Wayfinding behavior and spatial knowledge constitute the two main topics of spatial cognition research with respect to a large-scale or environmental space, that is, a space which is not perceivable from one single vantage point (e.g., Canter & Craig, 1981). Unfortunately, these two aspects of spatial cognition (i.e., wayfinding behavior and spatial knowledge) have been addressed separately mos...

Continuous spatial and temporal information is cognitively segmented into meaningful units that we refer to here as conceptual primitives; since we are focusing on routes in street networks, we define these primitives more specifically as wayfinding choremes. For the case of movement patterns in constraining environments such as driving around in street networks the wayfinding choremes are coup...

To contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of human wayfinding behaviors in complex buildings, we propose a framework that incorporates the impact of critical factors from both the environment and humans. The influence of the environment is summarized through the concept of environmental legibility, an integration of different space syntax methods that addresses visibility, connectivit...

This paper outlines the formal representation of the environment in which it is assumed that a wayfinding process has been occurred through a street network. Wayfinding is a process in which people navigate themselves from an origin to a destination by their common sense geospatial knowledge. Naı̈ve Geography is a field of study that investigates the body of knowledge that people have about the ...

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE To investigate and describe getting lost behaviour and wayfinding strategies among acquired brain injury (ABI) survivors and matched controls. RESEARCH DESIGN Matched control group comparison design. METHODS AND PROCEDURES This study compared wayfinding performance of 18 adults with acquired brain injury to controls matched for gender, age and education. Participants follo...

Complex products, such as buildings and other infrastructure, should aim to provide value to the customer over all stages of the product life-cycle. This paper considers some of the challenges associated with maximising customer value when designing, producing, implementing and maintaining a wayfinding system for complex hospital environments. The hypothesis of this paper is that the tri-partit...

The aim of this paper is to develop an architectural way of thinking about designing space in a virtual environment, in order to inform human wayfinding behaviour. Several generic objects and spatial elements that a virtual environment consists of are suggested, their spatial significance and formal characteristics are identified and the way that these affect human wayfinding behaviour is also ...

When simulating non-trivial scenarios of pedestrian movements it is necessary to model both the small-scale movements to a visible target (operational level) and the process to find and select routes leading to a possibly non-visible destination (tactical level). A huge number of different approaches modelling the operational level of pedestrian movements are already proposed. However, the majo...

A driving simulator was used to assess performance in younger and older drivers (M ages 18 and 71 years). The impacts of three challenges were assessed: visibility (clear day, fog), traffic density (low, high) and wayfinding (no challenge, drivers challenged to use signs and landmarks to find their destination). Performance was measured in terms of hazard RT, collisions, wayfinding errors (miss...

This experiment investigated the role of the source of information as well as the route complexity for wayfinding performance and wayfinding knowledge acquired. Participants had to find a complex and a simple route in an unknown city with figural instructions (map) and verbal instructions (directions). The participants reported transforming the map into verbal directions; therefore no general d...