RESOURCES
Useful research tools
- Multivariate Testing Program (MUTEP). User name & Password: profesor. Provided by Cenek Sasinka and colleagues (Laboratory of Geoinformatics & Cartography, Masaryk University, Brno, CZ). Contact authors for use information.
- Online survey tools: Online Umfragen (in German), Qualtrics (in English).
- Online experiment builder (free): Lime Survey.
- Perspective Taking/Spatial Orientation Test by Hegarty & Waller (2004).
- Sense of Direction Tests:
Freiburg Sense of Direction Scale (FSBSOD) by Meilinger and Knauf (2004),
Santa Barbara Sense of Direction Scale (SBSOD) by Hegarty, Richardson, Montello, Lovelace, & Subbiah (2002). - Spatial cognition tests and surveys developed by researchers at the Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center (SILC).
- Tests on visuo-spatial imagery by MM Virtual Design LLC.
- SaskEXP iPad app for navigation, spatial, and object location related studies by Scott Bell and group (2012).
Useful hardware and software
- Example eye movement research lab set up (Geographic Information Visualization and Analysis Group, UZH).
- Example 3D stereo-display research lab set up (Geographic Information Visualization and Analysis Group, UZH).
- Sequence analysis software: ClustalG, eyePatterns, TraMineR.
- Usability testing software: Morae, e-Prime.
Useful tools
- Color picker for maps : ColorBrewer by Cynthia Brewer and Mark Harrower (PSU).
- Colorblindness Simulator: Color Oracle by Bernhard Jenny (Oregon State).
- EyeMMV (Eye Movements Metrics & Visualizations) by Vassilios Krassanakis (NTUA).
- Random number generator.
- Saliency toolbox by Laurent Itti (USC).
- Saliency and visual clutter toolbox by Ruth Rosenholtz (MIT).
- Text Visualization toolbox by Stacy Rebich Hespanha and João Hespanha (UCSB).
Useful books
- Fields, A. (2012). Discovering Statistics Using R. Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA.
- Fields, A. (2009). Discovering Statistics Using SPSS. Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA.
- Martin, D. (2008). Doing Psychology Experiments, Thompson, Wadsworth, Belmont, CA.
- Montello, D.R. and Sutton, P. (2013). An Introduction to Scientific Research Methods in Geography. Second Edition. Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA.
