Denise Peters

My research interests centre on the tripartite interplay between human behaviour, the environment where the behaviour takes place and adequate assistance that helps human. What drives my research interest is the question “Which information do people need for a specific wayfinding task and why do they need this certain information”. How should a helpful visualisation of an environment, motivated by the cognitive needs of the person, should look like defined for a certain tasks.
I approach this question in the context of virtual environments. By designing this virtual environment I transfer schematization techniques for maps to virtual environments. Within the scope of my work the term schematization means to display the adequate information in the adequate form in wayfinding assistance systems like maps or, in my case, virtual environments.