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Citation

Stankiewicz BJ, Legge GE, Mansfield JS, Schlicht EJ. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 2006; 32(3): 688-704.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712-0187, USA. bstankie@mail.utexas.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/0096-1523.32.3.688

PMID

16822132

Abstract

The authors describe 3 human spatial navigation experiments that investigate how limitations of perception, memory, uncertainty, and decision strategy affect human spatial navigation performance. To better understand the effect of these variables on human navigation performance, the authors developed an ideal-navigator model for indoor navigation whose optimizing algorithm uses a partially observable Markov decision process. The model minimizes the number of actions (translations and rotations) required to move from an unknown starting state to a specific goal state in indoor environments that have perceptual ambiguity. The authors compared the model's performance with that of the human observer to measure human navigation efficiency. Experiment 1 investigated the effect of increasing the layout size on spatial way-finding efficiency and found that participants' efficiencies decreased as layout size increased. The authors investigated whether this reduction in navigation efficiency was due to visual perception (Experiment 2), memory, spatial updating strategy, or decision strategy (Experiment 3).


Language: en

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