Asking other people the way has always been a widespread social wayfinding technique. In recent years wayfinding in unknown spatial environments has increasingly been supported by electronic navigation assistants. However, the social aspects of wayfinding, such as using other peoples’ experiences, have widely been ignored in the context of electronic navigation systems. In electronic environmen...

A major challenge faced by the blind and visually impaired population is that of wayfinding – the ability of a person to find his or her way to a given destination. We propose a new wayfinding aid based on a camera cell phone, which is held by the user to find and read aloud specially designed machine-readable signs in the environment (labeling locations such as offices and restrooms). Our main...

In this study, we compared navigation through a large, complex, public building a) without any map, b) with a printed map, or c) with a digital map. Participants looked for five different destinations while thinking aloud, filled out questionnaires, and answered open questions about the wayfinding task and about the building and the maps. A content analysis was used in order to identify key fac...

A novel wayfinding system is presented with an aim to increase workplace and life independence for cognitive-impaired patients such as people with traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy, mental retardation, schizophrenia, !"#$%&'()*+),-.$#*.)!.)/$01$*.$2!.)#$3"$ geo-coded QR codes which embed the coordinate (x, y, floor) and social computing that helps shorten the learning curve for the people ...

Wayfinding in indoor spaces, as well as transition between outdoor and indoor spaces (O/I spaces), is a common but sometimes difficult and tedious process in everyday life. This is particularly evident for indoor travel through complex buildings where traditional external aids, such as signs or You-Are-Here maps, are often absent or inadequate (Moeser et al., 1988). In these instances, navigato...

This poster argues for an agent based approach to tackle difficulties users usually experience when navigating in large scale 3D computer virtual environments (CVEs). This view is examined from two different perspectives namely that of solitary and collaborative wayfinding.

In this paper we describe our approach to the challenges that we have experienced in the ongoing design of a wayfinding system for individuals with cognitive impairment. We outline some of the important lessons we have learned.

In a series of two experiments we investigated the influence of an allocentric and egocentric perspective on landmarkbased wayfinding and finding the according return path. Participants had to learn a route consisting of twelve intersections with four different verbal landmarks at each intersection. They were asked to memorize at least one of the landmarks for providing a route description afte...

An area of interest that remains to be more thoroughly investigated is that of human navigation and wayfinding in VR. This study attempted to examine the effect of gender on VR navigation and wayfinding. A tool named Virtual Reality Navigation Tool (VRNT) was designed to conduct experiments for this research. Four experiments were conducted to track navigational patterns employed by the subject...