Sketch Map Analyser
About
Researchers have long sought to systematically study how people perceive and understand space. Sketch maps can be considered as externalization of cognitive mental maps. However, the analysis of sketch maps is still a complicated, manual process. SketchMapia is a comprehensive method to analyse sketch maps. The analysis of sketch maps is utterly complex. SketchMapia assists people to systematically analyse sketch maps in social and natural sciences.
The software helps an experimenter to analyse:
- which features the participant remember,
- at which level of generalisation (abstraction) did the participant recall objects, and
- was the participant able to recall them in the correct spatial configuration.
Tutorials
This video gives a short overview of SketchMapia and how to use it.
The step-by-step instruction of how to use the software can be found at the associated github repository: SketchMapia .
References
Manivannan C.; Krukar J.; Schwering A.
Public Library of Science
PloS one
2024
Manivannan C.; Krukar J.; Schwering A.
Academic Press
Journal of Environmental Psychology
2022
Krukar J, Münzer S, Lörch L, Anacta VJ, Fuest S, Schwering A
Springer International Publishing
2018
Schwering, Angela; Wang, Jia; Chipofya, Malumbo; Jan, Sahib; Li, Rui; Broelemann, Klaus
Spatial Cognition and Computation
2014