Are Wayfinding Self-efficacy and Pleasure in Exploring Related to Shortcut Finding? A Study in a Virtual Environment

Pazzaglia, Francesca; Meneghetti, Chiara; Labate, Enia; Ronconi, Lucia

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“…It would be interesting to manipulate such environmental features and procedural variables in the same study to clarify their influence on performance, and importance as predictive variables. To give an example, Pazzaglia et al (2017) compared two conditions, with and without landmarks, in the same VE, and found that self-efficacy and pleasure in exploring became more important when the task was more difficult (in the no landmarks condition). Srinivas (2011) also found that spatial anxiety has a more harmful effect in difficult than in easy tasks.…”

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“…As for the positive emotions, it was found that individuals who take pleasure in exploring places tend to have a good sense of direction ( De Beni et al, 2014 ), and perform better in spatial tasks ( Meneghetti et al, 2014 ; Muffato et al, 2016 , 2017 ). In the same vein, Pazzaglia et al (2017) showed that a significant part of the variability in the performance of a shortcut-finding task was explained by an aggregate measure of pleasure in exploring and spatial self-efficacy. Interestingly, the strength of the relationship between subjective measures and WF tasks seems to depend on how difficult the task is: the tougher the task, the stronger the relationship ( Weisberg et al, 2014 ; Pazzaglia et al, 2017 )…”

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“…In the same vein, Pazzaglia et al (2017) showed that a significant part of the variability in the performance of a shortcut-finding task was explained by an aggregate measure of pleasure in exploring and spatial self-efficacy. Interestingly, the strength of the relationship between subjective measures and WF tasks seems to depend on how difficult the task is: the tougher the task, the stronger the relationship ( Weisberg et al, 2014 ; Pazzaglia et al, 2017 )…”

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“…The study by Pazzaglia et al (2017) suggests that self-efficacy, as well as anxiety, may affect WF behavior. Bandura (1997) described self-efficacy (a motivational factor traditionally defined from a socio-cognitive perspective) as a person’s belief in their ability to accomplish a task.…”

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Tracing a Route and Finding a Shortcut: The Working Memory, Motivational, and Personality Factors Involved

Pazzaglia

Meneghetti

Ronconi

2018

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Wayfinding (WF) is the ability to move around efficiently and find the way from a starting point to a destination. It is a component of spatial navigation, a coordinate and goal-directed movement of one’s self through the environment. In the present study, the relationship between WF tasks (route tracing and shortcut finding) and individual factors were explored with the hypothesis that WF tasks would be predicted by different types of cognitive, affective, motivational variables, and personality factors. A group of 116 university students (88 F.) were conducted along a route in a virtual environment and then asked first to trace the same route again, and then to find a shortcut between the start and end points. Several instruments assessing visuospatial working memory, mental rotation ability, self-efficacy, spatial anxiety, positive attitude to exploring, and personality traits were administered. The results showed that a latent spatial ability factor (measured with the visuospatial working memory and mental rotations tests) – controlled for gender – predicted route-tracing performance, while self-report measures of anxiety, efficacy, and pleasure in exploring, and some personality traits were more likely to predict shortcut-finding performance. We concluded that both personality and cognitive abilities affect WF performance, but differently, depending on the requirements of the task.

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Tracing a Route and Finding a Shortcut: The Working Memory, Motivational, and Personality Factors Involved

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Ronconi

2018

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…Yet, since no turnkey solution is available for virtual environments, when using virtual reality, researchers need to develop laboratory-made virtual environments from scratch (Khan & Rahman, 2018;Li et al, 2019;Lingwood et al, 2018;Pazzaglia et al, 2017;Sharma et al, 2017). Unfortunately, the technical burden of developing functional and life-like virtual settings often restricts the degree of fidelity of the environment to the real world that is achieved.…”

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Exploring human behavior with Grand Theft Auto V: A study of assisted cognition in wayfinding

Delgrange

Burkhardt

Gyselinck

2020

IJVR

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The rise of virtual reality has overcome many of the methodological challenges faced by researchers studying spatial navigation. Yet, the difficulty in developing life-like virtual settings still remains a substantial barrier to most studies when fidelity to the real world has to be achieved in order to ensure some psychological validity of the results. Moreover, the variety of the settings results in standardization issues across studies. Our argument is that widely available video games could represent a worthwhile alternative to laboratory-made virtual environments, while providing a satisfactory methodological quality. This study assessed a prototype of landmark-based navigational aid by administering wayfinding tasks in the video game Grand Theft Auto V. Our results provide evidence that this video game offers a transparent and adaptable way to investigate cognitive processes with high experimental control and psychological validity. Recommendations towards the use of video game-based methodologies for future research are discussed.

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Orienteering: What relation with visuospatial abilities, wayfinding attitudes, and environment learning?

Feraco

Bonvento²,

Meneghetti

2021

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Orienteering is a sport that involves navigating. As navigation skills relate to individual visuospatial factors, it is worth examining whether practicing orienteering is associated with people's visuospatial abilities and wayfinding attitudes. A sample of 51 participants comprising three groups of 17 individuals with different orienteering expertise (experts, beginners, and controls—people that do not practice sport) completed visuospatial cognitive tasks and wayfinding attitude questionnaires, and were assessed on their everyday spatial habits and map learning. Results of Bayesian analysis showed that experts scored higher than controls in most visuospatial tasks, reported more positive wayfinding attitudes (sense of direction, knowledge of cardinal points, everyday map use), and learned better from maps. Beginners generally performed better than controls and less well than experts did. These results show that orienteering relates with individual visuospatial abilities, attitudes, spatial habits, and spatial learning. They are discussed within the frame of motor activities and spatial cognition.

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Are Wayfinding Self-efficacy and Pleasure in Exploring Related to Shortcut Finding? A Study in a Virtual Environment

Cited by 11 publications

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Tracing a Route and Finding a Shortcut: The Working Memory, Motivational, and Personality Factors Involved

Tracing a Route and Finding a Shortcut: The Working Memory, Motivational, and Personality Factors Involved

Exploring human behavior with Grand Theft Auto V: A study of assisted cognition in wayfinding

Orienteering: What relation with visuospatial abilities, wayfinding attitudes, and environment learning?

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