Floor Plan Connectivity Influences Wayfinding Performance in Virtual Environments

Slone, Edward; Burles, Ford; Robinson, Keith; Levy, Richard; Iaria, Giuseppe

doi:10.1177/0013916514533189

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“…When investigating environment intelligibility and legibility, the ease of visual representation should not be mistaken with simplicity. Complex environment can be as comfortable as a space with minimal visual design if aspect such as geometry, rhythm and connectivity is present (Slone et al [5]). The theory has been supported by wayfinding studies such as Mahdzar and Safari's [6] findings that strongly associated geometry with legibility due to it facilitates mental mapping process.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…But Slone et al [5] could not rule out the effect of landmark visual features on participant cognitive mapping. Instead, they suggested that their saliency could be a variable factor in future wayfinding experiments to measure their effect.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…2) The environment, which consists of many complex characteristics that can be individually focused upon or as a whole. These aspects of the environment have been subjected to test in real-life or using VR technology including; familiarity [13], [14], colour and light [15], spatial configuration [16], layout complexity [5], geometry [6]. The reason behind the focus on outdoor environment is due to the limited research studying these four factors in outdoor settings [13]- [15], [17].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There is limited research available that considers the environment itself as an information provider or a communication tool for the wayfinder to use during the process. Although some researches have questioned the effect of elements such as landmarks [3], [4] or floor connectivity [5] and geometry [6] as part of environmental legibility. Therefore, the main purpose of this paper is to: test how urban features can function as wayshowing clues to replace conventional literacy and language dependant wayfinding aids, and so minimize their disadvantages in pedestrian urban settings to provide wider opportunities to people from different cultural backgrounds and overcome language barriers.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Do We Really Need Signs? Urban Wayshowing Designed From Within the Surroundings

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2017

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Wayshowing can be defined as those designed solutions that help users (wayfinders) to get from their current location to their desired destination within urban settings. Until recently, wayshowing design has always been associated with the more traditional navigation methods such as directional signs and maps. Both tourism and/or globalization have become major elements that affect urban cities and the way they evolve. And with the push to globalize cities, the sensitivity of local identity retention is challenged. The Bristol Legible city project in Bristol, United Kingdom, is an example that demonstrates combining identity-keeping ideology and wayfinding system design. The main purposes of this paper are to: address how urban features may be used as clues to replace the literacy and language dependant wayfinding aids, and minimize their inherent exclusiveness in pedestrian urban settings to offer equal opportunities to people from different cultural background and various spoken languages. The aim is to identify which objects are considered significant enough within the surrounding environments to facilitate the user's getting from one place to another with minimal stress and in the shortest route possible. During this study, I intend to test wayfinder's decisionmaking skills, orientation skills and stress levels in real-life locating task experiments in the city of Swansea, UK, combined with a historical and architectural analysis of the city around the area in which the experiments will take place. The goal of these experiments is to identify to what extent urban features can operate without signage as wayfinding systems in pedestrian settings.

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“…Several studies have shown the ability to navigate in an unfamiliar environment is affected by the complexity of the layout (Slone et al, 2015).…”

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A Study on the Space Layout and Configuration of Shopping Malls in Relation to Pedestrian Movement Behavior - Case of UAE

Meziani

Hussien

2017

IRSPSD International

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Abstract:The research aims to understand the relationship between the popularity and attractiveness of commercial buildings, shopping malls and any relationship with visitor satisfaction. This would assist in designing new malls or commercial buildings, predict their degree of popularity, and help achieve both higher revenue resulting from increasing the number of visitors and their satisfaction, comfort and enjoyment of the space. This study will focus on the relationship between shopping mall popularity and wayfinding. Planned and unplanned visits to some specific areas inside the malls will be considered. These areas are: 1-Facilities: prayer rooms, and washrooms, etc.; 2-The largest areas in size and often with the highest number of visitors: food courts, cinemas, play areas; and 3-ATM machines. The objective of this paper is to verify three hypotheses: 1. The popularity of a mall is positively related to visitor satisfaction with wayfinding in the mall; 2. The popularity of a mall is positively related to visitor satisfaction with the location of facilities in the mall; 3. The location of facilities in a mall is positively related to visitor satisfaction with wayfinding in the mall. Surveys were conducted in the city of Abu Dhabi and the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) technique was used to verify these hypotheses.

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The relationship between mental and physical space and its impact on topographical disorientation

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Handbook of Clinical Neurology

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Floor Plan Connectivity Influences Wayfinding Performance in Virtual Environments

Cited by 47 publications

References 57 publications

Do We Really Need Signs? Urban Wayshowing Designed From Within the Surroundings

Do We Really Need Signs? Urban Wayshowing Designed From Within the Surroundings

A Study on the Space Layout and Configuration of Shopping Malls in Relation to Pedestrian Movement Behavior - Case of UAE

The relationship between mental and physical space and its impact on topographical disorientation

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