| Publication type: |
Article in Collection |
| Author: |
Alexander Klippel, Kai-Florian Richter, Thomas Barkowsky, Christian Freksa |
| Editor: |
Liqiu Meng, Alexander Zipf, Tumasch Reichenbacher |
| Title: |
The Cognitive Reality of Schematic Maps |
| Book / Collection title: |
Map-based Mobile Services - Theories, Methods and Implementations |
| Page(s): |
57 – 74 |
| Year published: |
2005 |
| Publisher: |
Springer, Berlin |
| Abstract: |
In graphics and language, schematization is an important method to emphasize certain aspects and to deemphasize others. Different disciplines use schematization for different reasons. In cartography, graphic schematization is an aspect of map generalization; here, the origins of schematization are of technical nature and schematization has not been picked out as a specific topic of concern. In cognitive science, schematization is addressed as a method to intentionally emphasize certain aspects of knowledge beyond technical necessity; the notion of schematic map is proposed to denote maps that employ schematization for cognitive representational reasons. This article discusses different views of schematization from cartography, linguistics, and artificial intelligence. Connections to qualitative reasoning in artificial intelligence are drawn. We address human spatial cognition and present examples of taskoriented representations. Finally, multimodality for conveying spatial knowledge and its application in schematic maps are discussed. |
| Internet: |
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,1-40109-22-34561878-0,00.html |
| PDF Version: |
http://www.cosy.informatik.uni-bremen.de/staff/richter/pubs/klippel2005cognitive.pdf |
| Status: |
Other |
| Last updated: |
13. 12. 2004 |
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