A Study of Cognitive Maps on Human Sense of Direction
Akira NOMURA, Hiroaki SUZUKI, Tadashi WATANABE
For the pupose of designing effective guide notices based on the human cognitive mechanism we
made two experiments on cognitive maps which one imagines in one's head when one moves. Results
show that (1) useful evaluation items for cognitive maps can be landmarks provided at nodes,
numbers of nodes or paths, configurations of paths and nodes, and scale informations on distance
and the like ; (2) cognitive maps come in three types i.e., 'Type of information fully used ',
'Type of infromation partially used ', 'Type of information poorly used '; and (3) for people
with poor sense of direction, landmarks information would be more useful.