Professor

2B01 IS Building
412-624-9434

shirtle@sis.pitt.edu
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. University of Michigan

Research Interests:
Spatial information; classification; cognitive science; geographic information systems; hypertext and multimedia systems; visualization; neural networks.

Recent Publications:

Hirtle, S.C. 2006. Landmarks for Navigation in Humans and Robots. In Spatial Mapping Approaches in Robotic and Natural Mapping Systems, eds. M.E. Jefferies and W.K. Yeap. New York: Springer.

Hirtle, S.C. Forthcoming 2006. Navigation in Electronic Environments. In Applied Spatial Cognition, ed. G. Allen. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Hirtle, S.C. Forthcoming 2006. Information Design for the Support of Navigation. In Complex Artificial Environments, ed. J. Portugali. Berlin: Springer.

Hirtle, S.C., Mark, D.M., and Egenhofer, M. 2004. Ontological Foundations for Geographic Information Science. In Research Challenges in Geographic Sciences, eds. R.B. McMaster and L. Usery. Boca Roton, FL: CRC Press.