and navigation is supported by freely and globally available web mapping services, such as OpenStreetMap or Google Maps. These services provide digital maps, as well as route planning functions that visually highlight the suggested route in the map. Additionally, such digital maps contain landmark pictograms, i.e. representations of salient objects in the environment. These landmark representations are, amongst other reference points, relevant for orientation, route memory, and the formation of a cognitive map of the environment. The amount of visible landmarks in maps used for navigation and route planning depends on the width of the displayed margin areas around the route. The amount of further reference points is based on the visual complexity o

SUBMITTER: Keil J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7051068 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature