Navigation assistance: A trade-off between wayfinding support and configural learning support.

Münzer, Stefan; Zimmer, Hubert D.; Baus, Jörg

doi:10.1037/a0026553

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“…Nowadays, mobile navigation systems take over guidance in real environments. This has detrimental effects on spatial learning: Münzer et al compared computer-assisted navigation to traditional map-based navigation and found differences in incidental knowledge acquisition (Münzer, Zimmer, & Baus, 2012;Münzer et al, 2006). Users of navigation systems showed good route memory but bad survey knowledge.…”

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“…They compared navigation with GPS devices to navigation with paper maps and to the direct experience, finding empirical evidence that users travelling with GPS devices acquire less survey knowledge. Münzer et al (2012) examined the effect of different visualization modes on incidental route and survey knowledge acquisition during an assisted tour through a real environment. When wayfinding instructions were presented in a "guidance mode" (turn-by-turn instructions from the egocentric perspective), then route memory was strengthened at the cost of survey knowledge.…”

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Wayfinding Through Orientation

Schwering

Krukar

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Spatial Cognition & Computation

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Dominant approaches in computer-assisted wayfinding support adhere to the deeply problematic principles of turn-byturn navigation. In this article, we suggest a new approach called "Wayfinding Through Orientation," which supports the acquisition of spatial knowledge and cognitive mapping for advancing the user's spatial orientation. Being oriented on one's way is a prerequisite to enabling people to verify instructions and to incorporate new spatial information into their existing knowledge structure. In three studies described in this article we first present empirical evidence that people can be supported in survey knowledge acquisition through suitable wayfinding instructions. Consequently, we explore orientation information in human wayfinding instructions. Finally, we outline how orientation information can be communicated within a prototypically implemented navigation assistance system.

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Wayfinding Through Orientation

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Krukar

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Spatial Cognition & Computation

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“…These cognitive maps are developed procedurally, building configurational understandings of a landscape over time (Kitchin 1996;Kitchin and Dodge 2007). Imparting configurational knowledge while providing adequate navigational visualizations and direction is a well-known challenge filled with tradeoffs in terms of mobile map and user interface design (Kitchin 1996;Kettunen et al 2012;Münzer et al 2012;Roth 2013).…”

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Implications of smartphone usage on privacy and spatial cognition: academic literature and public perceptions

2014

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The exponential adoption of smartphones affords the general public access to tools (sensors) that were once only available to highly trained scientists and geospatial technicians. This provides more people with opportunities to contribute and consume information relevant to their current location. Geographers have been applying critical theory to examine privacy implications associated with constant locational aware smartphone usage while applied researchers are measuring spatial cognitive abilities using empirically bound approaches. What remains unknown is how smartphone users perceive implications associated with privacy and spatial cognitive abilities as a result of smartphone use for location based queries. An online survey was administered to collect perceptions related to these issues from the general smartphoneusing public. It was found that while participants were mindful of privacy concerns associated with smartphone use, they reported that perceived benefits of smartphone use outweigh associated costs. Additionally, the majority of the participants found that their smartphones provided them with confidence in wayfinding tasks rather than hindering them as some literature suggests. Through this study we aim to describe how a lack of understanding of the general publics' perceptions of smartphone usage may be limiting contemporary theory and practice within volunteered geographic information and location based services related research associated with geography.

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“…However, these types of instructions hinder spatial learning while there are types of visualizations in mobile devices that could support orientation learning incidentally (Muenzer et al 2012). Thus, we propose a new way of structuring wayfinding instructions which deviates from purely procedural instructions but a system that supports cognitive representation of the environment during wayfinding.…”

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“…These route instructions differ in their content and structure from human-given instructions: navigation systems give instructions that draw people's attention solely to the route and its turning points (turn-by-turn directions). Many researchers have evaluated the effectiveness of navigation assistance systems during wayfinding (Ishikawa et al 2008;Muenzer et al 2012;Brown and Laurier 2012) and showed that turn-by-turn (TbT) systems hardly support spatial learning. Studies in cognitive wayfinding research showed the importance of landmarks at decision points (Denis 1997;Daniel and Denis 1998;Richter and Klippel 2005).…”

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Orientation information in wayfinding instructions: evidences from human verbal and visual instructions

2016

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Although the importance of landmarks for human navigation and for orientation is well accepted, most of today's navigation systems hardly incorporate any landmark information or information supporting orientation. Different from previous research that only addressed turn-by-turn instructions in verbal forms and landmarks at decision points, the present study provides empirical evidence that human-generated wayfinding instructions are not solely turn-by-turn but the majority of instructions provide orientation information. We propose a new classification scheme for identifying information in wayfinding instructions that will not only support orientation but also facilitate construction of mental map. We explored and compared two forms of representations-visual sketch map and verbal instructions. Results revealed that landmark information is important in human wayfinding instructions with particular importance of local landmarks along the route and global landmarks that support orientation. In addition, sketch maps contained more global landmarks than verbal instructions. In contrast to turn-by-turn navigation, we found that many instructions in human route descriptions do not always refer to turning actions but to orientation. We conducted interviews with a set of raters on what they consider helpful information in both forms of representations. These results confirmed our findings and supported that future route descriptions can be more meaningful and helpful when they are enriched with orientation information as they conform to how humans structure wayfinding instructions.

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Navigation assistance: A trade-off between wayfinding support and configural learning support.

Cited by 64 publications

References 67 publications

Wayfinding Through Orientation

Wayfinding Through Orientation

Implications of smartphone usage on privacy and spatial cognition: academic literature and public perceptions

Orientation information in wayfinding instructions: evidences from human verbal and visual instructions

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