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Directed Research Project Details

Cognitive Mapping: A Comparison Between Virtual Environment Navigation and Physical Navigation

Abstract

Cognitive mapping, human beings' spatial knowledge, is of great importance to pedestrian navigation. With development of virtual reality technology, virtual environments have become an alternative to traditional media for human cognitive mapping. However, we still lack solid understandings of how human beings develop cognitive mapping in an environment simulated in virtual reality. In this pilot study, we apply the theory of cognitive mapping, Landmark-Route-Survey model more specifically, and compare cognitive mapping of physical navigation and virtual navigation, by examing the performance differences of spatial knowledge tests between navigations in physical navigation in a library and virtual navigation in the simulated version of the library using a slide-show style virtual reality system.