TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints1509
UR  - http://cogprints.org/1509/
A1  - Espinosa, Maria Angeles
A1  - Ungar, Simon
A1  - Ochaita, Esperanza
A1  - Blades, Mark
A1  - Spencer, Christopher
Y1  - 1998///
N2  - This paper reports two experiments which compared the effectiveness of different methods for introducing blind and visually impaired people to the spatial layout of urban environments. In Experiment 1, 30 blind and visually impaired adults learned a long and complex route through an area of central Madrid (Spain) either by direct experience or by a combination of direct experience and a tactile map or a combination of direct experience and a verbal description of the area. Performance on measures of practical spatial knowledge and of representational spatial knowledge was significantly better in participants in the tactile map condition. In Experiment 2, participants learned a similar route in an area of Sheffield (Britain) using either just a tactile map of by direct experience. No significant difference was found between the two conditions using the same measures as in Experiment 1.
PB  - Academic Press
KW  - environmetal cognition
KW  -  blind
KW  -  blindness
KW  -  visual impairment
KW  -  tactile map
KW  -  spatial cognition
KW  -  wayfinding
TI  - Comparing methods for introducing blind and visually impaired people to unfamiliar urban environments
SP  - 277
AV  - public
EP  - 287
ER  -

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