My research with select publications:

 

My research program is in what I call Cognitive Geography. More specifically, my research is in the realm of spatial cognition as it relates to types of spatial knowledge and their structures, geographic scale, and spatial concept development and understanding. Some very recent interests include work in volunteered geographic information (VGI), privacy and geospatial data, and the review of human subjects research. My research has explored:


The role that sources of spatial information play in cognition and learning:

Montello, D.R. and S.M. Freundschuh (2005) Cognition of geographic information. In McMaster, R. B and Usery, E. L. (Eds.), A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 61-91.

Freundschuh, S.M. and M.J. Egenhofer (1998) Human Conceptions of Spaces: Implications for Geographic Information Systems, Transactions in GIS, 2:4:361-375.

Montello, D.R. and S.M. Freundschuh (1995) Sources of Spatial Knowledge and Their Implications for GIS: An Introduction, Geographical Systems, Issue on Spatial Cognitive Models, 2, 169-176.


The development of spatial concept understanding in different sized spaces:

Freundschuh, S.M. and M. Blades (2012) The Cognitive Development of the Spatial Concepts NEXT, NEAR, AWAY and FAR, In M. Raubal, A. Frank and D. Mark (Eds.) Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space New Perspectives on Geographic Information Research, Springer, pp. 43-62.

Freundschuh, S.M. (2000) Chapter 8: Macro and Micro-scale Environments. In R. Kithin and S.M. Freundschuh (Eds) Cognitive Mapping: Past, Present and Future, Routledge. 125-146.

Freundschuh, S.M. (1998) The Relationship Between Geographic Scale, Distance, and Time as Expressed in Natural Discourse. In Egenhofer, M. and R. Golledge (Eds.), Spatial and Temporal Reasoning in Geographic Information Systems, Oxford University Press, 131-142.


The use of novel map representations to perform spatial tasks:

Freundschuh, S.M. and D. Mercer (1995) Spatial Cognitive Representations of Story Worlds Acquired From Maps and Narrative, Geographical Systems, 2, 217-233.

Freundschuh, S.M. (1992) Is there a relationship between spatial cognition and environmental patterns? In Frank, A.U., Campari, I., and Formentini, U. (Eds.), Theories and Methods of Spatio-Temporal Reasoning in Geographic Space, Springer-Verlag: New York, 288-304.

Freundschuh, S.M., D.M. Mark, S. Gopal, M. Gould and H. Couclelis (1990) Verbal Directions for Wayfinding: Implications for Navigation and Geographic Information and Analysis Systems. Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, Zurich, Switzerland, 478-487.

Freundschuh, S.M., D.M. Mark, S. Gopal, M. Gould and H. Couclelis (1990) Verbal Directions for Wayfinding: Implications for Navigation and Geographic Information and Analysis Systems. Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, Zurich, Switzerland, 478-487.


Uncertainty in volunteer geographic information:

Camponovo, M. and S.M. Freundschuh (2014) Assessing Uncertainty in VGI for Emergency Response. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2014.950332.


Legal and ethical issues in privacy and geospatial data:

Zhang, S., S.M. Freundschuh, K. Lenzer and P.A. Zandbergen (2015) The Location Swapping Method for Geomasking.

     Cartography and Geographic Information Science. Published online Oct 15.

     http://cx.doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2015.1095655

Carr, J., S. Vallor, S. Freundschuh, W. Gannon and P. Zandbergen (2014) Hitting the moving target: the challenges of creating a dynamic curriculum addressing the ethical dimensions of geospatial data. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 38(4): 444-454. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2014.936313


IRB issues impacting research in the social sciences:

Freundschuh, S.M. (2012)  Institutional Review for Research in the Social Sciences from the Federal Perspective, Professional Geographer, Focus Section titled Protecting Human Subjects Across the Geographic Research Process, 64(1) (available online August 2, 2011).


Books Edited

Freundschuh, S.M. (Ed.) (forthcoming) Proceedings AutoCarto 2016, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A., September 14-16, 2016.

Kitchin, R. and S.M. Freundschuh, (Eds.) (2015) Cognitive Mapping: Past, Present and Future, Taylor and Francis

     (reprinted in paperback), 280 pp. ISBN 0415757800

Fabrikant, S.I., M. Raubal, M. Bertolotto, C. Davies, S. Freundschuh, and S. Bell (Eds.). (2015) Proceedings, Conference on

     Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2015), Santa Fe, NM, USA, Oct.

Kitchin, R. and S. M. Freundschuh (Eds.) (2000) Cognitive Mapping: Past, Present and Future, Routledge, 266 pp.