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From Resource-Adaptive Navigation Assistance to Augmented Cognition

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In an assistance scenario, a computer provides purposive information supporting a human user in an everyday situation. Wayfinding with navigation assistance is a prototypical assistance scenario. The present chapter analyzes the interplay of the resources of the assistance system and the resources of the user. The navigation assistance system provides geographic knowledge, positioning information, route planning, spatial overview information, and route commands at decision points. The user’s resources encompass spatial knowledge, spatial abilities and visuo-spatial working memory, orientation strategies, and cultural habit. Flexible adaptations of the assistance system to available resources of the user are described, taking different wayfinding goals, situational constraints, and individual differences into account. Throughout the chapter, the idea is pursued that the available resources of the user should be kept active.

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Zimmer, H.D., Münzer, S., Baus, J. (2010). From Resource-Adaptive Navigation Assistance to Augmented Cognition. In: Crocker, M., Siekmann, J. (eds) Resource-Adaptive Cognitive Processes. Cognitive Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89408-7_3

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