Wayfinding Flashcards
What type of factors are wayfinding behaviours effected by?
Environmental and human
What is environmental legibility? When did it originate?
An indication of the ease with which environments can be learned and understood by humans.
A term that expresses how easy or hard it is to learn and navigate through an environment
1960 coined by Lynch
What 3 elements (from the research field of space syntax) help us to measure EL?
Visibility
Connectivity
Layout complexity
Li and klippel: what 3 elements of wayfinding did they asses?
Wayfinding performance
Acquisition of spatial knowledge
Development of spatial awareness
Li and klippel: which of the wayfinding processes does EL predominantly have an impact on?
- Wayfinding performance
- the development of spatial awareness
What are cognitive maps?
Your mental understanding of an environment developed by observation and trial and error.
Based on the assumption that the individual seeks out and collects contextual clues
The maps contain spatial information that helps them to navigate as well as symbolism and meaning
What are the 3 aspects to individual differences that are important for wayfinding?
Perceptual capacity=gives=Ability to evaluate information in an environment
Cognitive capacity
Information processing capacity (cognitive) =gives= to produce cognitive maps and aid decision making
Previously acquire knowledge =gives= familiarity
What can wayfinding performance be defined as ? What is it measured by?
The procedures associated with the movement of a person from one place to another during wayfinding
Time
Length of route (on and off route)
How many places they found correctly
What are the 3 types ofspatial knowledge?
Landmark
Route
Survey based
How can survey based spatial knowledge be assessed?
Asking somebody to estimate the direction or distance to an unseen object
How can you test the development of someone’s spatial awareness?
Asking them to estimate their location and orientation - usually by drawing a map
Who were the main 2 groups li and klippel investigated in the library and why?
New students who had not visited the library before Library staff (not new)
Different levels of familiarity
In this context how is visibility defined?
How well a person can see their surroundings at every location
In this context how is connectivity defined?
How a possible route in an environment is related to other routes a person can make
In this context how is layout complexity defined?
The value of the number of nodes(intersections where there are more than 2 different directions)
Divided by
The number of connections (direct connection from one node to another)
