Finding the Building in Wayfinding

Peponis, John; Zimring, Craig; Choi, Yoon Kyung

doi:10.1177/0013916590225001

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“…That a configuration significantly affects movement at a microscopic level has also been discovered by researchers interested in space syntax (Hillier and Hanson, 1984). Peponis et al (1990) and, more recently, ul Haq (2001, make empirical studies of people movement in hospital environments. Peponis et al attempt a categorisation of a number of`rules' of navigation: (1) Avoid backtracking.…”

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Encoding Natural Movement as an Agent-Based System: An Investigation into Human Pedestrian Behaviour in the Built Environment

Turner

Penn

2002

Environ Plann B Plann Des

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IntroductionIn the literature on cognitive psychology, the issues raised by Gibson's ecological theory of perception (Gibson, 1979) have been examined and taken on board. Gibson's theory was formulated primarily in order to overturn theories laden with subjective and objective knowledge, and to replace them with a model in which the agent and its environment are conjoined by a set of affordances so the agent perceives the contents of the environment directly and uses the affordances within it to guide its action without reference to superior representational models. Today, Gibson's work has been contextualised and broken into further models in which recognition and representation do play a part (Neisser, 1994). However, in the domain of agent-based modelling we still appear to ignore the original concerns he voiced öin particular`the model' is always preceded by a theoretical framework, rather than simply being a perceptual model in its own right (see, for example, Casti, 1998;Epstein and Axtell, 1996). This paper is not an attempt to overturn the body of literature which already exists in agentbased modelling, although it does constitute a plea for the use of direct perception where the approach is available, and to try to regard the environment as the provider of possibilities rather than as a place to be rationalised. As an example, consider human movement around an art gallery. There might be any number of causal factors for the routes people take. People might, for example, follow a map, or signage, take into account the direction other people are taking, a glimpse of a familiar painting, reject a route on the grounds of personal prejudice against a style, and so on. On the other hand, the possibility of exploring the walkable surface of the layout ahead (the rooms of the gallery) may simply be enough for a human to do exactly that. Abstract. Gibson's ecological theory of perception has received considerable attention within psychology literature, as well as in computer vision and robotics. However, few have applied Gibson's approach to agent-based models of human movement, because the ecological theory requires that individuals have a vision-based mental model of the world, and for large numbers of agents this becomes extremely expensive computationally. Thus, within current pedestrian models, path evaluation is based on calibration from observed data or on sophisticated but deterministic route-choice mechanisms;there is little open-ended behavioural modelling of human-movement patterns. One solution which allows individuals rapid concurrent access to the visual information within an environment is an`exosomatic visual architecture', where the connections between mutually visible locations within a configuration are prestored in a lookup table. Here we demonstrate that, with the aid of an exosomatic visual architecture, it is possible to develop behavioural models in which movement rules originating from Gibson's principle of affordance are utilised. We apply large numbers of agents programmed with these r...

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Encoding Natural Movement as an Agent-Based System: An Investigation into Human Pedestrian Behaviour in the Built Environment

Turner

Penn

2002

Environ Plann B Plann Des

263

185

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“…Signage stimuli also facilitate navigation (Hölscher et al, 2006, O'Neill, 1991Passini, 1984;Peponis et al 1990;Titus & Everett, 1995;Weisman, 1981). Sorensen (2009) found that 80 percent of shoppers' in-store time is spent navigating and the remaining 20 percent is spent deciding which items to purchase; on this basis, it is likely that customers will be exposed to, and influenced by, signage material during both the navigation and decisionmaking stages of the in-store search process.…”

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Vision (im)possible? The effects of in-store signage on customers’ visual attention

Otterbring

Wästlund

Gustafsson

et al. 2014

Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services

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We used two eye-tracking field experiments to investigate the extent to which in-store signage is used during navigation and decision making, and how the viewing of signage influences customers' visual attention and choice behavior. One hundred and seventy-five customers at a grocery store were exposed to signage stimuli while carrying out predefined shopping tasks. Experiment 1 shows that attention toward signage is affected by customers' levels of store familiarity and in-store search stage (navigation vs. decision making).Experiment 2 demonstrates that signage has a considerable impact on the direction and magnitude of customers' visual attention during decision making.

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“…This has been found in homes [15] and in factories [26]. In terms of prediction, integration has been found to be predictive of aggregate movement, with integrated routes preferred to segregated routes during search tasks [27]. Some research has been done on space syntax measures as predictive of movement through virtual environments.…”

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A spatial analysis of the JBA headquarters in Splinter Cell: Double Agent

Martín

2014

Entertainment Computing

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The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the repository url above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription.For more information, please contact eprints@nottingham.ac.uk A spatial analysis of the JBA headquarters in Splinter Cell: Double Agent. ABSTRACTThree measures drawn from space syntax are proposed as means of describing game spaces with a view to a morphological critical analysis. These measures are: core integration and segregation, isovist area, and visibility/accessibility discrepancy (VAD). The measures are applied to the JBA headquarters levels in the stealth game Splinter Cell: Double Agent in order to evaluate the space in terms of the navigational challenges and affordances with which it presents the player and in terms of the rhythms of tension and relief inherent in its layout. It is demonstrated how these challenges and rhythms are married to the specific game tasks and events that each level contains.

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Finding the Building in Wayfinding

Cited by 294 publications

References 12 publications

Encoding Natural Movement as an Agent-Based System: An Investigation into Human Pedestrian Behaviour in the Built Environment

Encoding Natural Movement as an Agent-Based System: An Investigation into Human Pedestrian Behaviour in the Built Environment

Vision (im)possible? The effects of in-store signage on customers’ visual attention

A spatial analysis of the JBA headquarters in Splinter Cell: Double Agent

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