A Study on Visual and Structural Characteristics of Landmarks and Experts’ and Non-experts’ Evaluations

Demet Yesiltepe; Ruth Conroy Dalton; Ayse Ozbil Torun; Antoine Coutrot; Michael Hornberger; Hugo Spiers

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-57983-8_8

A Study on Visual and Structural Characteristics of Landmarks and Experts’ and Non-experts’ Evaluations

Demet Yesiltepe, Ruth Conroy Dalton, Ayse Ozbil Torun, Antoine Coutrot, Michael Hornberger, Hugo Spiers

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Abstract

The aim of this study is to understand what makes a landmark more salient and to explore whether assessments of saliency vary between experts and non-experts. We hypothesize that non-experts’ saliency judgments will agree with those of the experts. Secondly, we hypothesize that not only visual characteristics but also structural characteristics make landmarks salient and that the size and visibility of objects are important for them to be considered as salient. To test our hypotheses, an online navigation game, Sea Hero Quest (SHQ), was used and two levels of the game were selected as the case study. The characteristics of these levels were evaluated by non-experts and experts in the field. Our results suggest that both visual and structural characteristics of landmarks make them more salient. We also discovered that experts’ saliency evaluations are mostly consistent with non-experts’.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Spatial Cognition - 12th International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2020, Proceedings
Editors	Jurǵis Šķilters, Nora S. Newcombe, David Uttal
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	8
Pages	95-107
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-57983-8
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-57982-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57983-8_8
Publication status	Published - 25 Aug 2020

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	12162 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Keywords

Landmarks
Navigation
Saliency
Wayfinding

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Yesiltepe, D., Dalton, R. C., Ozbil Torun, A., Coutrot, A., Hornberger, M., & Spiers, H. (2020). A Study on Visual and Structural Characteristics of Landmarks and Experts’ and Non-experts’ Evaluations. In J. Šķilters, N. S. Newcombe, & D. Uttal (Eds.), Spatial Cognition - 12th International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2020, Proceedings (pp. 95-107). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 12162 LNAI). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57983-8_8

Yesiltepe, Demet ; Dalton, Ruth Conroy ; Ozbil Torun, Ayse ; Coutrot, Antoine ; Hornberger, Michael ; Spiers, Hugo. / A Study on Visual and Structural Characteristics of Landmarks and Experts’ and Non-experts’ Evaluations. Spatial Cognition - 12th International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2020, Proceedings. editor / Jurǵis Šķilters ; Nora S. Newcombe ; David Uttal. Springer, 2020. pp. 95-107 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Yesiltepe, D, Dalton, RC, Ozbil Torun, A, Coutrot, A, Hornberger, M & Spiers, H 2020, A Study on Visual and Structural Characteristics of Landmarks and Experts’ and Non-experts’ Evaluations. in J Šķilters, NS Newcombe & D Uttal (eds), Spatial Cognition - 12th International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2020, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 12162 LNAI, Springer, pp. 95-107. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57983-8_8

A Study on Visual and Structural Characteristics of Landmarks and Experts’ and Non-experts’ Evaluations. / Yesiltepe, Demet; Dalton, Ruth Conroy; Ozbil Torun, Ayse; Coutrot, Antoine; Hornberger, Michael; Spiers, Hugo.

Spatial Cognition - 12th International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2020, Proceedings. ed. / Jurǵis Šķilters; Nora S. Newcombe; David Uttal. Springer, 2020. p. 95-107 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 12162 LNAI).

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Yesiltepe D, Dalton RC, Ozbil Torun A, Coutrot A, Hornberger M, Spiers H. A Study on Visual and Structural Characteristics of Landmarks and Experts’ and Non-experts’ Evaluations. In Šķilters J, Newcombe NS, Uttal D, editors, Spatial Cognition - 12th International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2020, Proceedings. Springer. 2020. p. 95-107. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57983-8_8

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