Peer-reviewed publications
Hoffman, M., Thrash, T., Hölscher, C., Kapadia, M., & Schinazi, V. R. (under review). Social and spatial predictors of collective search behaviours. Scientific Reports.
Naegelin, M., Weibel, R. P., Kerr, J. I., Schinazi, V. R., La Marca, R., Hölscher, C., Nater, U., & Ferrario, A. (under review). Detecting work-related stress from mouse, keyboard and cardiac data in the field. Computers in Biology and Medicine.
Tee, M., Padrela, B. E., Dupeyron, M., Huang, J., Low, M., Konstandin, S., Eickel, K., Günther, M., Minta, K., Schinazi, V. R., Colombo, G., Petr, J., Mutsaerts, H. J., & Hilal, S. (2025). Associations between potential risk factors and blood-brain barrier water permeability in middle-aged and older adults. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease: JAD, 13872877251314138. Download PDF
Minta, K., Colombo, G., Tee, M., Low, M., Grübel, J., Wiener, J., Chen, C.P., Hilal, S., & Schinazi, V. R. (2024). SPACE: A novel digital tool for assessing hippocampal structural integrity in older adults. Research Square doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-5484040/v1. Download PDF
Colombo, G., Minta, K., Thrash, T., Grübel, J., Wiener, J.M., Avraamides, M., Hölscher, C., & Schinazi, V. R. (2024). Beyond traditional assessments of cognitive impairment: Exploring the potential of spatial navigation tasks. medRxiv doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.12.24315402. Download PDF
Colombo, G., Minta, K., Grübel, J., Tai, W. L. E., Hölscher, C., & Schinazi, V. R. (2024). Detecting cognitive impairment through an age-friendly serious game: The development and usability of the Spatial Performance Assessment for Cognitive Evaluation (SPACE). Computers in Human Behavior, 160, 108349. Download PDF
Kwok, T. C., Kiefer, P., Schinazi, V. R., Hoelscher, C., & Raubal, M. (2024). Gaze-based detection of mind wandering during audio-guided panorama viewing. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 27955. Download PDF
McKeown, D. J., Roberts, E., Finley, A. J., Kelley, N. J., Keage, H. A., Schinazi, V. R., Baumann, O., Moustafa, A. A., & Angus, D.J. (2024). Lower aperiodic activity is associated with reduced verbal fluency performance across adulthood. bioRxiv doi:10.1101/2024.08.13.607827. Download PDF
McKeown, D. J., Jones, M., Pihl, C., Finley, A. J., Kelley, N., Baumann, O., Schinazi, V. R., Moustafa, A. A., Cavanagh, J. F., & Angus, D.J. (2024). Medication‐invariant resting aperiodic and periodic neural activity in Parkinson's disease. Psychophysiology, 61(4), e14478. Download PDF
McKeown, D. J., Finley, A. J., Kelley, N. J., Cavanagh, J. F., Keage, H. A., Baumann, O., Schinazi, V. R., Moustafa, A. A., & Angus, D.J. (2024). Test-retest reliability of spectral parameterization by 1/f characterization using SpecParam. Cerebral Cortex, 34(1), bhad482. Download PDF
Schinazi, V. R., Meloni, D., Grübel, J., Angus, D. J., Baumann, O., Weibel, R. P., Jeszenszky, P., Hölscher, C., & Thrash, T. (2023). Motivation moderates gender differences in navigation performance. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 15995. Download PDF
Minta, K., Colombo, G., Taylor, W. R., & Schinazi, V. R. (2023). Differences in fall-related characteristics across cognitive disorders. Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 15, 1171306. Download PDF
Zhao, H., Frese, L., Venzin, C., Kaszás, D., Weibel, R. P., Hölscher, C., Schinazi, V. R., & Thrash, T. (2023). The time course of spatial knowledge acquisition for different digital navigation aids. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 103, 101992. Download PDF
Kerr, J. I., Weibel, R. P., Naegelin, M., Ferrario, A., Schinazi, V. R., La Marca, R., Hoelscher, C., Nater, U. M., & von Wangenheim, F. (2023). The effectiveness and user experience of a biofeedback intervention program for stress management supported by virtual reality and mobile technology: a randomized controlled study. BMC Digital Health, 1(1), 42. Download PDF
Lutnyk, L., Rudi, D., Schinazi, V. R., Kiefer, P., & Raubal, M. (2023). The effect of flight phase on electrodermal activity and gaze behavior: A simulator study. Applied Ergonomics, 109, 103989. Download PDF
Weibel, R. P., Kerr, J. I., Naegelin, M., Ferrario, A., Schinazi, V. R., La Marca, R., Hoelscher, C., Nater, U. M., & von Wangenheim, F. (2023). Virtual reality-supported biofeedback for stress management: Beneficial effects on heart rate variability and user experience. Computers in Human Behavior, 141, 107607. Download PDF
Weisberg, S. M., Schinazi, V. R., Ferrario, A., & Newcombe, N. S. (2023). Evaluating the effects of a programming error on a virtual environment measure of spatial navigation behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: LMC, 49(4), 575. Download PDF
Naegelin, M., Weibel, R. P., Kerr, J. I., Schinazi, V. R., La Marca, R., von Wangenheim, F., Hoelscher, C., & Ferrario, A. (2023). An interpretable machine learning approach to multimodal stress detection in a simulated office environment. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 139, 104299. Download PDF
Macnamara, A., Coussens, S., Chen, C., Schinazi, V. R., & Loetscher, T. (2022). The psychological impact of instrumental activities of daily living on people with simulated age-related macular degeneration. BJPsych Open, 8(5), e152. Download PDF
Wampfler, R., Klingler, S., Solenthaler, B., Schinazi, V. R., Gross, M., & Holz, C. (2022). Affective state prediction from smartphone touch and sensor data in the wild. Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1-14. Download PDF
Zhao, H., Schwabe, A., Schläfli, F., Thrash, T., Aguilar, L., Dubey, R. K., Karjalainen, J., Hölscher, C., Helbing, D., & Schinazi, V. R. (2022). Fire evacuation is supported by centralized and decentralized visual guidance systems. Safety science, 145, 105451. Download PDF
Grübel, J., Thrash, T., Aguilar, L., Gath-Morad, M., Hélal, D., Sumner, R. W., Hölscher, C., & Schinazi, V. R. (2022). Dense indoor sensor networks: Towards passively sensing human presence with LoRaWAN. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 84, 101640. Download PDF
Grübel, J., Thrash, T., Aguilar, L., Gath-Morad, M., Chatain, J., Sumner, R. W., Hölscher, C., & Schinazi, V. R. (2022). The hitchhiker’s guide to fused twins: A review of access to digital twins in situ in smart cities. Remote Sensing, 14(13), 3095. Download PDF
Macnamara, A., Schinazi, V. R., Chen, C., Coussens, S., & Loetscher, T. (2022). The effect of age-related macular degeneration on cognitive test performance. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 4033. 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. IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, 1-11. 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
Dubey, R., Thrash, T., Kapadia, M., Hölscher, C., & Schinazi, V. R. (2019). Information theoretic model to simulate agent-signage interaction for wayfinding. Cognitive Computation, 10.1007/s12559-019-09689-1. 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
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
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 Download video
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
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
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
Grübel, J., Weibel, R. P., 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. (2017). 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 and government reports
Schinazi, V.R., Colombo, C., Minta, K. Designing effective clinical tools for measuring navigation deficits associated with cognitive impairment: Insights from human-computer interaction research. (under review). In Cheng, K., Jeffrey, K., Lupp, J., Newcombe, N., Wolbers, T. (Eds.), Navigation Research: Mapping the Future. MIT Press.
Newton, C., Barnes, C. A., Flanagin, V. L., Gillespie, A. K., Hornberger, M., Moffat, S., Schinazi, V. R., Segen, V., Wiener, J., Weisberg, S. M., & Wolbers, T. (under review). From fundamental science to the clinic (and back again). In K. Cheng, K. Jeffrey, J. Lupp, N. Newcombe, & T. Wolbers (Eds.), Navigation research: Mapping the future. MIT Press.
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
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