Thirty years ago, Williamson and Barrow published an interesting piece of work: They asked participants to keep a diary of incidents of route finding errors. Contrary to common sense expectations, these errors turned out to be more frequent in familiar environments as opposed to unfamiliar environments. So a lack of attention seems to play a […]

As a scientist, I consider it important to engage in conversations with other people about my findings etc. From Sep 16th- Sep 20th, I had the pleasure of attending COSIT (Conference on Spatial Information Theory) in Quebéc City (Canada) where I presented a paper I had co-authored with Daniel R. Montello, Martin Raubal, and Ioannis […]

Data quality is important for any type of research. In case of the full-body motion capture data I have collected during my real-world study, this means checking the avatar for “weird motions”. This is a very important aspect: As the sensors are prone to electromagnetic disturbance, the body movements may no longer be accurately recorded. […]

This week, I had another great opportunity to advertise my research among students: Professor Poplin and Professor Sharma from Iowa State University visited our Research Group! They were really impressed by our mobile eye tracking devices and, of course, the full-body motion capture system. They also had a lot of questions regarding the sensor calibration […]

While a lot of things can be fixed over Zoom, in-person discussions are a very valuable part of science. It’s great that my mentor from UCSB, Daniel R. Montello, came for a 10 days research visit to our group here in Vienna! We had a large agenda to work on, touching all the parts of […]

GREAT NEWS! The full paper I have co-authored together with Daniel R. Montello, Martin Raubal, and Ioannis Giannopoulos was accepted for the 16th Conference on Spatial Information Theory! Participants of the real-world study I conducted at UCSB (i.e. during the study abroad phase of my fellowship), had to draw a map of the route they […]

I was delighted to be part of the Geo-Day hosted by the Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation at my home university, TU Wien! The Department invited several classes of pupils with their teachers to our labs. As Geoinformation group we have drawn the children’s attention by offering Virtual and Augmented Reality experiences and I had […]

Presenting one’s own research to the scientific community is a particularly important thing to do for all scientists. I am currently working on a paper which will hopefully get accepted at the 16th Conference on Spatial Information Theory to be hosted in Québec City, Quebec, Canada. Over the years this has turned out to be […]

I was expecting that my real-world study participants would find it super interesting to wear all this “fancy” equipment and walk around campus. Throughout the data collection period, however, I had a few participants who started to be concerned about their look once we had finished outfitting them. In these cases, I offered them to […]

Human participants devote their time to our research when they participate in our studies. To me, it is not only an ethical but also a moral obligation to ensure that participants can enjoy their time as much as possible. My real-world study involved palpating participants’ bodies in order to take body measures from them which […]