Peer reviewed publications 

Zhao, H., Schwabe, A., Schläfli, F., Thrash, T., Aguilar, L., Dubey, R. K., ... & Schinazi, V. R. (2022). Fire evacuation supported by centralized and decentralized visual guidance systems. Safety science, 145, 105451. Download PDF

Macnamara, A., Schinazi, V. R., Chen, C., Coussens, S., & Loetscher, T. (2021). Vision impairments reduce cognitive test performance. Nature Aging, 1-2. Download PDF

Macnamara, A., Chen, C., Schinazi, V. R., Saredakis, D., & Loetscher, T. (2021). Simulating Macular Degeneration to Investigate Activities of Daily Living: A Systematic Review. In Frontiers in Neuroscience, Vol. 15, 1026. Download PDF

Grübel, J., Gath-Morad, M., Aguilar, L., Thrash, T., Sumner, R. W., Hölscher, C., & Schinazi, V.R. (2021). Fused Twins: A Cognitive Approach to Augmented Reality Media Architecture. In Media Architecture Biennale 20 (pp. 215-220). Download PDF

Grübel, J., Thrash, T., Hélal, D., Sumner, R. W., Hölscher, C., & Schinazi, V. R. (2021, March). The feasibility of dense indoor lorawan towards passively sensing human presence. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom) (pp. 1-11). IEEE. Download PDF / Download Artifact

Spielhofer, R., Thrash, T., Hayek, U. W., Grêt-Regamey, A., Salak, B., Grübel, J., & Schinazi, V. R. (2021). Physiological and behavioral reactions to renewable energy systems in various landscape types. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 135, 110410. Download PDF

Zhao, H., Thrash, T., Kapadia, M., Wolff, K., Hölscher, C., Helbing, D., & Schinazi, V. R. (2020). Assessing crowd management strategies for the 2010 Love Parade disaster using computer simulations and virtual reality. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 17(167), 20200116. Download PDF

Zhao, H., Thrash, T., Grossrieder, A., Kapadia, M., Moussaïd, M., Hölscher, C., & Schinazi, V. R. (2020). The interaction between map complexity and crowd movement on navigation decisions in virtual reality. Royal Society open science, 7(3), 191523. Download PDF

Kerr, J. I., Naegelin, M., Weibel, R. P., Ferrario, A., La Marca, R., von Wangenheim, F., ... & Schinazi, V. R. (2020). The effects of acute work stress and appraisal on psychobiological stress responses in a group office environment. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 121, 104837. Download PDF

Wampfler, R., Klingler, S., Solenthaler, B., Schinazi, V. R., & Gross, M. (2020). Affective State Prediction Based on Semi-Supervised Learning from Smartphone Touch Data. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13). Download PDF and link to video

Göbel, F., Kurzhals, K., Schinazi, V. R., Kiefer, P., & Raubal, M. (2020). Gaze-Adaptive Lenses for Feature-Rich Information Spaces. In ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (pp. 1-8). Download PDF

Göbel, F., Kurzhals, K., Raubal, M., & Schinazi, V. R. (2020). Gaze-Aware Mixed-Reality: Addressing Privacy Issues with Eye Tracking. In CHI 2020 Workshop on Exploring Potentially Abusive Ethical, Social and Political Implications of Mixed Reality in HCI. Download PDF

Dubey, R., Thrash, T., Kapadia, M., Hölscher, C., and Schinazi, V.R. (2019). Information theoretic model to simulate agent-signage interaction for wayfinding. Cognitive Computation, 10.1007/s12559-019-09689-1. Download PDF

Li, H., Thrash, T., Hölscher, C., & Schinazi, V.R. (2019). The effect of crowdedness on human wayfinding and locomotion in a multi-level virtual shopping mall. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 101320. Download PDF

Hackman, D. A., Robert, S. A., Grübel, J., Weibel, R. P., Anagnostou, E., Hölscher, C., & Schinazi, V. R. (2019). Neighborhood environments influence emotion and physiological reactivity. Scientific Reports 2019 9:1, 9(1), 9498. . Download PDF

Wampfler, R., Klingler, S., Solenthaler, B., Schinazi, V.R., Gross, M. (2019). Affective State Prediction in a Mobile Setting using Wearable Biometric Sensors and Stylus. In M. Desmarais, C. F. Lynch, A. Merceron, & R. Nkambou (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 198–207. Montreal, Canada. Download PDF

Kwok, C.K., Kiefer, P., Schinazi, V.R., Adams, B., & Raubal, M. (2019). Gaze-guided narratives: Adapting audio guide content to gaze in virtual and real environments. CHI 2019: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Download PDF

Weibel, R.P., Grübel, J., Zhao, H., Thrash, T., Meloni, D., Hölscher, C., & Schinazi, V.R. (2018). Virtual Reality Experiments with Physiological Measures. Journal of Visualized Experiments, (138), e58318. Download PDF

Zhao, H., Thrash, T., Wehrli, S., Hölscher, C., Kapadia, M., Grübel, J., Weibel, R.P., & Schinazi, V.R. (2018). A Networked Desktop Virtual Reality Setup for Decision Science and Navigation Experiments with Multiple Participants. Journal of Visualized Experiments, (138), e58155. Download PDF

Moussaid, M., Schinazi, V. R., Kapadia, M., & Thrash, T. (2018). Virtual Sensing and Virtual Reality: How New Technologies can Boost Research on Crowd Dynamics. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 5, 82. Download PDF

Grübel, J., Weibel, R., Jiang, M.H., Hölscher, C., Hackman, D.A., & Schinazi, V.R. (2017). EVE: A Framework for Experiments in Virtual Environments. In Barkowsky, T., Burte, H., Hölscher, C., Schultheis, H. (Eds), Spatial Cognition X: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10523, 159-176. Springer, Cham. Download PDF

Grübel, J., Thrash, T., Hölscher, C. & Schinazi, V.R. (2017). Evaluation of a conceptual framework for predicting navigation performance in virtual reality. PLOS ONE. Download PDF

Dubey, R. K., Kapadia, M., Thrash, T., Schinazi, V. R., & Hölscher, C. (2017). Towards an information-theoretic framework for quantifying wayfinding information in virtual environments. In Cognition and Artificial Intelligence for Human-Centered Design Workshop, 40-46. Download PDF

Kraemer, D. J. M., Schinazi, V. R., Cawkwell, P. B., Tekriwal, A., Epstein, R. A., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2016). Verbalizing, Visualizing, and Navigating: The Effect of Strategies on Encoding a Large-Scale Virtual Environment. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Download PDF

Schinazi, V.R., Thrash, T. & Chebat, D.R. (2016). Spatial navigation by congenitally blind individuals. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 7(1), 37-58. Download PDF

Pingel, T. & Schinazi, V.R. (2014). The Relationship between of scale and strategy in search-based wayfinding. Cartographic Perspectives. 77, 33-45. Download PDF

Thrash, T., Giannopoulos, I., & Schinazi, V.R. (2014). Bidimensional regression: Issues with interpolation. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Download PDF

Weisberg, S. M., Schinazi, V. R., Newcombe, N. S., Shipley, T. F., & Epstein, R.A. (2014). Variations in cognitive maps: Understanding individual differences in navigation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40(3), 669-682. Download PDF

Schinazi, V.R., Epstein, R.A., Nardi, D., Newcombe, N.S, & Shipley, T.F. (2013). Hippocampal size predicts rapid learning of a cognitive map in humans. Hippocampus, 23 (6), 515-528. Download PDF

Schinazi, V.R. & Epstein, R.A. (2010). Neural correlates of real-world route learning. NeuroImage, 53, 725-735. Download PDF

Schinazi V.R. 2007. Schinazi VR. Psychosocial implication of blindness and low vision. Centre for advanced Spatial Analysis. Paper Series 114-Feb 2007. ISSN 1467-1298, University College London. Download PDF

Schinazi, V.R. (2005). Spatial representation & low vision: Two studies on the content accuracy and utility of mental representations. International Congress Series, Elsevier BV, 1282, 1063-1067. Download PDF

Zacharias, J., & Schinazi, V.R. (2003). The impact of an entertainment retrofit on the performance of a shopping centre. Journal of Shopping Centre Research, 7 (2), 67-79. Download PDF

Book chapters

Schinazi, V.R., & Thrash, T. (2018). Neural correlates of geographic and spatial thinking. In Montello, D. (Ed.), Handbook of Behavioral and Cognitive Geography (pp.154-176). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. Download PDF

Martinez-Davila, R.L., Hodza, P., Kapadia, M. Perrone, S.T., Hölscher, C., & Schinazi, V.R. (2017). Telling Stories: Historical Narratives in Virtual Reality (pp 107-130). In Boyle, J. & Burgess, H. (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Digital Medieval Literature. Taylor & Francis Ltd. Download PDF

Hölscher, C., Schinazi, V. R., Thrash, T., & Zacharias, J. (2017). Theoretical and methodological challenges for cognitive research in the built environment. In Cairns. Stephen & D. Tunas (Eds.), Future Cities Laboratory: Indicia 1. Lars Müller Publishers. Download PDF

Schinazi, V.R. (2001). Two Sides of the Fence: A Comparative Analysis of Parc-Extension and Town of Mont-Royal. In Gauthier, L., Saxton, T., & Cohen, C (Eds.), Stories from Montreal: Ethnographic accounts of Life in North America’s francophone metropolis (pp. 43-60). Montreal, Canada: Trickster Publications. Download PDF

Government reports

Wissen Hayek, U., Spielhofer, R., Salak, B., Luthe, T., Steiger, U., Hunziker, M., Kienast, F., Thrash, T., Schinazi, V.R., & Grêt-Regamey, A. (2019). ENERGYSCAPE-Empfehlungen für eine Landschaftsentwicklung durch Anlagen erneuerbarer Energien in der Schweiz. Räumliche Potenziale, Konflikte, Präferenzen und Empfehlungen für die Praxis. ETH Zurich. Download PDF

Publications under review

Weisberg, S., Schinazi, V.R. , Ferrario, A., & Newcombe, N. (2021). Evaluating the Effects of a Programming Error on a Virtual Environment Measure of Spatial Navigation Behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology.