What constitutes effective wayfinding directions: The interactive role of descriptive cues and memory demands

Gill, Devin

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2014.02.006

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“…As with findings in other studies (Hund and Gill, 2014;Hund and Padgitt, 2010;Lorenz et al, 2013), directions provided at service desks should be simple and concise. Often they can direct patrons to the next wayfinding tool to simplify the directions, or provide take-along maps to assist in wayfinding efforts.…”

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confidence: 59%

Comparing library wayfinding among novices and experts

Zaugg

Child

Bennett

et al. 2016

Performance Measurement and Metrics

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Comparing library wayfinding among novices and experts

Zaugg

Child

Bennett

et al. 2016

Performance Measurement and Metrics

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“…Other studies emphasise on how external factors contribute to wayfinding. These external factors include spatial structure (Holscher, C. et al, 2009), environmental cues (Hund and Gill, 2014;Pati, D. et al, 2015) and graphic communication (Li, P. et al, 2010;Zheng, M., 2012;Lee, S. et al, 2014). Lack of studies discussed the "in between" process of wayfinding, the link between internal and external factors: on how human interacts with space while he finds his way.…”

Section: Wayfinding In Previous Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Wayfinding Experience of Hospital Visitor through Tours and Maps Analysis

Mustikawati

Yatmo

Atmodiwirjo

2017

E-BPJ

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This paper proposes a spatial narrative approach in understanding the wayfinding spatial experience of hospital visitors in a building environment. Narrative actions involved in wayfinding journeys are explored and analysed using tours and maps reading (de Certeau, 1984) as analysis tools. The study aims at gaining an understanding of how wayfinding spatial experience of visitors is organized. This study reveals that wayfinding consists of both itinerary and spatial knowledge that always relate to and influence each other. Understanding hospital visitors" wayfinding spatial experience comprehensively can expand our knowledge for designing a supportive healthcare facility"s environment.Keywords: wayfinding; spatial experience; tours and maps; narrative. IntroductionThis paper discusses visitor"s wayfinding in a hospital environment. Hospitals are the environment that usually has large and complex layout where a problem of finding one"s way often occur, especially for patients and visitors who do not visit them frequently. The problem of wayfinding in a hospital can give many disadvantages for patients and visitors as the hospital users. Getting lost or being disoriented can cause anxiety and bring them in a stressful situation that may impact on their health condition. Wayfinding difficulty may also lead to the delay of obtaining medical treatment. For that reason, wayfinding has become an important factor in hospital design. It is one of the aspects that support hospital users" efficiency, safety and well-being (Carpman and Grant, 2016). Wayfinding becomes one of the parameters to the level of spatial quality of the healthcare facilities which affects the quality of service of the facilities (Haron et al., 2012, Samah et al., 2013.Wayfinding had been long known as a process that involved spatial knowledge and cognition. The studies based on this theoretical lens had revealed different strategies and supporting elements that people use to help them memorise routes and places. Wayfinding had also been considered as a process that involved decision making, made at decision points. The studies from this point of view provided information about the different level of wayfinding task and type of decision points. All of these studies discussed wayfinding as a process that involved the interaction between human-mind and space. There is still limited knowledge that discusses how the process of wayfinding also involves the interaction between human-body and space. This paper discusses the interaction between human-body and space during wayfinding, by considering wayfinding as a spatial experience. Spatial experience refers to how someone moves and relates to the surrounding space (Tuan, 1977). In this paper,

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“…Research comparing groups of probands living in the city and in a completely remote environment (tropical rain forests of Africa) failed to reach definite conclusions (Segall, Campbell and Herskovits, 1963;1966). Hund and Gill (2014) investigated the effect of stimuli and memory on finding one's way and looking for routes. They found that women are quicker if they have more stimuli usable for orientation, whereas with men there was no difference in how long it took them to find the way.…”

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Analysis of Visual Interpretation of Satellite Data

Svatonova¹

2016

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:Millions of people of all ages and expertise are using satellite and aerial data as an important input for their work in many different fields. Satellite data are also gradually finding a new place in education, especially in the fields of geography and in environmental issues. The article presents the results of an extensive research in the area of visual interpretation of image data carried out in the years 2013 -2015 in the Czech Republic. The research was aimed at comparing the success rate of the interpretation of satellite data in relation to a) the substrates (to the selected colourfulness, the type of depicted landscape or special elements in the landscape) and b) to selected characteristics of users (expertise, gender, age). The results of the research showed that (1) false colour images have a slightly higher percentage of successful interpretation than natural colour images, (2) colourfulness of an element expected or rehearsed by the user (regardless of the real natural colour) increases the success rate of identifying the element (3) experts are faster in interpreting visual data than non-experts, with the same degree of accuracy of solving the task, and (4) men and women are equally successful in the interpretation of visual image data.

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What constitutes effective wayfinding directions: The interactive role of descriptive cues and memory demands

Cited by 20 publications

References 28 publications

Comparing library wayfinding among novices and experts

Comparing library wayfinding among novices and experts

Understanding Wayfinding Experience of Hospital Visitor through Tours and Maps Analysis

Analysis of Visual Interpretation of Satellite Data

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