Anna WunderlichTechnische Universität Berlin | TUB · Department of Psychology and Ergonomics
Anna Wunderlich
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Introduction
Education
October 2013 - December 2016
October 2010 - September 2013
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Publications (26)
The continuous assessment of pedestrians’ cognitive load during a naturalistic mobile map-assisted navigation task is challenging because of limited experimental control over stimulus presentation, human-map-interactions, and other participant responses. To overcome this challenge, the present study takes advantage of navigators’ spontaneous eye bl...
The frequent use of GPS-based navigation assistance is found to negatively affect spatial learning. Displaying landmarks effectively while providing wayfinding instructions on such services could facilitate spatial learning because landmarks help navigators to structure and learn an environment by serving as cognitive anchors. However, simply addin...
Advancements in hardware technology and analysis methods allow more and more mobility in electroencephalography (EEG) experiments. Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MoBI) studies may record various types of data such as motion or eye tracking in addition to neural activity. Although there are options available to analyze EEG data in a standardized way, th...
Introduction: Spatial navigation is a complex cognitive function that declines
in older age. Finding one’s way around in familiar and new environments is
crucial to live and function independently. However, the current literature
illustrates the efficacy of spatial navigation interventions in rehabilitative
contexts such as pathological aging and t...
Hearing impaired older adults exhibit a reduced walking performance under dual-task (DT) conditions compared to healthy controls or younger adults. The Mobile Brain/ Body Imaging approach (MoBI) allows for the parallel analysis of brain and body during unrestricted movement. Applying this method during different DT conditions in this target group e...
Although beacon- and map-based spatial strategies are the default strategies for navigation activities, today’s navigational aids mostly follow a beacon-based design where one is provided with turn-by-turn instructions. Recent research, however, shows that our reliance on these navigational aids is causing a decline in our spatial skills. We are pr...
The augmentation of landmarks in auditory navigation instructions has been shown to improve incidental spatial knowledge acquisition during assisted navigation. Here, two driving simulator experiments are reported that replicated this effect even when adding a three-week delay between navigation and spatial tasks and varying the degree of detail in...
Landmarks support navigation and spatial learning of environments by serving as cognitive anchors. However, little research has been done to investigate how the design of landmarks on mobile maps affects cognitive processing. To address this gap, the present study utilized a within-subjects design to experimentally examine how three different landm...
Background: Hearing impairments are associated with reduced walking performance under Dual-task (DT) conditions. Little is known about the neural representation of DT performance while walking in this target group compared to healthy controls or younger adults. Therefore, utilizing the Mobile Brain/Body Imaging approach (MoBI), we aim at gaining de...
The repeated use of navigation assistance systems leads to decreased processing of the environment. Previous studies demonstrated that auditory references to landmarks in navigation instructions can improve incidental spatial knowledge acquisition when driving a single route through an unfamiliar virtual environment. Based on these results, three e...
Conducting neuroscience research in the real world remains challenging because of movement‐ and environment‐related artifacts as well as missing control over stimulus presentation. The present study overcame these restrictions by using mobile electroencephalography (EEG) and data driven analysis approaches during a real‐world navigation task.
Durin...
The augmentation of landmarks in auditory navigation instructions had been shown to improve incidental spatial knowledge acquisition during assisted navigation. Here, two driving simulator experiments are reported that replicated this effect even when adding a three-week delay between navigation and spatial tasks and varying the degree of detail in...
Conducting neuroscience research in the real world remains challenging because of movement-and environment-related artifacts as well as missing control over stimulus presentation. The present study demonstrated that it is possible to investigate the neuronal correlates underlying visuo-spatial information processing during real-world navigation. Us...
Quality of Experience is traditionally evaluated by using short stimuli usually representing parts or single usage episodes. This opens the question on how the overall service perception involving multiple usage episodes can be evaluated-a question of high practical relevance to service operators. Despite initial research on this challenging aspect...
Quality of Experience is traditionally evaluated by using short stimuli usually representing parts or single usage episodes. This opens the question on how the overall service perception involving multiple usage episodes can be evaluated - a question of high practical relevance to service operators. Despite initial research on this challenging aspe...
Background. The repeated use of navigation assistance systems leads to decreased spatial orienting abilities. Previous studies demonstrated that augmentation of landmarks using auditory navigation instructions can improve incidental spatial learning when driving on a single route through an unfamiliar environment.
Objective. Based on these results...
Navigation assistance systems support the user while navigating through an environment. With an increasing use of navigation assistance systems, however, orienting abilities decrease as less information about the spatial surrounding is processed (Münzer et al., 2006). Landmarks are important for the acquisition of spatial knowledge. Here, we presen...
Navigation assistance systems support navigating especially in multi-tasking situations like car driving. With an increasing use of assistance systems, however, less information about the spatial surrounding is processed and orienting abilities decrease. Here, we present a new approach that aims at preventing orienting loss by incidentally triggeri...
The use of Navigation Assistance Systems for spatial orienting has become increasingly popular. Such automated navigation support, however, comes with a reduced processing of the surrounding environment and often with a decline of spatial orienting ability. To prevent such deskilling and to support spatial learning, the present study investigated i...
The use of Navigation Assistance Systems for spatial orienting has become increasingly popular. Such automated navigation support, however, comes with a reduced processing of the surrounding environment and often with a decline of spatial orienting ability. To prevent such deskilling and to support spatial learning, the present study investigated i...
The impact of varying performance and its effect on the perceived quality is an important aspect of quality of experience. Especially for service providers, it is important to understand how the perceived quality of a user, who is interacting with their services repeatedly, evolves. Repeated-use of a service is actually common for telecommunication...
In this paper, the occurrence of duration neglect for multi-episodic perceived quality is investigated. Such an effect has been observed for retrospective judgments of individual experiences, showing that the actual duration of exceptional parts of an experience are not reflected in retrospective judgments. Duration neglect has, so far, only receiv...
Projects
Projects (3)
Hearing impaired older adults are an especially vulnerable group prone to fall and hence to the related downwards spiral. Based on biomechanical and neuroscientific results a smartphone application will be developed utilizing simple everyday activities to train hearing alongside gait and balance performance, as well as dual-task management. This training aims to maintain quality of life for the target group.
This project aims at describing human brain dynamics underlying spatial orientation or disorientation. Using behavioral and electroencephalographic measures combined with virtual and real navigation tasks the temporal dynamics and involved cortical networks of spatial orienting are investigated.
The results of different studies inform the general architecture of human spatial orienting, provide a basis for spatial ability diagnostics, serve the development of training approaches and inform navigation assistance system for improved human-machine interface concepts.
Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MoBI) is a recently developed a method that allows for simultaneous recording of brain and body dynamics of humans actively behaving in and interacting with their environment. A mobile imaging approach is needed to study cognitive processes that are inherently based on the use of human physical structure to obtain behavioral goals.
The Berlin Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Lab investigates the brain dynamics underlying and interacting with cognitive and behavioral dynamics in a range of research projects. Here we investigate the brain dynamics in humans actively exploring space (BMBF and DFG projects), the neural dynamics of physical interaction with dynamic objects in 3D space and the impact of architectural space on human perception and emotion.
