This chapter emerges from a deeply felt conviction that urban design should exist as an
independent fi eld within society and as an extended educational program within …

Virtual reality (VR) or virtual environment (VE) computing has as its hub the simulation by
computer of a three-dimensional visual environment that can be explored in real time …

This book has been generated by the EC-funded Dedicated Road Infrastructure for Vehicle
Safety in Europe DRIVE collaborative research programme. it brings together work on driver …

In this paper, we sketch out a computational theory of spatial cognition motivated by
navigational behaviours, ecological requirements, and neural mechanisms as identified in …

Despite that fact that landmarks play a prominent role in human navigation, experimental
evidence on how landmarks are selected and defined by human navigators remains elusive …

Research on the development of spatial cognition has expanded our knowledge of cognitive
development by investigating changes in cognitive structures and processes within a new …

Une approche pluridisciplinaire des représentations de l'espace. Tout être vivant inscrit son
activité dans l'espace. Environnements proches accessibles à notre vue, environnements …

Psychology has been late in giving full recognition to the importance of the sociophysical
environment as an influence upon individual behaviour, and to devoting some of its …

A major objective in the marketing tourism services is to increase the activities and
commerce of tourists within an area or location. The extent of environmental learning and …

This article explores the possibility that way-finding involves the perception of environmental
information over time. Drawing on the work of JJ Gibson, it is hypothesized that the …