How do voice-assisted digital maps influence human wayfinding in pedestrian navigation?

Xu, Yawei; Qin, Tong; Wu, Yulin; Yu, Cheng; Dong, Weihua

doi:10.1080/15230406.2021.2017798

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“…Dong et al [48] found no radical difference in the effectiveness and efficiency of wayfinding time, errors, and interaction with tools between AR users and 2D electronic map users. Similarly, Xu et al [54] compared voice-assisted digital maps with paper maps and found that regardless of the navigation aid used, the cognitive workload and search efficiency of environmental information are quite similar, and no significant difference was found in landmark knowledge acquisition and distance and time estimation. Rehman and Cao [6] also found that digital navigation aids (wearable devices and smartphones) were not significantly different in performance and workload.…”

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“…The wayfinders with higher spatial ability skills experience less workload and are more confident navigating indoor-outdoor campus wayfinding. According to the research investigating navigation assistance and wayfinding, navigation aid can play a role in shaping human spatial ability as it influences human wayfinding and navigation [54]. Therefore, it is important to design navigation aids that improve spatial ability as it affects the workload.…”

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“…Researchers have explored different aspects of navigation aids that can influence spatial knowledge acquisition. Xu et al [54] found that the use of voice-assisted digital maps may result in time efficiency, but it can reduce the spatial knowledge acquisition of pedestrians. According to Münzer et al [68], appropriate visualization can support the acquisition of self-to-object spatial knowledge.…”

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“…Previous research has also explored different ways to provide assistance and help in navigation applications to aid users in wayfinding and should be used in designing better campus navigation applications. Xu et al [54] found that voice-assisted digital maps can increase participants' comfort levels and help them reach their destination more quickly compared to the other types of maps. Vainio [59] demonstrated the potential of multidisciplinary approaches and multimodal navigation aids to support the navigation and wayfinding of mobile users [59].…”

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Impact of Navigation Aid and Spatial Ability Skills on Wayfinding Performance and Workload in Indoor-Outdoor Campus Navigation: Challenges and Design

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2023

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Wayfinding is important for everyone on a university campus to understand where they are and get to where they want to go to attend a meeting or a class. This study explores the dynamics of mobile navigation apps and the spatial ability skills of individuals on a wayfinding performance and perceived workload on a university campus wayfinding, including indoor-outdoor navigation, by focusing on three research objectives. (1) Compare the effectiveness of Google Maps (outdoor navigation app) and MazeMap (indoor-outdoor navigation app) on wayfinding performance and perceived workload in university campus wayfinding. (2) Investigate the impact of participants’ spatial ability skills on their wayfinding performance and perceived workload regardless of the used navigation app. (3) Highlight the challenges in indoor-outdoor university campus wayfinding using mobile navigation apps. To achieve this, a controlled experiment was conducted with 22 participants divided into a control (using Google Maps) and an experiment group (using MazeMap). Participants were required to complete a time-bound wayfinding task of navigating to meeting rooms in different buildings within the Gløshaugen campus of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. Participants were assessed on spatial ability tests, mental workload, and wayfinding performance using a questionnaire, observation notes and a short follow-up interview about the challenges they faced in the task. The findings reveal a negative correlation between overall spatial ability score (spatial reasoning, spatial orientation, and sense of direction) and perceived workload (NASA TLX score and Subjective Workload Rating) and a negative correlation between sense of direction score and total hesitation during wayfinding task. However, no significant difference was found between the Google Maps and the MazeMap group for wayfinding performance and perceived workload. The qualitative analysis resulted in five key challenge categories in university campus wayfinding, providing implications for designing navigation systems that better facilitate indoor-outdoor campus navigation.

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“…The digital system has a strong and rapidly growing evidence base that can be used to promote walkability in the city. This is an effective system to create confidence to implement the pedestrian network by citizens in the future that is managed by the municipality as the main stockholder in the city [61].…”

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Defining a Digital System for the Pedestrian Network as a Conceptual Implementation Framework

2022

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In cities today, the digitalization of mobility is one of the most crucial tools that link each single mobility service providers (e.g., ride sharing, public transportation, air travel, etc.) to users. Based on the smart pedestrian network model, the purpose of this study is to initially provide the requirements towards the digitalization of a pedestrian network model and subsequently to draft an institutional framework towards the effective implementation and management of pedestrian mobility that will develop/create a pedestrian network as a new structure in the city. The methodology is applied in three phases, with three separate approaches: “desk approach” for a data gathering standard that is knowledge-based and connected to walkability; a “digitalization approach” for citizen and stakeholder participation in policy co-creation; and a “business approach”. A business approach is defined as a set of operations that takes one or more types of input and produces a customer-valued outcome. In this case, customers are citizens and the business approach by applying a digital system is assessing policies and finding/defining an optimized combination of shared applicable/effective policies to implement the pedestrian network. By boosting an innovative linkage of these three phases, digitalization of the pedestrian network has great potential to improve the walkability planning process and therefore to create more sustainable and livable urban spaces.

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2024

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How do voice-assisted digital maps influence human wayfinding in pedestrian navigation?

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Impact of Navigation Aid and Spatial Ability Skills on Wayfinding Performance and Workload in Indoor-Outdoor Campus Navigation: Challenges and Design

Impact of Navigation Aid and Spatial Ability Skills on Wayfinding Performance and Workload in Indoor-Outdoor Campus Navigation: Challenges and Design

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