TY - GEN
T1 - More than a list
T2 - 12th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2015
AU - Wartmann, Flurina M.
AU - Egorova, Ekaterina
AU - Derungs, Curdin
AU - Mark, David M.
AU - Purves, Ross S.
N1 - Acknowledgements
The research in this study was funded by the ‘Forschungskredit’ of the University of Zurich, grant no. FK-13-104 and the University Research Priority Program Language and Space (URPP SpuR) of the University of Zurich. We thank all participants in Val Müstair, Flims and Irchel Park who took part in this study.
PY - 2015/12/15
Y1 - 2015/12/15
N2 - Categorization is central to abstraction from real world geographic phenomena to computational representations, and as such has been the subject of considerable research. We report on one common approach, free listing, in an outdoor setting and explore terms elicited in response to the question ‘What is there for you in a landscape?’. We collected term lists, and explanations for the strategies used from 89 participants in two mountain and one parkland setting. We analyzed results not only using term frequency, but also by cognitive saliency, exploring list structures, and building aggregated networks visualizing links between terms. We observed memory search strategies, such as exploiting and switching semantic clusters in our data, with participants using for example not only the local setting to start clusters, but also memories of familiar landscapes to switch between clusters. Our results reveal that simple free listing experiments can help us understand how categories are linked, and also highlight ways in which landscapes are conceptualized.
AB - Categorization is central to abstraction from real world geographic phenomena to computational representations, and as such has been the subject of considerable research. We report on one common approach, free listing, in an outdoor setting and explore terms elicited in response to the question ‘What is there for you in a landscape?’. We collected term lists, and explanations for the strategies used from 89 participants in two mountain and one parkland setting. We analyzed results not only using term frequency, but also by cognitive saliency, exploring list structures, and building aggregated networks visualizing links between terms. We observed memory search strategies, such as exploiting and switching semantic clusters in our data, with participants using for example not only the local setting to start clusters, but also memories of familiar landscapes to switch between clusters. Our results reveal that simple free listing experiments can help us understand how categories are linked, and also highlight ways in which landscapes are conceptualized.
KW - Commonsense geography
KW - Free lists
KW - Geographic categories
KW - GIS
KW - Landscape categorizations
KW - Memory search
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84951263112&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-23374-1_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-23374-1_11
M3 - Published conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84951263112
SN - 9783319233734
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 224
EP - 243
BT - Spatial Information Theory - 12th International Conference, COSIT 2015, Proceedings
A2 - Freundshuh, Scott
A2 - Fabrikant, Sara Irina
A2 - Davies, Clare
A2 - Bell, Scott
A2 - Bertolotto, Michela
A2 - Raubal, Martin
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 12 October 2015 through 16 October 2015
ER -