Landmarks’ use in speech map navigation tasks

Roger, Morgane; Bonnardel, Nathalie; Bigot, Ludovic Le

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2010.12.003

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“…In this paper, the experimental tasks were to recognize paths that participants had passed through. The navigational efficiency was measured by recording the path-recognition time of users [15]. The cognitive load refers to the total amount of cognitive resources required for processing information in cognitive activities.…”

Section: Measuring the Navigational Efficiency And The Cognitive Loadmentioning

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Assessing the Influence of Landmarks and Paths on the Navigational Efficiency and the Cognitive Load of Indoor Maps

Hao

Xin

Zhang

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IJGI

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The aim of this study was to investigate whether different expressions of landmarks and paths have different influences on the navigational efficiency and the cognitive load of indoor maps. The study tested 80 subjects by indoor path discovery experiments and measured their cognitive loads with the Cooper–Harper scale. According to the results, we extracted some key landmarks from all landmarks of the experimental indoor map and evaluated the saliency degree of each path. Then, the study tested subjects with four different types of experimental indoor maps by path-recognition tasks. The results showed that maps with key landmarks are more effective in terms of navigation than those with full landmarks, but there were no significant differences between their cognitive loads. Maps with highlighted paths are more effective in terms of navigation, and their cognitive loads are much lower than those without highlighted paths. In addition, this study found that women's cognitive loads were more affected by key landmarks compared with men’s, while highlighted paths had no significant differences in terms of navigational efficiency and the cognitive load between males and females. Implications of these results with respect to the optimization strategies of indoor map designs are discussed.

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Section: Measuring the Navigational Efficiency And The Cognitive Loadmentioning

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Assessing the Influence of Landmarks and Paths on the Navigational Efficiency and the Cognitive Load of Indoor Maps

Hao

Xin

Zhang

et al. 2020

IJGI

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“…There are other ways of imagining future users and usages. The Wizard-of-Oz technique can help to elicit users' needs and understand their behavior when using the "future" product (see, for instance, [40]). Other interactive simulations can be based on media such as CAD simulations or virtual reality, which aim to insert users in a potentially realistic environment.…”

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“…User-centered design methods can help designers understand users' expectations, needs and limitations, and take them into consideration during the design process. They include the "personas" method [16,38], ergonomic recommendations (e.g., [36]), and Ergonomic Criteria [40]. Such user-centered design methods have undeniable benefits in terms of taking users into account, but when design situations require greater creativity, they may make it harder for designers to imagine and conceive future products.…”

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Designing future products: what difficulties do designers encounter and how can their creative process be supported?

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To remain competitive, companies must regularly offer new products to consumers. A major challenge for designers is therefore to come up with design solutions and define products that are both new and adapted to future users and usages. Although classic methods and ergonomic recommendations are useful in most run-of-the-mill design contexts, they are of limited benefit when the design situation requires greater creativity. This paper therefore addresses issues related to product design by pursuing a triple objective: (1) highlight the difficulties encountered by designers in imagining and conceiving new products, (2) find out which conditions could help designers come up with creative ideas for innovative products, and (3) suggest methods and tools to support designers' creative process and help them take other stakeholders' needs and expectations into consideration.

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“…The reason behind the focus on outdoor environment is due to the limited research studying these four factors in outdoor settings [13]- [15], [17]. 4) The user wayfinding process strategies [3], [17].…”

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

Alotaishan¹

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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Landmarks’ use in speech map navigation tasks

Cited by 13 publications

References 23 publications

Assessing the Influence of Landmarks and Paths on the Navigational Efficiency and the Cognitive Load of Indoor Maps

Assessing the Influence of Landmarks and Paths on the Navigational Efficiency and the Cognitive Load of Indoor Maps

Designing future products: what difficulties do designers encounter and how can their creative process be supported?

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

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