Peer-reviewed articles and conference proceedings
Tian, N., Colombo, G., & Schinazi, V.R. (2025). From Play to Detection: Mini-SPACE as a Serious Game for Unsupervised Cognitive Impairment Screening. arXiv:2511.12068. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.12068
Hoffman, M., Thrash, T., Hölscher, C., Kapadia, M., & Schinazi, V. R. (2025). Social and spatial predictors of collective search behaviors. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 19086. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-02460-7
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. (2025). Lower aperiodic EEG activity is associated with reduced verbal fluency performance across adulthood. Neurobiology of Aging, 151, 29-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2025.03.013
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, 104(1), 95-105. https://doi.org/10.1177/13872877251314138
Colombo, G., Minta, K., Taylor, W. R., Grübel, J., Chong, E., Chong, J. R., Lai, M. K., Chen, C. P., & Schinazi, V. R. (2025). Spatial navigation as a digital marker for clinically differentiating cognitive impairment severity. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.05.25329079
McKeown, D. J., Angus, D. J., Moustafa, A. A., & Schinazi, V. R. (2025). Hypoxia and cognitive ability in humans: A systematic review and meta-analysis. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.15.654374
Naegelin, M., Weibel, R. P., Kerr, J. I., von Wangenheim, F., Schinazi, V. R., La Marca, R., Hoelscher, C., Nater, U. M., & Ferrario, A. (2025). One does not fit all: Detecting work-related stress from mouse, keyboard, and cardiac data in the field. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.02.25332538
Minta, K., Colombo, G., Tee, M., Low, M., Grübel, J., Wiener, J., Chen, C.P., Hilal., & Schinazi, V. R. (2024). SPACE: A novel digital tool for assessing hippocampal structural integrity in older adults. Research Square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-5484040/v1
Colombo, G., Minta, K., Thrash, T., Grübel, J., Wiener, J., Avraamides, M., Hölscher, C., & Schinazi, V. R. (2024). Beyond traditional assessments of cognitive impairment: Exploring the potential of spatial navigation tasks. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.12.24315402
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2024.108349
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. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-79172-x
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. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14478
MMcKeown, 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. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad482
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. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-43241-4
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. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2023.1171306
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2023.101992
Kerr, J. I., Weibel, R. P., Naegelin, M., Ferrario, A., Schinazi, V. R., La Marca, R., Hölscher, 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. https://doi.org/10.1186/s44247-023-00042-z
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2023.103989
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107607
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: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 49(4), 575. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001146
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2023.104299
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. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2022.558
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. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems (pp. 1-14). https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3501835
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 supported by centralized and decentralized visual guidance systems. Safety Science, 145, 105451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105451
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmcj.2022.101640
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. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14133095
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. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07924-8
Macnamara, A., Schinazi, V. R., Chen, C., Coussens, S., & Loetscher, T. (2021). Vision impairments reduce cognitive test performance. Nature Aging, 1(11), 975-976. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-021-00135-2
Macnamara, A., Chen, C., Schinazi, V. R., Saredakis, D., & Loetscher, T. (2021). Simulating Macular degeneration to investigate activities of daily living: A systematic review. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15, 663062. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.663062
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 Proceedings of the 5th Media Architecture Biennale Conference (pp. 215-220). https://doi.org/10.1145/3469410.3469435
Grübel, J., Thrash, T., Hélal, D., Sumner, R. W., Hölscher, C., & Schinazi, V. R. (2021). The feasibility of dense indoor LoRaWAN towards passively sensing human presence. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (pp. 1-11). https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOM50583.2021.9439137
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2020.110410
Dubey, R. K., Thrash, T., Kapadia, M., Hoelscher, C., & Schinazi, V. R. (2021). Information-theoretic model to simulate agent-signage interaction for wayfinding. Cognitive Computation, 13(1), 189-206. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-019-09689-1
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. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.0116
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. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191523
Kerr, J. I., Naegelin, M., Weibel, R. P., Ferrario, A., La Marca, R., von Wangenheim, F., Hoelscher, C., & Schinazi, V. R. (2020). The effects of acute work stress and appraisal on psychobiological stress responses in a group office environment. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 121, 104837. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2020.104837
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). https://doi.org/10.1145/3379155.3391323
Göbel, F., Kurzhals, K., Raubal, M., & Schinazi, V. R. (2020). Gaze-aware mixed-reality: Addressing privacy issues with eye tracking. In CHI 2020: Workshop 37 on Exploring Potentially Abusive Ethical, Social and Political Implications of Mixed Reality in HCI (pp. 2-7). https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000409514
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). https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376504
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, 65, 101320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.101320
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, 9(1), 9498. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-45876-8
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 Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13). https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376504
Kwok, T. 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. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-12). https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300721
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. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2018.00082
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 (JoVE), 138, e58318. https://doi.org/10.3791/58318
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. https://doi.org/10.3791/58155
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 Spatial Cognition X: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 10523, 159-176. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68189-4_10
Grübel, J., Thrash, T., Hölscher, C. & Schinazi, V. R. (2017). Evaluation of a conceptual framework for predicting navigation performance in virtual reality. PloS One, 12(9), e0184682. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184682
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 (pp. 40-46). https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2099/paper7.pdf
Kraemer, D. J., 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, 43(4), 611. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000314
Schinazi, V. R., Thrash, T. & Chebat, D. R. (2016). Spatial navigation by congenitally blind individuals. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 7(1), 37-58. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1375
Pingel, T. & Schinazi, V. R. (2014). The Relationship between scale and strategy in search-based wayfinding. Cartographic Perspectives. 77, 33-45. https://doi.org/10.14714/CP77.1232
Thrash, T., Giannopoulos, I., & Schinazi, V. R. (2014). Bidimensional regression: Issues with interpolation. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1598-1603). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9955s7zp
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. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0035261
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. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.22111
Schinazi, V. R. & Epstein, R. A. (2010). Neural correlates of real-world route learning. NeuroImage, 53, 725-735. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.06.065
Schinazi, V. R. (2005). Spatial representation & low vision: Two studies on the content accuracy and utility of mental representations. In International Congress Series (pp. 1063-1067). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ics.2005.05.163
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. https://jrdelisle.com/JSCR/IndArticles/Zacharias_N103.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. (In press). 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. (in press). From fundamental science to the clinic (and back again): A translational framework for navigation and aging. 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, 1-75. ETH Zürich. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000383049
Schinazi, V. R., & Thrash, T. (2018). Neural correlates of geographic and spatial thinking. In Handbook of Behavioral and Cognitive Geography, 154-176. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.4337/9781784717544.00016
Martinez-Davila, R. L., Hodza, P., Kapadia, M., Perrone, S. T., Hölscher, C., & Schinazi, V. R. (2017). Telling stories: Historical narratives in virtual reality. In Boyle, J. & Burgess, H. (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Digital Medieval Literature, 107-130. Taylor & Francis Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315696041
Hoelscher, 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 01, 133-140. Lars Muller Publishers.
Schinazi, V. R. (2001). Two Sides of the Fence: A Comparative Analysis Of Parc-Extension and Town of Mont-Royal. In L. Gauthier, T. Saxton, & C. Cohen (Eds.), Stories from Montreal: Ethnographic Accounts of Life in North America’s Francophone Metropolis (pp. 43-60). Trickster Publications.