Pedestrian navigation aids: information requirements and design implications

May, Andrew; Ross, Tracy; Bayer, Steven H.; Tarkiainen, Mikko

doi:10.1007/s00779-003-0248-5

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“…Indeed, within wayfinding and navigation tasks, the use of landmarks has been found to be a key aspect [5,6], and a large amount of research has been conducted as to how landmarks are used in navigational tasks [4,7,8] with a distinct importance being found in relation to routing descriptions [6,9,10]. In particular, much research has emerged relating to pedestrian-based navigation [11][12][13][14][15][16], where the use of landmarks can be seen as highly beneficial.…”

Section: Landmarks In Navigationmentioning

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“…As well as being presented at key decision points, May et al [10] identified that it is also beneficial to provide landmarks in interim locations as a means of improving user confidence. They also state that distances and road names should not be relied upon in pedestrian navigation, though secondary information (which could be a road name) to confirm that the user has made a correct decision should be provided (i.e., "Turn left after Starbucks, onto Market Square").…”

Section: Landmarks In Navigationmentioning

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“…Though their selection methods appear to be less well formed than those of Duckham, Winter and Robinson [17], an aspect of particular interest is the data source: OpenStreetMap (OSM). The usage of OSM as a data source directly helps in relieving a challenge identified by May et al [10]. They remark that a predominant challenge when they performed their investigation was the availability of a navigable database containing information that could be used to identify landmarks.…”

Section: Characteristics and Detection Of Landmarksmentioning

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Towards a Landmark-Based Pedestrian Navigation Service Using OSM Data

Rousell

Zipf

2017

IJGI

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Abstract:With the advent of location-aware smartphones, the desire for pedestrian-based navigation services has increased. Unlike car-based services where instructions generally are comprised of distance and road names, pedestrian instructions should instead focus on the delivery of landmarks to aid in navigation. OpenStreetMap (OSM) contains a vast amount of geospatial information that can be tapped into for identifying these landmark features. This paper presents a prototype navigation service that extracts landmarks suitable for navigation instructions from the OSM dataset based on several metrics. This is coupled with a short comparison of landmark availability within OSM, differences in routes between locations with different levels of OSM completeness and a short evaluation of the suitability of the landmarks provided by the prototype. Landmark extraction is performed on a server-side service, with the instructions being delivered to a pedestrian navigation application running on an Android mobile device.

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Section: Landmarks In Navigationmentioning

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Section: Landmarks In Navigationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Towards a Landmark-Based Pedestrian Navigation Service Using OSM Data

Rousell

Zipf

2017

IJGI

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“…Yet, such aids often use methods of navigation that do not match those in common use and they do not provide the types of navigation information and cues that people usually use. May et al (2003) investigated the navigation information needed by pedestrians in a town centre and found that landmarks formed by far the most popular cue type. Other studies by Bradley and Dunlop (2002) and Burns (1997) have investigated the changes in navigation cues with age and found that landmarks still form a key part of the cue set for older people, although there were some indications that their importance may decline slightly with age.…”

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How can we best use landmarks to support older people in navigation?

Goodman

Brewster

Gray

2005

Behaviour & Information Technology

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Although landmarks are an integral part of navigation, they have rarely been used explicitly within electronic pedestrian navigation aids. We describe a two-part study into the use of landmarks in such aids, using a set of field experiments. The first part investigated whether such devices can be effective for older adults (over 60 years old), who might particularly benefit from them due to declines in sensory, cognitive and motor abilities. The second part compared the effectiveness of different methods of presenting landmark information. We show that a pedestrian navigation aid based around landmarks is particularly useful for older people and demonstrate that text, speech and photographs are all effective ways of presenting landmark information, although speech on its own has some drawbacks. We found that different people prefer information to be presented in different modalities, indicating a need for personalisation, although multimodality may also help to address this issue.

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“…Mobile devices have been used to enhance the presentation of different kinds of spatial information, such as landmarks (Sefelin et al 2005;Goodman et al 2004;May et al 2003), route information (Kray et al 2003;Narzt et al 2003;Malaka and Zipf 2000), as well as maps. However, these designs usually focus on just one particular type of spatial information, and do not consider their integration, which is important to the construction of cognitive maps.…”

Section: Using Mobile Devices To Support Navigationmentioning

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M2S maps: supporting real-world navigation with mobile VR

Zhang

2006

Virtual Reality

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Mobile devices are becoming increasingly integrated into our society. In addition to entertaining people with applications like pervasive games, mobile devices can also help to address cognitive challenges people face in the real world. This paper, by drawing on research findings from cognitive psychology and geography, explores a design to use mobile VR to help people overcome one cognitive barrier in navigation, which is to establish the correspondence between 2D spatial information found in maps and 3D entities they perceive from the real world. The design offers users multi-format, multi-scale, and semantic (M 2 S) maps, ranging from 2D maps to 3D immersive environments, and helps users to connect 2D maps to the real world through 3D environments which are equipped with semantic representation and animation techniques. Consequently, users can apply various kinds of spatial knowledge, 2D or 3D, in understanding the real world as well as assisting in navigation. This research enhances the design repertoire of mobile VR, and suggests a way to integrate virtual environments into people's real-world life by examining the cognitive implications of 3D models on users' activities.

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Pedestrian navigation aids: information requirements and design implications

Cited by 239 publications

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Towards a Landmark-Based Pedestrian Navigation Service Using OSM Data

Towards a Landmark-Based Pedestrian Navigation Service Using OSM Data

How can we best use landmarks to support older people in navigation?

M2S maps: supporting real-world navigation with mobile VR

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