Dr. habil. Rul von Stülpnagel

	room:  03-015 phone: +49 761 203 4944 fax: +49 761 203 4938 e-mail: rul.von.stuelpnagel@cognition.uni-freiburg.de Sprechstunde MI, 10-12h	Center for Cognitive Science Hebelstraße 10 D-79104 Freiburg, Germany

Research Interests and publications

I am interested in various aspects of human spatial cognition. My main areas of interest are:

Risk perception during urban cycling

My main research interest throughout the last years is concerned with risk perception during urban cycling, and how this perception is linked to the spatial configuration of the local environment.

Key publications

• von Stülpnagel, R. & Rintelen, H. (2024). A matter of space and perspective – Cyclists’, car drivers’, and pedestrians’ assumptions about subjective safety in shared traffic situations. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2023.103941

• von Stülpnagel, R., Hologa, R., & Riach, N. (2022). Cars overtaking cyclists on different road types – Subjective expectations are not aligned with objective passing distances. Transportation Research Part F: Psychology and Behaviour, 89, 334-346. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2022.07.005
• von Stülpnagel, R. & Binnig, N. (2022). How safe do you feel? - A large-scale survey concerning the subjective safety associated with different kinds of cycling lanes. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2022.106577
• von Stülpnagel, R. (2020). Gaze behavior during urban cycling: Effects of subjective risk perception and vista space properties. Transportation Research Part F: Psychology and Behaviour, 75, 222-238. doi: 10.1016/j.trf.2020.10.007

• von Stülpnagel, R. & Lucas, J. (2020). Crash risk and subjective risk perception during urban cycling: Evidence for congruent and incongruent sources. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 142, 105584.

Landmarks in human orientation and wayfinding

I am analyzing the salience of landmarks with a focus on their structural salience (as compared to their visual and semantic salience) with a wide range of methods encompassing sketch map analyses, mobile eye tracking, and space syntax.

Key publications

• Albrecht, R., & von Stülpnagel, R. (2021). Taking the right (or left?) turn: effects of landmark salience on the retrieval of route directions. Spatial Cognition & Computation, 21(4). doi: 10.1080/13875868.2021.1987438

• Wenczel, F., Hepperle, L., & von Stülpnagel, R. (2017). Gaze Behavior during Incidental and Intentional Route Learning and Route Retrieval in Outdoor Navigation. Spatial Cognition & Computation, 17(1-2), 121-142. doi: 10.1080/13875868.2016.1226838

Modeling of neighbourhood spaces

As part of the SoNaTe project, I am currently trying to the determine the space and shape of what people consider as their neighorhood. 

Key publications

• von Stülpnagel, R., Findler, F., & Brand, D. (2022). Census-Based Variables Are Informative about Subjective Neighborhood Relations, but Only When Adjusted for Residents’ Neighborhood Conceptions. Sustainability, 14(8), 4434.
• von Stülpnagel, R., Brand, D., & Seemann, A. K. (2019). Your neighbourhood is not a circle, and you are not its centre. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 101349.

For more information on my research projects, see here.

For a full list of my publications, click here or see my Google Scholar profile.

Grants

• 07/2024-12/2026 RULES: Regelverstöße im Radverkehr – Ursachenforschung und Entwicklung

  von Empfehlungen für eine sichere Verkehrsinfrastruktur (Principal investigator of project with Prof. Anja Huemer and Prof. Axel Leonhardt, UniBw München, funded by BALM)

• 01/2019-12/2020 AssistAll - Konzeption und Evaluation eines mobilen Audio-Assistenten zur Indoor-Orientierung. (Shared project with IMTEC of Freiburg University and Contagt GmbH; funded by BMBF)
• 11/2015-11/2020  SoNaTe - Soziale Nachbarschaft und Technik. (Principal investigator of sub-project together with PD Dr. Marco Ragni, Freiburg University; funded by BMBF)
• 06/2015-11/2015: Raumkonfiguration als Ursache subjektiver Gefährdung bei Radfahrern im Straßenverkehr: Eine Space Syntax Analyse von Crowdsourcing-Daten in der Münchner Innenstadt. (Grant by Innovationsfonds Forschung 2015/1, Freiburg University)