three possible lines:
1. if you consider the spatial design of cities to be a ‘technology’ then there ought to be implications for how to design cities to be more easily readable;
2. there could be opportunities for training people to navigate intuitively through unfamiliar urban areas. Think of out of area operations in the military;
3. there might be some implications for the design of sat nav systems - I am not quite sure about this though.
Alan
> On 26 Mar 2017, at 20:08, Daniele Quercia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I m a big fan of this line of work. Yet, I cannot come up with any game-changing insight for building new technologies (which is not the focus of this work, and rightly so). That is, I wonder what the important practical implications are (other than those coming from insights that can be easily produced without scanning any brain). Happy to hear any thought ...
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> On 26 Mar 2017, at 11:39, El-Khouly, Tamer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> A simplified version of this article can be found here:
>> https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603951/this-is-your-brain-on-gps-navigation/
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>> This is your brain on GPS navigation
>> www.technologyreview.com
>> Parts of the brain that are used to navigate and plan routes aren’t active when directions are fed to us.
>> The conclusion drew my attention to Kevin Lynch's mental maps where the human brain draws simple maps created from memory while navigating freely, providing several options to reach one place via different routes which is by far smarter than complete reliance on GPS, digital maps and smart mobile phones' hyper-connectivity.
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>> Tamer
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