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GISCIENCE
2004
Springer
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14 years 25 days ago
Landmarks in the Communication of Route Directions
We investigate the understanding of landmarks using a model of embedding procedures that sees affordances established on three levels. On the first level there are landmark experie...
Elisabeth Weissensteiner, Stephan Winter
CHINZ
2005
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
The territory is the map: designing navigational aids
It has been shown that people encounter difficulties in using representations and devices designed to assist navigating unfamiliar terrain. Literature review and self-reported vis...
Nicola J. Bidwell, Christopher Lueg, Jeff Axup
COSIT
2007
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
A Uniform Handling of Different Landmark Types in Route Directions
Abstract. Landmarks are crucial for human wayfinding. Their integration in wayfinding assistance systems is essential for generating cognitively ergonomic route directions. I prese...
Kai-Florian Richter
COSIT
1999
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Elements of Good Route Directions in Familiar and Unfamiliar Environments
Route directions are instructions, primarily verbal, that explain how to get from one place to another. The current study examines several methods for assessing the quality of verb...
Kristin L. Lovelace, Mary Hegarty, Daniel R. Monte...
GISCIENCE
2010
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Automatic Extraction of Destinations, Origins and Route Parts from Human Generated Route Directions
Researchers from the cognitive and spatial sciences are studying text descriptions of movement patterns in order to examine how humans communicate and understand spatial informatio...
Xiao Zhang, Prasenjit Mitra, Alexander Klippel, Al...