Current Approaches to Cognitive Cartography

Dr Dennis Edler is a senior lecturer (permanent staff member) at the Geography Department of the Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB). Since 2012, he has been working on research projects linking key questions of cartography with theoretical approaches of cognitive psychology and methods of experimental psychology. In 2017, he was invited guest editor of a special issue "Methods and Applications of Empirical Cartography" (Journal: Kartographische Nachrichten - Journal of Cartography and Geographic Information). Dr Frank Dickmann is Professor of Cartography and GI Science at the Geography Department of Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB). Since 2007, he has supervised many research projects on cognitive visualization topics. He and his team published many international papers in the field of cognitive cartography.

1. Current Trends in Cognitive Cartography 1.1 Symbol Design 1.2 Animation 1.3 Audio-visual Approaches 1.4 3D / Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) 1.5 Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)

2. Current and Potential Methods 2.1 Behavioral Methods 2.2 Eye-Tracking Methods 2.3 Neuroscience Methods

3. Future Challenge of Cognitive Cartography