Wayfinding Choremes

Klippel, Alexander

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-39923-0_20

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“…Accordingly, these intersections and their configuration are a main contributor to route complexity. In the dynamic context of wayfinding, they are often referred to as decision points (e.g., [16]). …”

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Wayfinding Decision Situations: A Conceptual Model and Evaluation

Giannopoulos

Kiefer

Raubal

et al. 2014

Geographic Information Science

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Abstract. Humans engage in wayfinding many times a day. We try to find our way in urban environments when walking towards our work places or when visiting a city as tourists. In order to reach the targeted destination, we have to make a series of wayfinding decisions of varying complexity. Previous research has focused on classifying the complexity of these wayfinding decisions, primarily looking at the complexity of the decision point itself (e.g., the number of possible routes or branches). In this paper, we proceed one step further by incorporating the user, instructions, and environmental factors into a model that assesses the complexity of a wayfinding decision. We constructed and evaluated three models using data collected from an outdoor wayfinding study. Our results suggest that additional factors approximate the complexity of a wayfinding decision better than the simple model using only the number of branches as a criterion.

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“…However, this measure ignores certain dynamics of wayfinding [16]. For example, continuing straight at an intersection is arguably easier than turning left or right.…”

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Wayfinding Decision Situations: A Conceptual Model and Evaluation

Giannopoulos

Kiefer

Raubal

et al. 2014

Geographic Information Science

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“…In doing so, we rely on the dichotomy of structural and functional entities which accounts for concepts of space relative to specific activities through a two-level space conceptualization (Klippel, 2003;Richter & Klippel, 2005). Structural entities belong to physical reality (e.g., ridge, gulley, crack), whereas functional entities pertain to the ways in which the physical landscape is demarcated through wayfinding actions (e.g., route, pitch, approach).…”

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Fictive motion in the context of mountaineering

Egorova

Tenbrink

Purves

2018

Spatial Cognition & Computation

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Fictive motion in language (as in "the ridge went north") is claimed to reflect the attention focus of the observer on the extension and spatial layout of an entity. This paper investigates fictive motion in alpine narratives, which describe the experience of moving in a very specifically structured space. We examine space properties that are highlighted through fictive motion in this specific context and describe how they go beyond spatial extension. We further report the communicative motivation behind the use of fictive motion, ranging from conveying the sense of place to encoding the full spatial footprint of a motion event.

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“…Regarding communicating verbal descriptions, several researchers developed approaches in finding a structure to effectively describe wayfinding instructions (Denis and Zimmer 1992;Allen 1997;Timpf 2002;Klippel 2003;Tenbrink 2014). These instructions could either be based on route knowledge, survey knowledge or a mix of both (Tversky et al 1999).…”

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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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Wayfinding Choremes

Cited by 77 publications

References 36 publications

Wayfinding Decision Situations: A Conceptual Model and Evaluation

Wayfinding Decision Situations: A Conceptual Model and Evaluation

Fictive motion in the context of mountaineering

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

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