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NSF Wayfinding in Children

open access: yes, 2023
Wayfinding refers to an ability to identify one’s current location and successfully navigate to an unseen location in the environment. Wayfinding is critical to everyday life as we constantly need to go to places and it has important implications for ...
Jennifer Yang   +2 more
core   +1 more source

A bibliometric analysis of published literature on healthcare facilities' wayfinding research from 1974 to 2020

open access: yesHeliyon, 2022
Objectives: Wayfinding in complex environments is a public issue facing the world and has become a hot research topic in recent years. This article reviews and quantitatively analyzes the literature on wayfinding in healthcare facilities and collates the
Lujie Deng, Nurul Hanim Romainoor
doaj   +1 more source

From Ad Hoc to Function: Vancouver Foundation's Journey to Learning Through Evaluation

open access: yesNew Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This case narrative details the Vancouver Foundation's (VF) journey from ad‐hoc reporting to a core internal learning and evaluation function. Catalyzed by the pandemic and motivated by the increasing need, VF established the Engagement Department to house evaluation independently.
Vincent Tom
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of the Correlation Between Layout and Wayfinding Decisions in Hospitals

open access: yesMegaron, 2020
As a research topic of several disciplines such as psychology, sociology, and especially architecture, wayfinding is always on the agenda and is open to research. In this paper, the relationships between the wayfinding decisions of the users in hospitals
Esra Aksoy   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Aftasten/Tantear: A sensorial, coalitional wayfinding among Muslim runners

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Muslim recreational runners in Muslim‐minority settings that take up running as their preferred form of leisure indicate that they feel they have to navigate a sense of exclusion when running outdoors. This article explores the process of exploration and sensing in public, represented by the Dutch verb aftasten, to investigate the way Muslim ...
Jasmijn Rana
wiley   +1 more source

Virtual reality as a tool to investigate and predict occupant behaviour in the real world: the example of wayfinding

open access: yesJournal of Information Technology in Construction, 2021
The use of virtual reality (VR) is expanding within the AEC sectors, commonly in design and pre-construction decision-making, including as a tool to test and predict the behaviours of building occupants.
I. Ewart, Harry Johnson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Dopaminergic novelty detection and theta oscillations: Virtual reality‐based adaptive interventions for cognitive enhancement in aging

open access: yesIbrain, EarlyView.
Aging‐related cognitive decline is associated with reduced dopaminergic signaling and disrupted theta oscillations, which together impair novelty detection and memory formation. This review shows how VR environments can be used to deliver adaptive, novelty‐rich stimuli that engage dopaminergic circuits and entrain theta rhythms, thereby enhancing ...
Abraham Olufemi Asuku   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wayfinding : a simple concept, a complex process

open access: yes, 2012
Wayfinding is the process of finding your way to a destination in a familiar or unfamiliar setting using any cues given by the environment. Due to its ubiquity in everyday life, wayfinding appears on the surface to be a simply characterised and ...
Kleinschmidt, Tristan   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Botanic and heritage gardens as living laboratories in the age of the polycrisis

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Societal Impact Statement Cities face intertwined crises of climate, biodiversity loss and social disconnection. We show how botanic and heritage gardens can help address these challenges as living laboratories to generate place‐based evidence and public engagement.
Kevin Frediani
wiley   +1 more source

Wayfinding in People with Alzheimer’s Disease: Perspective Taking and Architectural Cognition—A Vision Paper on Future Dementia Care Research Opportunities

open access: yesSustainability, 2021
Based on a targeted literature review, this vision paper emphasizes the importance of dementia-sensitive built space. The article specifically focuses on supporting spatial orientation and wayfinding for people living with dementia.
S. Kuliga, M. Berwig, M. Roes
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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