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Long-Term Landmark and Route Memory Retention Acquired in a Real-World Map-Aided Navigation Task (Short Paper) Kapaj, Armand Hilton, Christopher Fabrikant, Sara I. Long-term spatial memory retention map-aided real-world navigation The visualization of landmarks in mobile maps has become a popular countermeasure to the negative effect navigation aids have on spatial learning. Landmarks are salient environmental cues that serve as cognitive anchors during navigation, facilitating spatial memory formation and long-term retention. However, longitudinal studies assessing long-term spatial memory retention acquired during mobile map-assisted navigation in the real world and what role visualized landmarks play in this context are still scarce. We report on a longitudinal study to assess long-term spatial memory retention of wayfinders who, two years prior, navigated only once a real-world route prescribed with a mobile map aid enriched with visually salient task-relevant landmarks. We report preliminary results on their long-term memory retention of acquired landmark and route knowledge. We found that participants retained meaningful long-term landmark and route knowledge over the two-year study period. While landmark knowledge decreased over the test-retest sessions, gained route knowledge was unaffected. These ecologically valid results contribute to a better understanding of spatial memory formation and long-term retention after one route exposure through a real-world environment, aided by a mobile map enriched with salient landmarks. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Armand Kapaj and Christopher Hilton and Sara I. Fabrikant 2024 Is Part Of LIPIcs, Volume 315, 16th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2024) InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.13 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-208281 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.13 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode