7.1 Background Cognitive mapping is defined as "a process composed of a series of psychological transformations by which an individual acquires, stores, recalls, and decodes information about the relative locations and attributes of the phenomena in his everyday spatial environment" (Downs & Stea, 1973: 7). Cognitive mapping is usually considered to be a subset of spatial cognition which can be...

7.1 Background Cognitive mapping is defined as "a process composed of a series of psychological transformations by which an individual acquires, stores, recalls, and decodes information about the relative locations and attributes of the phenomena in his everyday spatial environment" (Downs & Stea, 1973: 7). Cognitive mapping is usually considered to be a subset of spatial cognition which can be...

Much of what we know about cognitive mapping comes from observing how biological agents behave in their physical environments, and several of these ideas were implemented on robots, imitating such a process. In this paper a novel approach to cognitive mapping is presented whereby robots are treated as a species of their own and their cognitive mapping is being investigated. Such robots are refe...

In system development methodology environment there are many methodologies have been developed and adopted. In addition, many experts in system development are attempting to produce new methodologies. Moreover, every methodology has various technique and methods. However, in most information system development scenarios, information requirement definition is the most challenging and essential t...

The construction and evaluation of cognitive models can, and often do, lead to novel insights into what might constitute a valid account for an empirical phenomenon. These insights constrain the space of viable models, and could be useful also on a theoretical plane, by promoting a deeper understanding of the studied phenomenon. We propose the factorial method for deriving novel, that is, not t...

In interactive layout a drawing is repeatedly modified either by the user or by the assistance system. A usability requirement states that the assistance system should alter the layout such that the user’s mental map is preserved. This work concretises mental map preservation from a cognitive science perspective. A notion of similarity that is based on the idea of transforming spatial mental mo...