One application for spatial cognitive models is navigation. Spatial navigation models can be classified in two classes which are low-level biologically inspired models by neural machinery and high-level descriptive models based on egocentric and allocentric spatial encoding strategies (Manning et.al, 2014). However, these models all lost the prediction and explanation about the users’ navigation behavior. In 2014, Manning provided a cognitive map-based model of human wayfinding named MAGELLAN, tried to fill the blank of the research on cognitive map modeling.
The experiment of Manning and his colleagues study based on a hypothesis that “human navigation and rodent navigation may rely on similar allocentric representations of navigated environments” …show more content…
Of course, wayfinding and navigation are not the special skill of human being. In the nature, the well-know navigators like pigeons, dogs, eels can be navigated by magnetic field, smell, river flows, positions of stars. Ocean current and vision are the effect factors of animal wayfinding behaviors as well. Nature is so sophisticated and mysterious that never simplify the research of biologists. Therefore, biologists have made huge efforts to understand the spatial cognitive of animal by using cognitive map …show more content…
As same as the common sense that landmarks are keys for wayfinding in large scale, Li suggests that chapter and section titles are widely regarded as contextual cues for finding a target when reading an e-book. Hence, the new e-book reading system in Li’s experiment concludes three modules which are (1) annotation module: including some basic annotation function like underline, comment, bookmark; (2) visual cue map: showing page numbers as buttons with relatively contextual cues; (3) reading guidance module: directing two reading strategies before reading which are pre-reading strategy with page number buttons and titles to underline and remember for users who never read the book before, and reading mode with question notes for helping users to remember the content they have
The experiment of Manning and his colleagues study based on a hypothesis that “human navigation and rodent navigation may rely on similar allocentric representations of navigated environments” …show more content…
Of course, wayfinding and navigation are not the special skill of human being. In the nature, the well-know navigators like pigeons, dogs, eels can be navigated by magnetic field, smell, river flows, positions of stars. Ocean current and vision are the effect factors of animal wayfinding behaviors as well. Nature is so sophisticated and mysterious that never simplify the research of biologists. Therefore, biologists have made huge efforts to understand the spatial cognitive of animal by using cognitive map …show more content…
As same as the common sense that landmarks are keys for wayfinding in large scale, Li suggests that chapter and section titles are widely regarded as contextual cues for finding a target when reading an e-book. Hence, the new e-book reading system in Li’s experiment concludes three modules which are (1) annotation module: including some basic annotation function like underline, comment, bookmark; (2) visual cue map: showing page numbers as buttons with relatively contextual cues; (3) reading guidance module: directing two reading strategies before reading which are pre-reading strategy with page number buttons and titles to underline and remember for users who never read the book before, and reading mode with question notes for helping users to remember the content they have