The WALKABOUT: Using virtual environments to assess large-scale spatial abilities |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China;2. Department of Computer Science and Technology, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China;3. Department of Computer Science, Pace University, New York City, NY 10038, USA;4. Department of Information Systems, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. Box 51178, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia |
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Abstract: | Computer-simulated virtual environments (VEs) offer promise for assessing people's spatial abilities in large real-world environments. This paper introduces the WALKABOUT, a VE-based test that simulates navigation through large spaces. Participants' ability to form an accurate mental representation of a familiar large-scale environment correlated nearly as highly with their performance on the WALKABOUT as it did with their self-reported sense of direction. Performance on two subscales of the test further indicated that the ability to account for changing egocentric relationships as a result of self-movement and the ability to recognize a novel perspective on an environment are both significantly related to spatial ability at the environmental scale. |
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