Where is my car? Examining wayfinding behavior in a parking lot

Mora, Rodrígo; Allard, José Manuel; Zurob, Carola

doi:10.1590/1984-0292/1310

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“…People were faster and better when travelling the route in the originally learned direction (forward) compared to navigating the return path. This is consistent with findings using similar or even real life paradigms (e.g., Gillner and Mallot, 1998; Wiener et al, 2012; Mora et al, 2014). No landmark position effect was found.…”

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Finding the Return Path: Landmark Position Effects and the Influence of Perspective

2016

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Much research has been done on how people find their way from one place to another. Compared to that, there is less research available on how people find back from the destination to their origin. We first present theoretical approaches to perceptual and cognitive processes involved in finding a return path, including concepts, such as visibility, structural salience, and allocentric versus egocentric perspective, followed by a series of three experiments. In these experiments, we presented subjects intersections that contained landmark information on different positions. In order to investigate the processes involved, we used different measures, such as route-continuation (in learning direction and in opposite direction) and free-recall of route information. In summary, the results demonstrate the importance of landmark positions at intersections (structural salience in combination with perspective) and that finding the return path is more difficult than reproducing the same route from the learning condition. All findings will be discussed with respect to the current research literature on landmark-based wayfinding.

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“…The mere existence of a cognitive map would not guarantee a null effect between initial and return path. For example, a recent study (carried out in a parking lot of a shopping mall) showed that the return path was on average 10% longer than the initial path (Mora et al, 2014). …”

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confidence: 99%