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A cognitive model for the process of multimodal, incremental route descriptions

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Spatial Information Theory A Theoretical Basis for GIS (COSIT 1993)

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In normal life we often give route descriptions to inform someone about a specific route. They can be divided into the classes of complete and incremental route descriptions. We propose that the multimodal, incremental route description process consists of a wayfinding, a waypresentation and a control process and is based on a segmentation hierarchy. The presentation of a route description is characterized by the use of different presentation modi like speech, gesture and graphics. We propose a computational model for the multimodal, incremental route description process.

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Maaß, W. (1993). A cognitive model for the process of multimodal, incremental route descriptions. In: Frank, A.U., Campari, I. (eds) Spatial Information Theory A Theoretical Basis for GIS. COSIT 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 716. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57207-4_1

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