Title: Abstracts and authors of the 8th International Conference on Spatial Cognition: Cognition and Action in a Plurality of Spaces (ICSC 2021)
Abstract: Background: In addition to numerous navigation applications in urban environments, more specialized applications now allow to interact collectively in a playful or functional perspective.The means of evaluating these behaviors and the collective representations involved are now a major issue and challenge.Aims: The aim of this research is to digitise and analyse the location information represented on mental maps by subjects of an experiment made in the ANR CORES.Methods: The construction of the location information database is based on the manual identification of landmarks on mental maps, and then relating them to the objects in OpenStreetMap.This database allows us to analyse the types of objects used by the subjects in their Cognitive Processing ( 2021) 22 (Suppl 1):S3-S67 S5123 mental map, and the differences between the Euclidean space and the subject's mental space representation.Results: The first results are a database built from the mental maps drawn by 120 subjects and a static analysis of the types of objects represented.This analysis makes it possible to highlight the most frequently used types and instances of objects, and the differences between the different groups of subjects.Conclusion: This initial analysis makes it possible to highlight the differences in representations that may exist between the different mental maps used by the subjects to represent the space they have visited.Our short-term objective is to compare these results with the GPS traces of the subjects during their journey, to see whether there is a link between the journey and its representation.