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  1. Klippel, A., & Hirtle, S. C. (Eds.). 2008. You-Are-Here Maps: Creating a Sense of Place through Map-like Representations. Workshop held in conjunction with the International Conference Spatial Cognition 2008, September 15-19, 2008, Freiburg, Germany.
  2. Klippel, A. (2003). Wayfinding choremes. Conceptualizing wayfinding and route direction elements. Bremen: Universität Bremen.
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JOURNAL ARTICLES

  1. Klippel, A., Hardisty, F., Li, R., & Weaver, C. (accepted, 2009). Color enhanced star plot glyphs – Can salient shape characteristics be overcome? Cartographica
  2. Klippel, A., Hardisty, F., & Weaver, C. (accepted, 2009). Star plots: How shape characteristics influence classification tasks. Cartography and Geographic Information Science.
  3. Klippel, A. (accepted, 2009). Human factors in GIScience laboratory at The Pennsylvania State University. Cognitive Processing.
    Springer
  4. Klippel, A., Hansen, S., Richter, K.-F., & Winter, S. (accepted, 2009). Urban Granularities - A Data Structure for Cognitively Ergonomic Route Directions. GeoInformatica.
    Springer, pdf (prefinal draft)
  5. Klippel, A., Worboys, M., & Duckham, M. (2008). Identifying factors of geographic event conceptualisation. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 22(2), 183–204.
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  6. Klippel, A ., Worboys, M., & Duckham, M. (2006). Geographic event conceptualization. Cognitive Processing, 7 (S5), S52-S54.
  7. Klippel, A., Freksa, C., & Winter, S. (2006). The danger of getting lost - YAH maps in emergencies. Journal of Spatial Sciences, 51(1), 117-131.
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  8. Klippel, A., Tappe, H., Kulik, L., & Lee, P. U. (2005). Wayfinding choremes - A language for modeling conceptual route knowledge. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 16(4), 311-329.
    science direct prefinal draft
  9. Lee, P. U., Tappe, H., & Klippel, A. (2002). Acquisition of landmark knowledge from static and dynamic presentation of route maps. Künstliche Intelligenz, 4, 32-34.
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  10. Freksa, C., Barkowsky, T., & Klippel, A. (1999). Spatial symbol systems and spatial cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22(4), 616-617.
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FULLY REFEREED CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Klippel, A. Tenbrink, T., and Montello, D. R. (to appear) The role of structure and function in the conceptualization of directions. To be published in Emile van der Zee and Mila Vulchanova (eds.), Motion Encoding in Language and Space. Oxford University Press.
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  2. Klippel, A., Richter, K.-F., & Hansen, S. (to appear). Cognitively ergonomic route directions. In H. A. Karimi (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Geoinformatics. Idea Group Reference.
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  3. Klippel, A., & Montello, D. R. (2007). Linguistic and nonlinguistic turn direction concepts. In S. Winter, B. Kuipers, M. Duckham, & L. Kulik (Eds.), Spatial Information Theory. 9th International Conference, COSIT 2007, Melbourne, Australia, September 19-23, 2007 Proceedings (pp. 354–372). Berlin: Springer.
    Best Paper Award
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  4. Haque, S., Kulik, L., & Klippel, A. (2007). Algorithms for reliable navigation and wayfinding. In T. Barkowsky, M. Knauff, G. Ligozat & D. R. Montello (Eds.), Spatial Cognition V. Reasoning, Action, Interaction (pp. 308–326). Berlin: Springer.
    Best Paper Award
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  5. Richter, K.-F., & Klippel, A. (2007). Before or after: Prepositions in spatially constrained systems. In T. Barkowsky, M. Knauff, G. Ligozat & D. R. Montello (Eds.), Spatial Cognition V. Reasoning, Action, Interaction (pp. 453–469). Berlin: Springer.
  6. Furlan, A., Baldwin, T., & Klippel, A. (2007). Landmark classification for route description generation. Proceedings of the Fourth ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions, Prague, Czech Republic (pp. 9–16).
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  7. Hommel, B., & Klippel, A. (2007). Embodying spatial maps. In H. Schultheis, T. Barkowsky, B. Kuipers, & B. Hommel (Eds.), AAAI Spring Symposium 2007 on Control Mechanisms for Spatial Knowledge Processing in Cognitive / Intelligent Systems. AAAI Press.
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  8. Hansen, S., Richter, K.-F., & Klippel, A. (2006). Landmarks in OpenLS: A data structure for cognitive ergonomic route directions. In M. Raubal, H. Miller, A. U. Frank, & M. F. Goodchild (Eds.), GIScience 2006 (pp. 128-144). Berlin: Springer.
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  9. Klippel, A. Richter, K.-F., and Hansen, S. (2005): Wayfinding choreme maps. In: Bres, S.; Laurini, R. (Hg.): 8th International Conference on VISual Information Systems (VISUAL 2005). Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 4-5, 2005 (pp. 94-108). Berlin: Springer.
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  10. Klippel, A., & Winter, S. (2005). Structural salience of landmarks for route directions. In A. G. Cohn & D. M. Mark (Eds.), Spatial Information Theory. International Conference, COSIT 2005, Ellicottville, NY, USA, September 14-18, 2005, Proceedings (pp. 347-362). Berlin: Springer.
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  11. Klippel, A., Hansen, S., Davies, J., & Winter, S. (2005). A high-level cognitive framework for route directions. In Proceedings of the SSC 2005 Spatial Intelligence, Innovation and Praxis: The National Biennial Conference of the Spatial Science Institute, September 2005. Melbourne.
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  12. Klippel, A., Richter, K.-F., Barkowsky, T., & Freksa, C. (2005). The cognitive reality of schematic maps. In A. Zipf, T. Reichenbacher & L. Meng (Eds.), Map-based Mobile Services - Theories, Methods and Implementations (57-71). Berlin: Springer
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  13. Klippel, A., Lee, P. U., Fabrikant, S. I., Montello, D. R., & Bateman, J. (2005). The cognitive conceptual approach as a leitmotif for map design. In AAAI 2005 Spring Symposium Series, Reasoning with Mental and External Diagrams: Computational Modeling and Spatial Assistance, Stanford University, California, March 21-23, 2005.AAAI Press.
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  14. Lee, P. U., & Klippel, A. (2005). Dynamic aspects of spatial information in air traffic controller displays. In AAAI 2005 Spring Symposium Series, Reasoning with Mental and External Diagrams: Computational Modeling and Spatial Assistance, Stanford University, California, March 21-23, 2005. AAAI Press.
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  15. Klippel, A., Knuf, L., Hommel, B., & Freksa, C. (2005). Perceptually induced distortions in cognitive maps. In C. Freksa, M. Knauff & B. Krieg-Brueckner (Eds.), Spatial Cognition IV. Reasoning, Action, and Interaction: International Conference Spatial Cognition 2004, Frauenchiemsee, Germany, October 11-13, 2004, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 204-213). Berlin: Springer.
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  16. Richter, K.-F., & Klippel, A. (2005). A model for context-specific route directions. In C. Freksa, M. Knauff & B. Krieg-Brueckner (Eds.), Spatial Cognition IV. Reasoning, Action, and Interaction: International Conference Spatial Cognition 2004, Frauenchiemsee, Germany, October 11-13, 2004, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 58-78). Berlin: Springer.
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  17. Klippel, A., Dewey, C., Knauff, M., Richter, K.-F., Montello, D. R., Freksa, C., et al. (2004). Direction concepts in wayfinding assistance. In J. Baus, C. Kray & R. Porzel (Eds.), Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Systems 2004 (AIMS'04) (pp. 1-8). Saarbrücken: SFB 378 Memo 84.
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  18. Klippel, A., Tappe, H., & Habel, C. (2003). Pictorial representations of routes: chunking route segments during comprehension. In C. Freksa, W. Brauer, C. Habel & K. F. Wender (Eds.), Spatial Cognition III. Routes and Navigation, Human Memory and Learning, Spatial Representation and Spatial Learning (pp. 11-33). Berlin: Springer.
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  19. Klippel, A. (2003). Wayfinding choremes. In W. Kuhn, M. Worboys & S. Timpf (Eds.), Spatial Information Theory: Foundations of Geographic Information Science. Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT) 2003 (pp. 320-334). Berlin: Springer.
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  20. Lee, P. U., Klippel, A., & Tappe, H. (2003). The effect of motion in graphical user interfaces. In A. Butz, A. Krüger & P. Olivier (Eds.), Smart Graphics. Third International Symposium, SG 2003, Heidelberg, Germany, July2-4, 2003, Proceedings (pp. 12-21). Berlin: Springer.
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  21. Klippel, A., & Kulik, L. (2000). Using grids in maps. In M. Anderson, P. Cheng & V. Haarslev (Eds.), Theory and application of diagrams. First International Conference, Diagrams 2000, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, September 1-3, 2000 Proceedings (pp. 486-489). Berlin: Springer.
  22. Casakin, H., Barkowsky, T., Klippel, A., & Freksa, C. (2000). Schematic maps as wayfinding aids. In C. Freksa, W. Brauer, C. Habel & K. F. Wender (Eds.), Spatial Cognition II - Integrating Abstract Theories, Empirical Studies, Formal Methods, and Practical Applications (pp. 54-71). Berlin: Springer.
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  23. Kulik, L., & Klippel, A. (1999). Reasoning about cardinal directions using grids as qualitative geographic coordinates. In C. Freksa & D. M. Mark (Eds.), Spatial information theory - Cognitive and computational foundations of geographic information science (pp. 205-220). Berlin: Springer.
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  24. Klippel, A. (1999). Relaxierte Lokalisation - Kognitive Implikationen schematischer Karten. In I. Wachsmuth & B. Jung (Eds.), KogWis99 - Proceedings der 4. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft, Bielefeld, 28. September - 1. Oktober 1999 (pp. 49-54). Sankt Augustin: Infix.

OTHER BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Klippel, A. (2001/2002). Fachauthor: Themengebiet Raumkognition (Author for topic: Spatial Cognition). In J. Bollmann &. G.W. Koch (Eds.), Lexikon der Kartographie und Geomatik. Heidelberg: Spektrum Verlag.
    [Provided keyworks: Naive Geography, Landmark, Landmark Knowledge, Spatial Knowledge, Survey Knowledge, Route Knowledge, Granularity, Image Schemata, Decision Point, Sketch Map, Spatial Cognition, Cognitive Distance, Spatial Problem Solving, Spatial Concept, Cognitive Map, Reference System, Spatial Reasoning, Qualitative Spatial Reasoning, Spatial Relation, Cognitive Direction, Wayfinding, Mental Model, Mental Representation, External Representation, Cognitive Science, Vista Space, Figural Space.]
  2. Klippel, A. (2007, in press). Mental map. In Kemp, K. K. (Ed) Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science, SAGE, London.

OTHER REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

  1. Klippel, A., Li, R., Wu, A., & Zhang, X. (2008). Interactive, multiscale you-are-here maps. In A. Klippel & S. C. Hirtle (Eds.), You-Are-Here Maps: Creating a Sense of Place through Map-like Representations. Workshop held in conjunction with the International Conference Spatial Cognition 2008, September 15-19, 2008, Freiburg, Germany (pp. 11–20).
  2. Klippel, A., & Weaver, C. (2008). Analyzing behavioral similarity measures in linguistic and non-linguistic conceptualization of spatial information and the question of individual differences. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Information Semantics and its Implications for Geographic Analysis.
  3. Klippel, A., MacEachren, A. M., Mitra, P., Turton, I., Jaiswal, A., & Soon, K., et al. (2008). Wayfinding choremes 2.0: Conceptual primitives as a basis for translating natural into formal language. In N. van der Weghe, R. Billen, B. Kuijpers, & P. Bogaert (Eds.), Moving Objects: From Natural to Formal Language. Workshop held in conjunction with GIScience 2008, Park City, Utah.
  4. Klippel, A., MacEachren, A. M., Mitra, P., Turton, I., Zhang, X., & Jaiswal, A., et al. (2008). Geographic analysis of linguistically encoded movement patterns: A contextualized perspective. In GIScience 2008 Abstracts.
  5. Klippel, A., Worboys, M., & Duckham, M. (2006). Conceptual neighborhood blindness - On the cognitive adequacy of gradual topological changes: Spatial Cognition 2006 Workshop: Talking about and perceiving moving objects: exploring the bridge between natural language, perception and formal ontologies of space. Bremen, Germany.
  6. Klippel, A., Richter, K.-F., & Hansen, S. (2005). Structural salience as a landmark. In MOBILE MAPS 2005 - Interactivity and Usability of Map-based Mobile Services. Workshop at MobileHCI, Salzburg 2005. (extended abstract)
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  7. Klippel, A., Tenbrink, T., & Montello, D. R. (2005). Beyond left, right, and straight: How speakers disambiguate route directions. In Australian Linguistic Society Conference 2005, Melbourne. (abstract)
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  8. Tenbrink, T., & Klippel, A. (2005). Achieving reference via contrast in route descriptions and spatial object identification. The 21st Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics. (abstract)
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  9. Klippel, A., & Montello, D. R. (2004). On the robustness of mental conceptualizations of turn direction concepts. In M. J. Egenhofer, C. Freksa & H. Miller (Eds.), GIScience 2004. The Thrid International Conference on Geogrpahic Information Science, October 20-23, 2004, University of Maryland (pp. 139-141). Adelphi, Maryland, U.S.A.: Regents of the University of California.
  10. Klippel, A., & Richter, K.-F. (2004). Chorematic focus maps. In G. Gartner (Ed.), Location Based Services & Telecartography. Proceedings of the Symposium 2004 (pp. 39-45). Wien, Austria.
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  11. Richter, K.-F., Klippel, A., & Freksa, C. (2004). Shortest, Fastest, - but what Next? A Different Approach to Route Directions. In Geoinformation und Mobilität - von der Forschung zur praktischen Anwendung. Beiträge zu den Münsteraner GI-Tagen 2004 (pp. 205-217). Münster: IfGIprints. Institut für Geoinformatik.
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  12. Klippel, A. (2003). Wayfinding Choremes. In Proceedings of the 45. Conference of Experimentally Working Psychologists (TeaP) 2003, Kiel. (abstract)
  13. Richter, K.-F., & Klippel, A. (2002). You-are-here-maps: Wayfinding support as location based service. In J. Möltgen & A. Wytzisk (Eds.), GI-Technologien für Verkehr und Logistik. Beiträge zu den Münsteraner GI-Tagen 20./21. Juni 2002 (pp. 357-364): IfGIprints, 13: Münster.
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  14. Lee, P.U., Tappe, H., and Klippel, A. (2002). Acquisition of landmark knowledge from static and dynamic presentation of route maps. In W. Gray & C. Schunn (Eds.), Proceedings of the twenty-fourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 1017). Fairfax, Virginia.
  15. Klippel, A. & Tappe, H. (2002). Pieces of information. Combining route elements to sensible chunks. In E. van der Meer, R. Beyer, F. Krüger, A. Nuthmann, and S. Schulz (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43. Conference of the DGP (German Society of Psychology). Berlin: Pabst.
  16. Klippel, A. & Tappe, H. (2001). Conceptual spatial representations in language and graphics (pp. 117-118). In T. Arnold & C.S. Herrmann (Eds.), Cognitive Systems & Mechanisms. KogWis 2001. 5th meeting of the German Cognitive Science Society. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag.
  17. Tappe, H., Klippel, A. & Habel, C. (2001). On abstract spatial representations underlying language and sketch-map production. Proceedings of the Eighth European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition. EWIC 2001, Palais du Grand Large, Saint-Malo, France.
  18. Klippel, A. (2000). Representing qualitative spatial knowledge in schematic maps. In S. Winter (Ed.), Geographical Domain and Geographical Information Systems. Vienna: GeoInfo Series Vol. 19. Institute for Geoinformation, Vienna University of Technology.
  19. Klippel, A., Barkowsky, T., & Freksa, C. (1998). Maps versus sketches. The Second Swedish Symposium on Multimodal Communication. Lund University Cognitive Science.

MISCELLANEOUS

  1. Xu, S., Klippel, A., MacEachren, A. M., Mitra, P., Turton, I., & Zhang, J., et al. (2009). Regional linguistic difference, route description, spatial orientation, language pattern, cardinal/relative direction usage. In AAG. Las Vegas, Nevada, AAG. Las Vegas, Nevada .
  2. Li, R., & Klippel, A. (2009). Stuck in the Stacks: Assessing and Solving Wayfinding Problems in Complex Buildings. In AAG. Las Vegas, Nevada, AAG. Las Vegas, Nevada.
  3. Freksa, C., Klippel, A., & Winter, S. (2006). A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Context. In: Cohn, A.G.; Freksa, C.; Nebel, B. (Eds.), Spatial Cognition: Specialization and Integration. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings. Internationales Begegnungs- und Forschungszentrum (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany.
  4. Hansen, S., Klippel, A., & Richter, K.-F. (2006). Cognitive OpenLS specification (SFB/TR 8 Report No. 012-10/2006). Bremen.
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  5. Klippel, A. (2004). Wayfinding choremes - conceptualizing wayfinding and route direction elements. KI, 18(1), 63-64.
  6. Freksa, C., Barkowsky, T., & Klippel, A. (1998). Interpretative and constructive processes in spatially organized knowledge structures. In O. Herzog & A. Günter (Eds.), KI-98: Advances in Artificial Intelligence (p. 272). Berlin: Springer.
  7. Klippel, A. (1999). Localization constraints in schematic and topographic maps. In A. Vandierendonck, M. Brysbaert & K. van der Goten (Eds.), Proc. Eleventh Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP) (p. 119). Gent: Academia Press (abstract)
  8. Klippel, A. (1997). Kognitive Prozesse auf symbolisch repräsentierten Informationsaggregaten. Theoretische und empirische Untersuchungen zur Darstellung und kognitiven Verarbeitung aggregierter Information. Diplomarbeit, Universität Trier.
  9. Klippel, A. (1996). Raumkognition und Präsentation. Studienarbeit, Universität Trier.