People find their way through cluttered environments with ease and without injury. How do they do it? Two approaches to wayfinding are considered: Differential motion parallax (DMP) is a retinal motion invariant of near and far objects moving against fixation; the information in optical flow (IOF) is a radial pattern of vectors, relying on decomposition of retinal flow. Evidence is presented th...

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...

Empirical relations among age, general spatial ability as assessed by psychometric tests, wayfinding-related skills as assessed by experimental tasks in the laboratory, environmental layout learning as assessed in a field experiment, and wayfinding behavior as observed in a field experiment were modeled in a study involving 120 younger and 120 older adults. The best-fitting model showed that ag...

Wayfinding at night in nature is challenging due to limited lighting and a low number of clearly identifiable landmarks. However, several activities in nature involve wayfinding at night, such as rescue services or hiking, but only a few human navigation studies have addressed these conditions. In the present study, we investigate the effects of night on the perception and recall of landmarks a...

Wayfinding uses a range of skills including recalling information from memory, interpreting the environment, and taking decisions based on this information. Mental health conditions such as anxiety or depression can adversely affect these skills. A significant proportion population has one more mental conditions. This paper discusses issues that people face when wayfinding. It is descriptive st...

References to objects in our physical environment are common especially in language about wayfinding. Advanced wayfinding systems that interact with the pedestrian by means of (spoken) natural language therefore need to be able to resolve references given by pedestrians (i.e. understand what entity the pedestrian is referring to). The contribution of this paper is a probabilistic approach to re...

Despite the recent advances in mobile tourism systems, most of the wayfinding applications have still to deal with some problems: a huge amount of tourist information to manage, guidance for indoor and outdoor environments, and the need of users to have programming knowledge about many mobile phone platforms. In this study, we propose the GAT platform to overcome these problems. In GAT, users a...

In this paper we tackle the problem of generating natural route descriptions on the basis of input obtained from a commercially available wayfinding system. We adopt a standard pipelined natural language generation architecture, and focus in particular on the role of the generation subtasks of aggregation and referring expression generation in producing fluent output. Through examples we demons...

Wayfinding diperlukan perannya dalam peletakkan, pengarah, penuntun, dan titik keputusan sehingga perencanaan proses pelaksanaannya harus terintegrasi dengan tepat. Keterbacaan menjadi kunci keberhasilan bagaimana orang mampu untuk memahami wayfinding. Oleh sebab pentingnya wayfinding pergerakan manusia, maka penelitian ini mengangkat kasus di Jakarta International Stadium (JIS) yang bersifat s...