Examining Eye-Fixations during Wayfinding in Unfamiliar Indoor Environments

Ghamari, Hessam

doi:10.18848/2325-1379/cgp/v12i02/15-33

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“…They found that participants used the following elements as sources of information (ordered from highest to lowest based on frequency of use): signs, architectural features (i.e., view to outside and multilevel interior view from atrium), maps, interior elements (e.g., artwork, display boards, and information counters), logical clusters of functions, pairings of interior elements, structural elements, and furniture. In another study, Ghamari and Pati (2018) analyzed eye-fixation data obtained during wayfinding and found that signs, architectural features, maps, and interior artifacts most frequently attracted the attention of participants, in conformity with Pati et al (2015) study findings.…”

Section: The Relationship Between Other Environmental Factors and Logsupporting

confidence: 55%

“…Other environmental factorsinformation pick-up Pati et al, 2015;Ghamari and Pati, 2018 are supported by the results of Kirasic (2000), which suggest that older adults acquire less spatial knowledge (i.e., knowledge of landmarks, routes, distances, and directions). Studies also suggest that older adults are slower than younger adults in acquiring spatial knowledge (Kirasic, 1991) and in performing spatial tasks (Davis et al, 2008).…”

Section: The Relationship Between Spatial Memories and Agementioning

confidence: 80%

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Wayfinding in Interior Environments: An Integrative Review

2020

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Wayfinding is an issue in complex facilities-including hospitals, airports, and office buildings-and wayfinding difficulties are associated with negative psychological and physiological consequences. In addition, since finding one's way in a building is a prerequisite for successfully using that building, wayfinding has attracted the attention of scholars and decision makers. The goal of this article is to review and synthesize the published literature on wayfinding in interior environments. A systematic search was conducted of four databases: PsychINFO, JSTOR, ProQuest, and EBSCO. A hand search was also conducted. From the initial harvest of 804 records, a total of 84 records met the inclusion criteria for full review. After several rounds of review, four broad domains were identified: (1) wayfinding cognition, (2) wayfinding behavior, (3) individual and group differences, and (4) environmental factors. These domains are used as a framework to organize the findings, and the review shows that the sub-domains most thoroughly addressed in the literature are spatial memories, floor plan configuration, landmarks, signs, and maps. This review can deepen the field's understanding of factors that contribute to interior wayfinding and can serve as a resource for decision makers and designers.

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Section: The Relationship Between Other Environmental Factors and Logsupporting

confidence: 55%

Section: The Relationship Between Spatial Memories and Agementioning

confidence: 80%

Wayfinding in Interior Environments: An Integrative Review

2020

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“…“Eye-tracking” and “virtual reality” also have been paid attention to in wayfinding in interior environments literature. Ghamari and Pati [ 73 ] investigated eye fixations during wayfinding in unfamiliar indoor environments and found that identifying informative signs and architectural features is the most influential visual environmental attribute of wayfinding. Livingstone-Lee et al [ 74 ] conducted an eye-tracking study to objectively investigate the selection of navigational strategies.…”

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“…Signage is a core topic in the advanced period (2016–2021). It appears that studies are focusing more on the impact of visual environmental attributes in the field [ 53 , 73 , 97 , 98 , 99 , 100 ]. In the developing period, there was a shift towards virtual reality, with novel topics such as “virtual reality” (18th), and “virtual environments” (16th) developing as leading research priorities [ 17 , 66 , 67 ].…”

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“…As for the advanced period (2016–2020), new priorities included “eye-tracking” (36th), “isovist” (38th), and “Montreal Cognitive Assessment” (44th). Research using the eye-tracking method has been investigating the visual environmental factors that impact wayfinding behavior [ 73 , 74 , 86 , 97 , 101 , 102 , 103 , 104 ]. Isovists and visibility graph analyses have also been paid more attention recently in indoor wayfinding studies [ 56 , 105 , 106 ].…”

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Mapping the Evolutions and Trends of Literature on Wayfinding in Indoor Environments

Ghamari

Sharifi

2021

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Research on indoor wayfinding has increased in number and significance since the 1980s. Yet, the information on wayfinding literature is now difficult to manage given its vast scope and spread across journals, institutions, disciplines, and themes. While there is an increasing number of publications within this rapidly growing field of research, there are limited review studies in the field, and there is still missing an overall analysis of the current state of wayfinding literature and its evolution. The main objective of this study is to present a bibliometric analysis of about forty years of research on indoor wayfinding to provide an overview of the research landscape. The final database of the study contained 407 publications. VOSviewer was used as a science mapping software tool to identify major focus areas and to identify influential authors, publications, and journals using various network analysis techniques, such as term co-occurrence, co-citation, and bibliographic coupling. Similar co-occurrence analysis was used to understand how the intellectual base of the field has evolved over time and what the major themes are that have contributed to this evolution. The results show that this field has initially been mainly focused on few themes but has later become more diversified to acknowledge the multi-dimensional characteristics of indoor wayfinding. While spatial knowledge acquisition and cognitive maps are still dominant core areas, there are topics, such as signage, isovists, and the use of eye-tracking and virtual reality, that still need to be further investigated.

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