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COSIT
1999
Springer
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Pictorial and Verbal Tools for Conveying Routes
Traditionally, depictions and descriptions have been seen as complementary; depictions have been preferred to convey iconic or metaphorically iconic information whereas description...
Barbara Tversky, Paul U. Lee
COSIT
1997
Springer
80views GIS» more  COSIT 1997»
15 years 1 months ago
Spatial Representation for Pragmatic Navigation
As described here, pragmatic navigation attempts to harness simple facts about a two-dimensional environment to facilitate travel through it without an explicit map. It relies upo...
Susan L. Epstein
COSIT
1993
Springer
102views GIS» more  COSIT 1993»
15 years 1 months ago
Scale and Multiple Psychologies of Space
The importance of scale to the psychology of space (perception, thinking, memory, behavior) is discussed. It is maintained that scale has an important influence on how humans treat...
Daniel R. Montello
COSIT
1993
Springer
206views GIS» more  COSIT 1993»
15 years 1 months ago
Cognitive Maps, Cognitive Collages, and Spatial Mental Models
Although cognitive map is a popular metaphor for people's mental representations of environments, as it is typically conceived, it is often too restrictive. Two other metaphor...
Barbara Tversky
VLDB
1994
ACM
110views Database» more  VLDB 1994»
15 years 1 months ago
Client-Server Paradise
This paper describes the design and implementation of Paradise, a database system designed for handling GIS type of applications. The current version of Paradise, uses a client{se...
David J. DeWitt, Navin Kabra, Jun Luo, Jignesh M. ...