Urban navigation is not purely visual: sound plays a crucial role in how people orient themselves. This thesis explores how sound should be modeled in GIS to better support pedestrian wayfinding.

Rural navigation benefits from landmark-based systesm. This thesis investigates whether machine learning can predict which geographic features are perceived as landmarks in non-urban environments.

Water is a challenging navigation environment due to limited visibility and dynamic conditions. This thesis investigates which underwater sounds are salient or useful for navigation in water and how acoustic cues can complement visual landmarks.

This thesis investigates how humans and large language models (LLMs) perceive and evaluate walkability. The idea is to compares qualitative and quantitative assessments from human participants (via surveys, interviews, or think-aloud) with walkability evaluations generated by LLMs.

Walkability is a key component of sustainable and livable cities. This thesis explores how walkability data can be transformed into a informative data story and how users engage with and interpret a data story about urban walkability.

Erholungszonen sind wichtig besonders in hoch-urbanen Gebieten. In dieser Arbeit wird unterscht welche Aktivit?ten im Park an welchen Orten stattfinden und welche Parameter dabei eine Rolle spielen

Understanding when, how and why people carry out activities in public parks helps with management options as well as with designing new or re-designing existing parks. This thesis investigates how observed activities can be modeled and simulated and what extensions to existing models need to be implemented.

Aus der Umweltpsychologie wissen wir, dass die Struktur von geographischen R?umen in Form von Image Schemata wahrgenommen wird. In dieser Arbeit wird untersucht welche Image schemata auf dem Campus identifiziert werden k?nnen und welche sind besonders für mobilit?tsbehinderte Personen geeignet.