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Wayfinding in Healthcare Facilities: Contributions from Environmental Psychology
Behavioral Sciences, 2014 The ability to successfully navigate in healthcare facilities is an important goal for patients, visitors, and staff. Despite the fundamental nature of such behavior, it is not infrequent for planners to consider wayfinding only after the fact, once the ...
Ann Sloan Devlin
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Enhancing user experience through wayfinding in educational buildings [PDF]
Urbanism. Arhitectura. ConstructiiThe process of navigating through an environment to reach a desired destination is known as wayfinding. It involves understanding one's current location, determining the desired destination and choosing a path to get there.
Mansha Samreen, Gargi Jha
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Decoding wayfinding: analyzing wayfinding processes in the outdoor environment
International Journal of Geographical Information ScienceInternational Journal of Geographical Information Science, 39 (8)
Negar Alinaghi +3 more
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Wayfinding Behavior in India [PDF]
, 2015 India is highly heterogeneous in the way cities are laid out; the way people use landmarks and how certain cultural aspects affect wayfinding. These factors influence the design of maps and navigation systems.Users from Mumbai and Rajasthan were interviewed to explore such implications and find design opportunities. These users had low education levels
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The concept of wayfinding as a criterion of design: definitions and debates
Megaron, 2015 Wayfinding is finding of the way that reaches the particular destination of individuals without any delays or concerns. Although moving from one space to another is a straightforward and daily phase, losing one's way may turn out to be an annoying ...
Begüm Erçevik Sönmez +1 more
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BuildingsThe average daily throughput of large-scale passenger high-speed railway stations is large, and the design of the inbound space connecting with the underground and other modes of transport affects the passengers’ wayfinding behaviour and time spent ...
Zhongzhong Zeng, Kun Zhang, Bo Zhang
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International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher EducationWayfinding, which is a part of learning in connectivist learning, involves consolidating a wide variety of resources and information and building connections among them.
Jinju Duan, Kui Xie, Qiuhua Zhao
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-InformationWayfinding with minimal effort is essential for reducing cognitive load and emotional stress in unfamiliar environments. This exploratory quasi-experimental study investigated wayfinding challenges in a university building housing three spatially ...
Jain Kwon +4 more
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The Effects of Senses of Direction on Wayfinding Behaviors: Evidence from Biking Tourists
SHS Web of Conferences, 2014 The purpose of this study is to examine and observe the effects of senses of direction (i.e., abilities of memory and awareness of orientation) on wayfinding behaviors for biking tourists.
Lin Jo-Hui +4 more
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Marilyn Zurmuehlen Working Papers in Art Education, 2018 The study Wayfinding Peace: Museums in Conflict Zones reconsiders the approaches peace museums have taken when promoting peace by drawing on the ways ethnographer Sultan Somjee and the Community Peace Museums Heritage Foundation (CPMHF) in Kenya utilize the African humanist philosophy of Utu in their museum practices in conflict zones.
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