ABSTRACT
The current chapter addresses issues of representation of spatial information in the context of location in and movement through space. Such movement may be direct, as when walking through a building, or this movement may be indirect, as when driving a car. This chapter integrates and elaborates on the material presented about attention in perception and visual display design in previous chapters, in order to understand the human performance challenges of integrating, understanding, navigating within, and controlling information that is fundamentally spatial, with particular Implications for the design of maps and navigation systems. The chapter presents the current state-of-the-art research regarding the tasks of navigation, spatial awareness, visualizing data and manual control, and the technology of virtual and augmented reality.
