Gardony Map Drawing Analyzer: Software for quantitative analysis of sketch maps

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 151-177

  Gardony, Aaron L ^a,b   Taylor, Holly A ^b   Brunyé, Tad T ^a,b  

^a DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive mapping; Mental models; Sketch maps; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL MEMORY;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84922698025     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-014-0556-x     Document Type: Article

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