The vocabulary problem in human-system communication
Communications of the ACM
Natural command names and initial learning: a study of text-editing terms
Communications of the ACM
The natural language of interactive systems
Communications of the ACM
Towards Cognitive Adequacy of Topological Spatial Relations
Spatial Cognition II, Integrating Abstract Theories, Empirical Studies, Formal Methods, and Practical Applications
A Cognitive Assessment of Topological Spatial Relations: Results from an Empirical Investigation
COSIT '97 Proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: A Theoretical Basis for GIS
Qualitative Spatial Representation and Reasoning: An Overview
Fundamenta Informaticae - Qualitative Spatial Reasoning
The role of ontology in improving gazetteer interaction
International Journal of Geographical Information Science - Digital Gazetteer Research
Identifying factors of geographic event conceptualisation
International Journal of Geographical Information Science
The endpoint hypothesis: a topological-cognitive assessment of geographic scale movement patterns
COSIT'09 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Spatial information theory
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In previous empirical work humans did not recognize the definition of most topological operators for regions by their names in two geospatial information systems (GIS). This work differentiates the not corresponding definitions and comprises more topological terms in order to find better term/definition matches. The main hypothesis is that the majority of acceptable matches – defined as matches selected by the majority of subjects – are others than those used in GIS. In an explorative questionnaire study, 34 native German speaking subjects matched German topological terms to graphical depictions of topological relations. The acceptability of matches was tested with the approximate binomial test (null hypothesis: 50 percent of the subjects or less select a match). Ten matches are acceptable (significance level 0.10 or higher); only one of them appears in the GIS. This supports the main hypothesis and indicates how to revise topological operators in GIS.