Articles in Journals

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*Ying, Q., Dong, W., Fabrikant, S.I. (2024) How do in-car navigation aids impair expert navigators’ spatial learning ability? To appear in Annals of the American Association of Geographers.

Published

Lanini-Maggi, S., Lanz, M., Hilton, C., Fabrikant, S.I. (2024). The positive effect of blue luminescent pathways on urban park visitor’s affective states: A virtual reality online study measuring facial expressions and self-reports. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, doi: 10.1177/23998083241239383.

§Kapaj, A., Hilton, C., Fabrikant, S.I. (2024). The influence of landmark visualization style on task performance, visual attention, and spatial learning in a real-world navigation task. Spatial Cognition & Computation, doi: 10.1080/13875868.2024.2328099.

Hilton, C., §Kapaj, A., Fabrikant, S.I. (2024). Fixation-related potentials during mobile map assisted navigation in the real world: the effect of landmark visualisation style. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, doi: 10.3758/s13414-024-02864-z.

Conroy, M., Gillmann, C., Harvey, F., Mchedlidze, T., Fabrikant, S.I., Windhager, F., Scheuermann, G., Weingart, S., Tangherlini, T., Warren, C.N., Rehbein, M., Borner, K., Elo, K., Jäncke, S., Kerren, A., Nöllenburg, M., Dwyer, T., Eide, Ø., Kobourov, S., and Betz, G., (2024) Uncertainty in Humanities Network Visualization. Frontiers in Communication: Visual Communication, vol. 8, doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2023.1305137.

Kuster, F., Ruginski, I.T., Fabrikant, S.I. (2023) How does your viewing perspective matter for decision making with flood risk maps. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, doi: 10.1080/15230406.2023.2268502.

Lanini-Maggi, S., §Hilton, C., Fabrikant, S.I. (2023). Limiting the reliance on navigation assistance with navigation instructions containing emotionally salient narratives for confident wayfinding. Journal of Environmental Psychology, doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.102151.

Fabrikant, S. I. (2023). Neuroadaptive mobile geographic information displays: an emerging cartographic research frontier. International Journal of Cartography, doi: 10.1080/23729333.2023.2253645.

Fabrikant, S. I. (2023). Neuroadaptive LBS: Towards human–, context–, and task-adaptive mobile geographic information displays to support spatial learning for pedestrian navigation. Journal of Location Based Services, doi: 10.1080/17489725.2023.2258100.

Tominski, C., Behrisch, M., Bleisch, S., Fabrikant, S.I., Mayr, E., Miksch, S., Purchase, H. (2023). Visualizing Uncertainty in Sets, Visualization in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, early access, doi: 10.1109/MCG.2023.3300441. See also, arXiv:2302.11575 [cs.HC] version

§Hilton, C., §Kapaj, A., Fabrikant, S.I. (2023). Landmark sequence learning from real-world route navigation and the impact of navigation aid visualisation style. Journal of Cognition, vol. 6(1), no. 41: 1–8, doi: 10.5334/joc.307.

*Kapaj, A., §Lanini-Maggi, S., §Hilton, C., Fabrikant, S.I. (2023). How does the design of landmarks on a mobile map influence wayfinding experts’ spatial learning during a real-world navigation task? Cartography and Geographic Information Science, doi: 10.1080/15230406.2023.2183525.

*Cheng, B., Lin, E., Wunderlich, A., Gramann, K., Fabrikant, S. I. (2023). Using eye blink-related brain activity to investigate cognitive load during assisted navigation. Frontiers in Neuroscience. Neural Technology, doi: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1024583.

*Cheng, B. Wunderlich, A., Gramann, K., Lin, E., Fabrikant, S. I. (2022). The effect of landmark visualization in mobile maps on brain activity during navigation: A virtual reality study. Frontiers in Virtual Reality, vol. 3. doi: 10.3389/frvir.2022.981625

§Reichenbacher, T., Aliakbarian, M., Gosh, A., Fabrikant, S.I. (2022). Continuous ambulatory assessment and analysis of in-situ map app use behaviour, Journal of Location Based Services. doi: 10.1080/17489725.2022.2105410.

Weber, W., Dingerkus, F., Fabrikant, Sara I., Zampa, M., West, M., and Yildirim, O. (2022). Virtual Reality as a Tool for Political Decision-Making? An Empirical Study on the Power of Immersive Images on Voting Behavior. Frontiers in Visual Communication. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2022.842186.

Bartling, M., Resch, B., §Reichenbacher, T. Havasa, C. R., Robinson, A. C., Fabrikant, S.I., Blaschke, T. (2021). Adapting mobile map application designs to map use context: a review and call for action on potential future research themes. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. doi: 10.1080/15230406.2021.2015720.

§Lanini-Maggi, S., §Ruginski, I.T., Shipley, T.F., Hurter, C., Duchowski, A.T., Briesemeister, B.B., Lee, J., Fabrikant, S.I. (2021). Assessing how visual search entropy and engagement predict performance in a multiple-objects tracking air traffic control task. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, Vol. 4. doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2021.100127.

Tominski, C., Andrienko, G., Andrienko, N., Bleisch, S., Fabrikant, S.I., Mayr, E., Miksch, S., Pohl, M., Skupin, A. (2021). Toward flexible visual analytics augmented through smooth display transitions. Visual Informatics. doi: 10.1016/j.visinf.2021.06.004.

Staub, K., Jüni, P., Urner, M., Matthes, K. L., ‡Leuch, C., Gemperle, G., Bender, N., Fabrikant, S. I., Puhan, M., Rühli, F., §Gruebner, O., Floris, J. (2021). Public health interventions, epidemic growth, and regional variation of the 1918 influenza pandemic outbreak in a Swiss Canton and its greater regions. Annals of Internal Medicine. doi: 10.7326/M20-6231.

Christen M, Brugger P, Fabrikant SI (2021) Susceptibility of domain experts to color manipulation indicate a need for design principles in data visualization. PLoS ONE 16(2): e0246479. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0246479

Korporaal, M., §Ruginski, I. T., Fabrikant, S. I. (2020). Effects of Uncertainty Visualization on Map-Based Decision Making Under Time Pressure. Théron, R., Padilla, L. M. K., (eds.), Frontiers in Computer Science, Human-Media Interaction, Special Issue on Uncertainty Visusalization and Decision Making, doi: 10.3389/fcomp.2020.00032.

Vokinger K. N., Nittas, V., Witt, C. M., Fabrikant, S. I., von Wyl V. (2020). Digital health and the COVID-19 epidemic: an assessment framework for apps from an epidemiological and legal perspective. Swiss Medical Weekly, Vol. 150, no: w20282, doi:10.4414/smw.2020.20282.

Bruggmann, A., Fabrikant, S.I., Purves, R.S. (2020). How can Geographic Information in Text Documents be Visualized to Support Information Exploration in the Humanities? Special Issue on “The Geospatial Humanities: Transdisciplinary Opportunities for the GIScience Community” in the International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing (IJHAC): A Journal of Digital Humanities, Vol. 14, No. 1-2: 98–118. DOI: 10.3366/ijhac.2020.0247.

*Credé, S., Thrash, T., Hölscher, C., Fabrikant, S.I. (2019). The advantage of globally visible landmarks for spatial learning, Journal of Environmental Psychology. Vol. 67, No. 101369: 1-9. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.101369.

Kübler, I., Richter, K.-F., Fabrikant, S. I., (2019). Against all odds: Multi-criteria decision making with hazard prediction maps depicting uncertainty. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2019.1644992.

*Brügger, A., Richter, K.-F., Fabrikant, S. I. (2019). How does navigation system behavior influence human behavior? Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, vol 4, no.5. Recipient of the best article of the year award in Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications by the U.S. Psychonomic Society. DOI: 10.1186/s41235-019-0156-5.

*Credé, S., §Thrash, T., Hölscher, C., Fabrikant, S.I. (2019). The acquisition of survey knowledge for local and global landmark configurations under time pressure. Spatial Cognition and Computation, Vol. 19, No. 5: 190-219. DOI: 0.1080/13875868.2019.1569016.

Boo, G., Leyk, S., Fabrikant, S.I., Graf, R., Pospischil, A., (2019). Exploring Uncertainty in Canine Cancer Data Sources Through Dasymetric Refinement. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, Vol. 6, No. 45: 1-13. DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2019.00045.

Hässig, M., Depka, D., Boo, G., Fabrikant, S.I., Torgerson, P. (2019). [Räumliche Unterschiede in der Prävalenz von Rinderkrankheiten in einer Nutztierpraxis, Vol. 161, No. 2:85-92. DOI: 10.17236/sat00195.

*Lokka, I., §Çöltekin, A., Wiener, J., Fabrikant, S. I., and Röcke, C. (2018). Virtual environments as memory training devices in navigational tasks for older adults. Scientific Reports, vol. 8, no. 10809. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-29029-x.

§Çöltekin, A., §Janetzko, H., Fabrikant, S. I. (2018). Geovisualization. The Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge (2nd Quarter 2018 Edition), John P. Wilson (Ed). DOI: 10.22224/gistbok/2018.2.6.

Stachoň, Z., Šašinka. Č, Čeněk, J., Štěrba, Z., Angsuesser, S., Fabrikant, S.I., Štampach, R., Morong, K. (2018). Cross-cultural differences in figure–ground perception of cartographic stimuli, Vol. 46, No. 1:82-94. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2018.1470575.

*Boo, G., Leyk, S., Brunsdon, C., Graf, R., Pospischil, A., Fabrikant, S.I. (2018). The importance of regional models in assessing canine cancer incidences in Switzerland. PLoS ONE 13(4): 10.1371/journal.pone.0195970.

Schito, J. and Fabrikant, S.I. (2018). Exploring Maps by Sounds: Using Parameter Mapping Sonification to Make Digital Elevation Models Audible. International Journal of Geographic Information Science, Vol. 32, No. 5: 874-906. DOI: 10.1080/ 13658816.2017.1420192.

§Çöltekin, A., Francelet, R., Richter, K.-F., Thoresen, J., Fabrikant, S. I. (2017). The effect of visual realism, spatial abilities, and competition on performance in map-based route learning in men. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Vol. 45, No. 4: 339-353. DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2017.1344569.

*Boo, G., Leyk, S., Fabrikant, S.I., Pospischil, A., Graf, R. (2017). Assessing effects of structural zeros on models of canine cancer incidence: a case study of the Swiss Canine Cancer Registry. Geospatial Health, Vol. 12, No. 1. DOI: 10.4081/gh.2017.539.

Griffin, A.L., White, T. , Fish, C., Tomio, B., Huang, H., Robbi Sluter, C., Meza Bravo, J.V., Fabrikant, S.I., Bleisch, S., Yamada, M., Picanço, Jr., P., Jr. (2017). Designing across map use contexts: A research Agenda. International Journal of Cartography, Vol. 3 (Issue Sup. 1): 90-114. DOI: 10.1080/23729333.2017.1315988.

Kraak, M.-J. and Fabrikant, S.I. (2017). Of Maps, Cartography, and the Geography of the International Cartographic Association. International Journal of Cartography, Vol. 3 (Issue Sup. 1): 9-31. DOI: 10.1080/23729333.2017.1288535.

Grüntzig, K., Graf, R., *Boo, G., Guscetti, F., Hässig, Axhausen, K., Fabrikant, S.I., Welle, M., Meier, D., Folkers, G., Pospischil, A. (2016). Swiss Canine Cancer Registry 1955–2008: Occurrence of the Most Common Tumour Diagnoses and Influence of Age, Breed, Body Size, Sex and Neutering Status on Tumour Development. Journal of Comparative Pathology, Vol. 155, No. 2–3: 156-170. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcpa.2016.05.011.

*Brügger, A., Fabrikant, S.I., §Çöltekin, A. (2016). An Empirical Evaluation of three Elevation Change Symbolization Methods along Routes in Bicycle Maps. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Vol. 44, No. 5: 436-451. DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2016.1193766.

Thoresen, J. C. , Francelet, R., §Cöltekin, A., §Richter, K.-F., Fabrikant, S. I., Sandi. C. (2016). Not all anxious individuals get lost: Trait anxiety and mental rotation ability interact to explain performance in map-based route learning in men. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Vol. 132: 1–8.

*Bruggmann, A., and Fabrikant, S.I., (2016). How does GIScience support spatio-temporal information search in the humanities? Special Issue on Spatial Approaches to Information Search in Spatial Cognition and Computation, Vol. 16, No. 4: 255-271. DOI:10.1080/13875868.2016.1157881.

Graf, R., Grüntzig, K., *Boo, G. Hässig, M., Axhausen, K.W., Fabrikant, S., Welle, M., Meier, D., Guscetti, F., Folkers, G., Otto, V., Pospischil, A. (2016). The Swiss Feline Cancer Registry: the Influence of Sex, Breed and Age on Tumour Types and Tumour Locations. Journal of Comparative Pathology, Vol. 154, No. 2-3: 195-210. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcpa.2016.01.008.

§Reichenbacher, T., De Sabbata, S., Purves, R.S., Fabrikant, S.I. (2016). Assessing geographic relevance for mobile search: a computational model and its validation via crowd sourcing. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 67. No. 11: 2620–2634. DOI: 10.1002/asi.23625.

Graf, R., Grüntzig, K., Hässig, M., Axhausen, K.W., Fabrikant, S., Welle, M., Meier, D., Guscetti, F., Folkers, G., Otto, V., Pospischil, A. (2015). The Swiss Feline Cancer Registry: a retrospective study on the occurrence of tumours in cats in Switzerland from 1955-2008. Journal of Comparative Pathology. Vol., 153, No. 4: 266-277. DOI:10.1016/j.jcpa.2015.08.007.

*Maggi, S., Fabrikant, S.I., Imbert, J.-P., Hurter, C. (2015). How do Display Design and User Characteristics Matter in Animations? An Empirical Study with Air Traffic Control Displays. Cartographica, Vol. 51, No. 1:25-37. DOI: 10.3138/cart.3176.

*Maggi, S., Fabrikant, S.I., Imbert, J.-P., Hurter, C. (2015). Principes cartographiques et caractéristiques utilisateurs dans la visualisation dynamique d’information. French translation of “How do Display Design and User Characteristics Matter in Animations? An Empirical Study with Air Traffic Control Displays” for Le Comité Français de Cartographie (LECFC).

*Ory, J., Christophe, S. and Fabrikant, S.I., Bucher, B. (2015). How Do Map Readers Recognize a Topographic Mapping Style? The Cartographic Journal, vol. 52, no. 2: 193-203. DOI: 10.1080/00087041.2015.1119459.

*Ory, J., Christophe, S. and Fabrikant, S.I., Bucher, B. (2015). Comment les utilisateurs reconnaissent-ils un style topographique? French translation of “How Do Map Readers Recognize a Topographic Mapping Style?” for Le Comité Français de Cartographie (LECFC).

Salvini, M.M., Fabrikant, S.I. (2015). Spatialization of user-generated content to uncover the multifunctional world city network. Environment and Planning B, vol. 47: 1-21. DOI:10.1177/0265813515603868.

Fabrikant, S.I., Gabathuler, C., Skupin, A. (2015). SOMViz: Web-based Self-Organizing Maps. Kartographische Nachrichten, vol. 65, no. 2: 81-91. DOI: 10.1007/BF03545092.

Grüntzig, K., Graf, R. Hässig, M., Welle, M., Meier, D., Lott, G., Erni, D., Schenker, N.S., Guscetti, F., *Boo, G., Axhausen, K., Fabrikant, S.I., Folkers, G., Pospischil, A. (2015). The Swiss Canine Cancer Registry: a retrospective study on the occurrence of tumours in dogs in Switzerland from 1955-2008. Journal of Comparative Pathology, vol. 152: 161-171. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcpa.2015.02.005

Ooms, K., §Coltekin, A., De Maeyer, P., Dupont, L., Fabrikant, S.I., Incoul, A., Kuhn, M., Slabbinck, H., Vansteenkiste, P., Van der Haegen, L. (2014). Combining user logging with eye tracking for interactive and dynamic applications. Behavior Research Methods, Vol. 47: 977–993. DOI 10.3758/s13428-014-0542-3.

*Bruggmann, A., *Salvini, M.M., Fabrikant, S.I. (2014). Agglomerationen mit nutzergenerierten Inhalten neu definiert – Visualisierung der Nordostschweiz mithilfe von Wikipedia. [Agglomerations newly defined with crowd-sourced data: visualizing North Eastern Switzerland based on Wikipedia content]. disP – The Planning Review, Vol. 49, No. 4: 37-45.

Hurter, C., Ersoy, O., Fabrikant, S.I., Telea, A. (2013). Bundled Visualization of Dynamic Graph and Trail Data. IEEE Transactions on Visualizations and Computer Graphics, Vol. 20, No. 8: 1141-1157. DOI: doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TVCG.2013.246.

Opach, T., Golebiowska, I., Fabrikant, S.I. (2014). How Do People View Multi- Component Animated Maps? Cartograhic Journal, Vol. 51, No. 4: 330-342. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1179/1743277413Y.0000000049.

Barth, L., Fabrikant, S.I., Kobourov, S. Lubiw, A., Nöllenburg, M., Okamoto, Y., Pupyrev, S., Squarcella, C., Ueckerdt, T., Wolff, A. (2013). Semantic Word Cloud Representations: Hardness and Approximation Algorithms. ArXiv eprint: arXiv:1311.4778 [cs.CG].

Christen, M., Vitacco, D. A., Huber, L., Harboe, J., Fabrikant, S.I., Brugger, P. (2013). Colorful brains: 14 Years of Display Practice in Functional Neuroimaging, NeuroImage., Vol. 73: 30–39. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.01.068.

*Wilkening, J. and Fabrikant, S.I. (2013). How Users Interact With a 3D Geo-Browser under Time Pressure. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Vol. 40, No. 1: 40-52. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2013.762140.

Pospischil, A., Hässig, M., Vogel, R., *Salvini, M.M., Fabrikant, S.I., Axhausen, K., Schenker, N.S., Erni, D., Guscetti, F. (2013). Hundepopulation und Hunderassen in der Schweiz von 1955 bis 2008. Schweizer Archiv für Tierheilkunde, Vol. 155, No. 4: 219-228. DOI: 10.1024/0036-7281/a000450.

Andrienko, G., Andrienko, N., Demsar, U., Dransch, D., Dykes, J., Fabrikant, S.I., Jern, M., Kraak, M.-J., Schumann, H., Tominski, C. (2010). Space, Time, and Visual Analytics. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, vol. 24, no. 10: 1577-1600. DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2010.508043.

§Çöltekin, A., Fabrikant, S.I., and ‡Lacayo, M. (2010). Exploring the efficiency of users’ visual analytics strategies based on sequence analysis of eye movement recordings, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, vol. 24, no. 10: 1559-1575. DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2010.511718.

Hegarty, M., Canham, M., and Fabrikant, S.I. (2010). Thinking about the Weather: How Display Salience and Knowledge Affect Performance in a Graphic Inference Task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, vol., 36, no. 1: 37-53. DOI: 10.1037/a0017683

Fabrikant, S.I., *Rebich-Hespañha, S., Hegarty, M. (2010). Cognitively inspired and perceptually salient graphic displays for efficient spatial inference making. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol. 100, no. 1: 1-17. DOI: 10.1080/00045600903362378.

Fabrikant, S.I., Montello, D. R., and Mark, D. M. (2010). The Natural Landscape Metaphor in Information Visualization: The Role of Commonsense Geomorphology. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol. 61, no. 2: 253-270. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.21227.

Kramis, M., ‡Gabathuler, C., Fabrikant, S.I., Waldvogel, M. (2009). An XML-Based Infrastructure to Enhance Geographic Visual Analytics. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, vol. 36, no. 3: 281-293.

§Çöltekin, A., ‡Heil, B., ‡Garlandini, S., Fabrikant, S.I. (2009). Evaluating the Effectiveness of Interactive Map Interface Designs: A Case Study Integrating Usability Metrics with Eye-Movement Analysis. DOI: 10.1559/152304009787340197. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, vol. 36, no. 1: 5-17.

Fabrikant, S.I., *Rebich-Hespañha, S., Andrienko, N., Andrienko, G., Montello, D. R. (2008). Novel Method to Measure Inference Affordance in Static Small Multiple Displays Representing Dynamic Processes. The Cartographic Journal, vol. 45, no. 3: 201-215. DOI: 10.1179/000870408X311396.

Fabrikant, S.I., and Montello, D. R. (2008). The Effect of Instructions on Distance and Similarity Judgments in Information Spatializations. International Journal of Geographic Information Science, vol. 22, no. 4: 463-478. DOI: 10.1080/13658810701517096

*Leuthold, H., *Herrman, M., Fabrikant, S.I. (2007). Making the Political Landscape Visible: Mapping and Analyzing Voting Patterns in an Ideological Space. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, vol. 34, no. 5: 785-807. DOI: 10.1068/b3304t-

Fabrikant, S.I., Montello, D. R., and Mark, D. M. (2006). The Distance-Similarity Metaphor in Region-Display Spatializations, IEEE Computer Graphics & Application. July/August 2006: 34-44. DOI: 10.1109/MCG.2006.90.

Fabrikant, S.I. Montello, D.R., ‡Ruocco, M., *Middleton, R.S. (2004). The Distance- Similarity Metaphor in Network-Display Spatializations. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, vol. 31, no. 4, 237-252. DOI: 10.1559/1523040042742402.

Fabrikant, S.I. (2003). Distanz als Raummetapher für die Informationsvisualisierung. Distance as a Spatial Metaphor for the Visualisation of Information. Kartographische Nachrichten, vol. 52, no 6: 276-282.

Skupin A. and Fabrikant, S.I. (2003). Spatialization Methods: A Cartographic Research Agenda for Non-Geographic Information Visualization. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, vol. 30, no. 2, 95-119. DOI: 10.1559/152304003100011081.

Fabrikant, S.I. (2003). Commentary on “A History of Twentieth-Century American Academic Cartography” by Robert McMaster and Susanna McMaster, Special Issue: Exploratory Essays: History of Cartography in the Twentieth Century, Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Vol. 30, No. 1:81-84. DOI: 10.1559/152304003100010965.

Fabrikant, S. I. and Buttenfield, B. P. (2001). Formalizing Spaces for Information Access. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Vol. 91, No. 2: 263-280. DOI: 10.1111/0004-5608.00242. [Received the 3rd highest citation count (based on the ISI Citation Database) amongst the most cited “Methods, Models, and Geographic Information Systems” (MMGIS) papers that appeared in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers during the period 2001-2009.]

Fabrikant, S. I. (2000). Spatialized Browsing in Large Data Archives. Transactions in GIS, vol. 4, no. 1: 65-78. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9671.00038.