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let you know that I recently defended my PhD </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">entitled<i> Exploring the Cognitive Processes of Map Users Employing Eye Tracking and EEG</i>. It was a joint-PhD between Ghent
University and Istanbul Technical University and an interdisciplinary research bringing experimental psychologists, HCI experts and cartographers together. For</span> those of you who might be interested, <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;">I
am sharing a short summary of my research as follows:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:12pt"><i>Understanding how our brain copes with complex visual information is a challenge for both cognitive psychology and cartography. If we, cartographers, pursue to design better and more usable cartographic products, we require building
a better knowledge on the spatial abilities and limitations of map users. This thesis aims to contribute to the understanding of the cognitive processes of expert and novice map users in learning, acquiring and remembering information presented via digital
2D static maps. To be able to gain insight into the users’ behaviors while they interact with maps (e.g. attention, cognitive load), eye tracking and electroencephalogram (EEG) are enabled as synchronized data collection methods due to them being non-invasive
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when it comes to simple spatial memory tasks using maps designed for general audience and high cognitive load is not necessarily linked with low cognitive performance. However, experts and novices develop different strategies to approach the map-learning tasks
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<div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We also published a short blog post related to my thesis on the webpage of ISPRS<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> WG IV/9 </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Geovisualization, Augmented and Virtual
Reality: <a href="https://geoviz.casa.ucl.ac.uk/2020/12/29/recent-phd-thesis-exploring-the-cognitive-processes-of-map-users-employing-eye-tracking-and-eeg/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk183369" previewremoved="true">https://geoviz.casa.ucl.ac.uk/2020/12/29/recent-phd-thesis-exploring-the-cognitive-processes-of-map-users-employing-eye-tracking-and-eeg/</a></span>
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<div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Kind regards,</div>
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