{"pk":29132,"title":"The Role of Task Characteristics and Individual Differences in Pointing to UnseenLocations","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Pointing tasks have been used for decades to investigate peoples understanding of environmental-scale spaces. Most ofthis research has used the variability of pointing estimates to provide insights into peoples cognitive maps. In pointingexperiments, experimenters need to identify a signal within the trial-by-trial and participant-by-participant variability.However, it is not well understood how characteristics of the task and differences between individuals contribute to pointingvariability. In this paper, I investigated characteristics of pointing tasks and individual differences (i.e., gender, sense-of-direction, familiarity, and strategy use) to provide insights into the factors that influence pointing accuracy and itsvariability. Using the findings of this study, I make recommendations for best-practices in pointing task methods andanalyses.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0kf1j077","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Heather","middle_name":"","last_name":"Burte","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Texas at Arlington","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29132/galley/19003/download/"}]}