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Spatial ability, urban wayfinding and location-based services:a review and first results [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Location-Based Services (LBS) are a new industry at the core of which are GISand spatial databases. With increasing mobility of individuals, the anticipatedavailability of broadband communications for mobile devices and growingvolumes of location ...
Li, C
core  

Creating positive wayfinding experience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
About half a century after Lynch's research about way-finding, designers have been able to solve wayfinding problems more comprehensively. But the role of emotion, especially that of the positive ones on wayfinding design has seldom been systematically ...
Wang, Yanling
core   +1 more source

From Encounter to Enclosure: Reframing the Museum Visit as Informal Immersive Learning

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This perspective paper argues that museum visits are not only encounters with collections but spatially organized learning experiences in which immersion emerges through sociocultural interaction. It brings into dialogue the Sociocultural Interaction Model (SCIM), which explains museum interaction through motivation, context, and actuation ...
Farzan Baradaran Rahimi
wiley   +1 more source

Initial Psychometric Evaluation of the Wayfinding Effectiveness Scale [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This study evaluates three versions of the Wayfinding Effectiveness Scale (WES), developed to differentiate problems of wayfinding and wandering behavior of community-residing elders with dementia (EWD), in 266 dyads (EWD and caregiver) recruited from ...
Song, Jun Ah   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Unterwegs in fremden Umgebungen Ein praxeologischer Zugang zum „wayfinding“ von Fußgängern

open access: yesRaumforschung und Raumordnung, 2011
The process how people manage to find their way has been discussed in the Anglo-Saxon literature already since the 1980s using the term wayfinding. However, as wayfindingresearch is mainly rooted within environmental psychology, it basically focuses on ...
Rainer Kazig, Monika Popp
doaj   +1 more source

An Updated Ecology of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) at Sea

open access: yesFisheries Oceanography, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Atlantic salmon have had a key role in European and North American oceans and human societies. Salmon are exploited and observed in rivers and along coasts, but there has always been great interest in knowing where salmon are going when they are at sea.
Robert J. Lennox   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Gamification-Based Approach on Indoor Wayfinding Research

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020
Indoor environments can be very complex. Due to the challenges in these environments in combination with the absence of mobile wayfinding aids, a great need exists for innovative research on indoor wayfinding.
Dries De Leeuw   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Is Time Travel Possible? Accidental Signs as Sociolinguistic “Wormholes”

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociolinguistics primarily focuses on deliberately staged public signs, while relatively less attention has been given to ephemeral and non‐deliberate signs in urban environments. This study investigates “ accidental signs,” which are hidden historical texts suddenly exposed by unpredictable events.
Ge SONG (宋歌)
wiley   +1 more source

Emerging Resistance in the Digital Transformation of Public Transport: Older Passengers With Dementia and Experiences of Ecobiographical Disruption

open access: yesInformation Systems Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The digital transformation of public transport is prone to resistance. Among the discontents of such transformation, older people and those living with cognitive impairments are repeatedly identified. Stereotypes assuming their innate resistance to technological change are widespread, but research shows that older people with dementia can have
James Rupert Fletcher
wiley   +1 more source

Mental health and wayfinding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Wayfinding uses a range of skills including recalling information from memory, interpreting information from the environment, and taking decisions based on this information.
Mackett, R
core   +1 more source

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