SCoPe Lab@ICC 2025 - Vancouver, Canada
The 32nd International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2025), with the theme "Mapping the Future: Innovation, Inclusion, and Sustainability," was held in Vancouver, Canada, from August 17-22, 2025. The ICC is a biennial international conference series and brings together researchers, educators, practitioners, and national mapping agencies working in the field of cartography. The SCoPe Lab attended ICC 2025, with the following work:
- Armand Kapaj presented the talk "Landmark Visualization on Navigation Aids: Effects on Spatial Learning and Long-Term Memory Retention," at the pre-conference workshop Spatial Representations and Thinking in Navigation: A Cognitive Perspective, co-organized with Toru Ishikawa (Toyo University, Japan).
- Armand Kapaj presented the paper "Virtual landmark cues improve spatial learning: evidence from an augmented reality indoor navigation study," co-authored by Aleksei Ilchenko, Armand Kapaj, Tumasch Reichenbacher, and Sara Irina Fabrikant.
- Armand Kapaj presented the paper "From maps in the head to maps in the hand: how does environmental familiarity influence pedestrian navigators’ mobile map use behavior?" co-authored by Qi Ying, Christopher Hilton, Armand Kapaj, and Sara Irina Fabrikant.
- Tumasch Reichenbacher presented the paper "A Comparison of Hand-Held AR and VR for On-Site Assessment of Construction Projects," co-authored by Marcel Garate, Tumasch Reichenbacher, and Armand Kapaj.