Wayfinding Systems in Educational Environments

Ethics in Educational Environments

Social wayfinding in complex environments

Wayfinders in a group can be influenced by various factors, including other group members and environmental structure, but social wayfinding is an underexplored topic. This experiment investigated differences in wayfinding decisions between individuals and groups and their dependence on environmental structure. Participants navigated through a train station with or without market stalls, either...

Wayfinding: Embedding Knowledge in Hospital Environments

The traditional use of signs has failed to overcome the problem of wayfinding in hospitals. As wayfinding problems are clearly linked to healthcare outcomes there is need to find a more integrated approach to solving the problem. In this paper it is shown that it is possible to embed forms of knowledge that make it easier for people to find their way with little need for signs. Evidence from li...

Wayfinding Services for Open Educational Practices

To choose suitable resources for personal competence development in the vast amount of open educational resources is a challenging task for a learner. Starting with a needs analysis of lifelong learners and learning designers we introduce two wayfinding services that are currently researched and developed in the framework of the Integrated Project TENCompetence. Then we discuss the role of thes...

Wayfinding and Affine Representations of Urban Environments

While travelling in the city, our primary interest is often in finding the best route from one place to another. Since the wayfinding process is a purposive, directed, and motivated activity (Golledge 1999), the shortest route is not necessarily the best one. If an origin and a destination are not directly connected by a continuous path, wayfinding may include search and exploration actions for...