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D'Orazio, Matthew J.; Lueg, Christopher

doi:10.1145/2414536.2414551

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“…A principle concern has been that technologies are often developed without designing for how users then appropriate technologies to existing practices in those settings (Crabtree et al, 2013). For example, turn-by-turn navigational instructions developed for driving and walking in urban environments do not translate well into unstructured rural environments (McGookin & Magnusson, 2012); GPS-navigation is useful for macro-navigation, but poor at supporting micro-navigation (D'Orazio & Lueg, 2012).…”

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“…Users of map apps perform acts of orientation in a similar way to those using traditional maps, but they also make use of dynamic features, such as "walking the blue dot" to check a new position relative to a previous one (Brown et al, 2013). Map apps also present users with sense-making problems which manifest as navigational troubles, such as time lag for GPS (D'Orazio & Lueg, 2012). The uses of guides and maps are shaped by the activities they serve, equally the guide or map is shaped towards its uses (e.g., the difference between a game map and a guided tour map [Bell et al, 2009]).…”

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“Off the beaten map”: Navigating with digital maps on moorland

Smith

Laurier

Reeves

et al. 2019

Trans Inst British Geog

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Resources made available through the digital map app change, but do not replace, the skills of “ordinary wayfinding.” Looking at the challenges of wayfinding with new mobile devices helps inform the development of digital mapping tools for navigating through difficult terrain. With this background in mind, in this paper we consider how the contemporary navigational resources of mobile devices with GPS, and the resources of countryside landscape features, are brought together in visiting a tourist site. We analyse video data from groups walking across unfamiliar moorland terrain, following a guide and map app which takes them on a tour of a remote Roman marching camp in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales. Following an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approach, we examine three instances of navigational work for paired walkers as they traverse the moorland. The three fragments are of: an orientational struggle to establish where to go next; a routine check to select a path; and the discovery of a feature mentioned in the guide. Across the three episodes we explicate how our walkers make sense of the guide and map in relation to investigating the moorland surface. We examine how their ambulatory and undulatory practices on the moorland are tied to their wayfinding practices. While we analyse wayfinding talk, we also attend to the mobile practices of stopping and pausing as part of practical navigational reasoning.

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Section: Technologies Walking and Navigatingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Off the beaten map”: Navigating with digital maps on moorland

Smith

Laurier

Reeves

et al. 2019

Trans Inst British Geog

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Backtracking during navigation is correlated with enhanced anterior cingulate activity and suppression of alpha oscillations and the ‘default-mode’ network

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Successful navigation can require realizing the current path choice was a mistake and the best strategy is to retreat along the recent path: ‘back-track’. Despite the wealth of studies on the neural correlates of navigation little is known about backtracking. To explore the neural underpinnings of backtracking we tested humans during functional magnetic resonance imaging on their ability to navigate to a set of goal locations in a virtual desert island riven by lava which constrained the paths that could be taken. We found that on a subset of trials, participants spontaneously chose to backtrack and that the majority of these choices were optimal. During backtracking, activity increased in frontal regions and the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, while activity was suppressed in regions associated with the core default-mode network. Using the same task, magnetoencephalography and a separate group of participants, we found that power in the alpha band was significantly decreased immediately prior to such backtracking events. These results highlight the importance for navigation of brain networks previously identified in processing internally-generated errors and that such error-detection responses may involve shifting the brain from default-mode states to aid successful spatial orientation.

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Classifying users of mobile pedestrian navigation tools

Wen

Helton

Billinghurst

2013

Proceedings of the 25th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference: Augmentation, Application, Innovation, Collaboration

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Providing the most appropriate navigation information on mobile devices for pedestrians requires an understanding of how pedestrians use navigation technology. While large-scale studies have identified different types of pedestrian navigation behaviour, far less data exists for classifying navigators by the technology they use. We report on a study that presented pedestrian users with multiple navigation interfaces in order to gain insight on usage preferences. We create a classification of users based on observed usage behavior that would be helpful for designing pedestrian navigation aids.

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Peg hunting

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

“Off the beaten map”: Navigating with digital maps on moorland

“Off the beaten map”: Navigating with digital maps on moorland

Backtracking during navigation is correlated with enhanced anterior cingulate activity and suppression of alpha oscillations and the ‘default-mode’ network

Classifying users of mobile pedestrian navigation tools

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