Wayfinding Through Orientation

Orientation And Wayfinding: A Review

Spatial orientation can take place in three separate scales: scenes within an individual's visual field, surrounds including information to the front, side, and rear, and neighborhoods, that contain points not visible from the current location. When asked to orient in a surround people are especially sensitive to information to their fronts and backs. However if the surround has been experience...

Spatial Orientation, Wayfinding, and Representation

Cyber Crumbs: Indoor Orientation and Wayfinding Cyber Crumbs: An Indoor Orientation and Wayfinding Infrastructure

An infrastructure comprised of prototype Cyber Crumbs was developed and evaluated in an NIH SBIR Phase 1 study. The goal was to develop a means of “salting” indoor structures with a network of inexpensive information “crumbs” to assist persons in easily orientating to indoor structures and efficiently navigating through them to desired locations. Infra-Red (IR) communications between Crumbs and...

Wayfinding and Orientation by the Visually Impaired

Finding one's way around a large, complex building like a hospital is a difficult taskat best. Add in the stress that most hospital patients and visitors experience and thetask becomes even more arduous. A decision as basic as how floors are numbered canhave important ramifications on orientation and wayfinding. A study was designed todiscover which of several feasible floor num...

Spatial Orientation and Wayfinding in Large-Scale Virtual Spaces