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Assessment of Wayfinding Performance in Complex Healthcare Facilities: A Conceptual Framework

open access: yesSustainability, 2022
Wayfinding is considered to be one of the most demanding challenges to be performed by hospitals’ users. Wayfinding has been an interest among researchers from different fields, such as architecture, interior design, cognitive psychology, and facilities ...
Ammar Al-Sharaa   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Exploring an absent presence: Wayfinding as an embodied sociocultural experience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Wayfinding has often been seen as being about the quickest or shortest possible route between two points (Hölscher et al 2011; Tam 2011; Haque et al 2006).
Symonds, Paul   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Wayfinding Research in Library and Information Studies: State of the Field

open access: yesEvidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2017
Objective – Often people enter libraries focused on their primary information needs and haven't considered their need for spatial information to find their way to what they need.
Lauren H. Mandel
doaj   +1 more source

Passengers’ safety awareness and perception of wayfinding tools in a Ro-Ro passenger ship during an emergency evacuation

open access: yes, 2021
Wayfinding tools are important parts of the emergency evacuation identification system, which can improve passengers’ understanding of the evacuation process, and guide people to evacuate quickly.
Xinjian Wang   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Wayfinding Whilst Driving, Age and Cognitive Functioning

open access: yesJournal of Road Safety, 2023
Older drivers are more likely to have difficulty wayfinding in unfamiliar areas than younger people. The present study investigated the role of cognitive functioning and age on wayfinding difficulties and driving performance whilst driving in unfamiliar ...
Kelly Jane Bryden   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Wayfinding Tools for People With Visual Impairments in Real-World Settings: A Literature Review of Recent Studies

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2021
A review of 35 peer reviewed articles dated from 2016 to February, 2021 was conducted to identify and describe the types of wayfinding devices that people who are blind, visually impaired or deafblind use while navigating indoors and/or outdoors in ...
Amy T Parker   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Pacific Wayfinding Educational Leadership Through Tautai o le Moana

open access: yes, 2023
‘Tautai o le Moana’/Wayfinders of the Ocean (TolM) is a partnership between the New Zealand Ministry of Education and the New Zealand Pasifika Principals Association.
Jacobs, Mary   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Wayfinding: How Ecological Perspectives of Navigating Dynamic Environments Can Enrich Our Understanding of the Learner and the Learning Process in Sport

open access: yesSports Medicine - Open, 2020
Wayfinding is the process of embarking upon a purposeful, intentional, and self-regulated journey that takes an individual from an intended region in one landscape to another.
C. Woods   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Users’ Experience of Digital Wayfinding Screens: A Uses and Gratification Perspective from South Africa

open access: yesAdvances in Human-Computer Interaction, 2020
Marketing and business communication researchers have neglected the wayfinding capabilities of digital out-of-home communication in the retailing landscape.
Thérèse Roux
doaj   +1 more source

Towards Linguistic Inclusivity: An Exploration of the Wayfinding System at Stellenbosch University, South Africa

open access: yesInterdisciplinary Journal of Signage and Wayfinding, 2022
     Effective wayfinding design should efficiently and accessibly provide navigational tools to its user. These tools are multidimensional and engage a complex network of socio-political, cultural, economic, and linguistic issues.
Gera de Villiers   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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