Research
Our team of researchers has diverse interests that we aggregated into four areas.
Cognitive Engineering
This research focuses on modeling how landmarks are perceived, represented, and used across different sensory modalities—visual, auditory, and olfactory—within diverse environmental contexts such as urban areas, natural landscapes, and aquatic settings. By examining how individuals recognize and recall landmarks through multiple senses, the study seeks to uncover how multimodal cues influence spatial orientation and navigation. A combination of controlled experiments, user studies, and field observations is used to investigate these effects across different populations and scenarios. The research further explores how landmarks can be personalized to match user preferences, abilities, and situational needs, supporting the design of adaptive navigation systems that enhance wayfinding, environmental awareness, and spatial memory.
Agent-based modelling and simulation
This research focuses on simulating how individual agents—such as people, vehicles, or autonomous systems—move, interact, and make decisions in spatial environments. Each agent follows its own rules and goals, allowing complex collective patterns to emerge from simple behaviors. This approach helps to understand and predict real-world dynamics such as human wayfinding and navigation, pedestrian flows in city centers, evacuation processes in stadiums, visitor movements in the Bavarian National Forest, or the coordination of multi-modal transport systems. It also supports the development of intelligent mobility solutions, including self-navigating buses on university campuses.
Geoinformatics in Archaeology
This research focuses on visualizing geospatial information and facilitating human reasoning.
Visualisation
This research focuses on visualizing geospatial information and facilitating human reasoning.