MENTAL IMAGE TRANSFORMATIONS IN TERRAIN MAP COMPARISON

摘要: The increasing use of the three-dimensional terrain maps in both military and civilian systems raises a number questions about typical user's capabilities for encoding comparing surfaces. Comparison between these surfaces requires significant mental rotation azimuth elevation axes. To determine whether: (1) this can be quickly performed with high accuracy, (2) analog transformational or other strategies are used, (3) rotational process is similar axes, 21 male geography students viewed computergenerated map an experiment. A standard 3d surface was initially presented, followed by comparison which either same map, though rotated and/or mirror-image map. Each generated using layered isolines to represent three peaks. Reaction times (RTs) were measured as subjects entered 'same' 'different' response. Implications for...