CONCLUSIONS
- Human subjects position the LO independent of its shape.
- When positioning the LO near to the RO, human subjects
are not affected by boundary effects. However if the positioning is to
be done far from the RO boundary effects become prominent.
- The way human subjects position the LO depends on size
of the RO, boundary effects, scale effects.
- When combining orthogonal prepositions human subjects
tend to assign equal weightage to each preposition.
- When asked to position the LO between two RO's human
subjects position the LO at the centre of the available space between the
two RO's.
- We could not completely show the independence of positioning
of the LO w.r.t. orientation of LO.
- We could not draw conclusive results for the effect of
size of LO for the positioning. However, the data hints at an effect of
size of LO on positioning.
- One question as yet unanswered is whether the centre
of a polygon should be defined as the centroid or the mean of its maximum
and minimum coordinates. We think that the answer to this question depends
on the shape of the polygon and is thus difficult to characterise.
- In case of combination of orthogonal prepositions is
the positioning done with respect to the boundary of the RO or the centre
of the RO ?
For further details, see the results and analyses for
the individual parameters.
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