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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.13

Long-Term Landmark and Route Memory Retention Acquired in a Real-World Map-Aided Navigation Task (Short Paper)

Authors: Armand Kapaj, Christopher Hilton, and Sara I. Fabrikant

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 315, 16th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2024)

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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.

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Armand Kapaj, Christopher Hilton, and Sara I. Fabrikant. Long-Term Landmark and Route Memory Retention Acquired in a Real-World Map-Aided Navigation Task (Short Paper). In 16th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 315, pp. 13:1-13:9, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{kapaj_et_al:LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.13,
  author =	{Kapaj, Armand and Hilton, Christopher and Fabrikant, Sara I.},
  title =	{{Long-Term Landmark and Route Memory Retention Acquired in a Real-World Map-Aided Navigation Task}},
  booktitle =	{16th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2024)},
  pages =	{13:1--13:9},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-330-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{315},
  editor =	{Adams, Benjamin and Griffin, Amy L. and Scheider, Simon and McKenzie, Grant},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.13},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-208281},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.13},
  annote =	{Keywords: Long-term, spatial memory, retention, map-aided, real-world navigation}
}

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