Abstract
Considering citizens’ perceptions of their living environment is very helpful in making the right decisions for city planners who intend to build a sustainable society. Mental map analyses are widely used in understanding the level of perception of individuals regarding the surrounding environment. The present study introduces Aram Mental Map Analyzer (AMMA), an open-source program, which allows researchers to use special features and new analytical methods to receive outputs in numerical data and analytical maps with greater accuracy and speed. AMMA performance is contingent upon two principles of accuracy and complexity, the accuracy of the program is measured by Accuracy Placed Landmarks (APL) and General Orientation (GO), which respectively analyses the landmark placement accuracy and the main route mapping accuracy. Also, the complexity section is examined through two analyses Cell Percentage (CP) and General Structure (GS), which calculates the complexity of citizens’ perception of space based on the criteria derived from previous studies. AMMA examines all the dimensions and features of the graphic maps and its outputs have a wide range of valid and differentiated information, which is tailored to the research and information subject matter that is required.
Highlights
Involving people in urban projects and the use of citizen’s views are the key factors for sustainable urban society development [1,2,3]
Qualitative methods are mostly based on the logic and conclusions of researchers and empirical knowledge, considering that the purpose of this research is based on a software and computational solution, quantitative methods are implemented in this research
In the context of analysing mental maps in a computational manner, in research conducted by Trowbridge et al [73], the Georeferencing ArcGIS tool was used to evaluate the accuracy of the mental maps based on the metric distances of the main map, which evaluated the accuracy of landmark locations by overlapping the mental map with the city’s main map
Summary
Involving people in urban projects and the use of citizen’s views are the key factors for sustainable urban society development [1,2,3]. When studying the mentality and perception of people with regard to city and urban spaces, one of the common methods is synchronizing their conceptual mapping of the city into a map that provides a tangible model of the city. These maps were first introduced by Tolman as cognitive maps in 1948 [12] and express the subjective and abstract representations of the individual from the environment [13]. All of the mentioned studies refer to the same two-dimensional maps derived from the perception of individuals of their surroundings
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