Wayfinding and Navigation

In Think-Aloud-Protocol, participant is asked to verbalise their thoughts as they navigate.

It is possible to get to your destination from memory even if you don't have survey knowledge of the environment.

Indoor and Outdoor wayfinding strategies are practically identical.

Space Syntax is a method based on modelling Agents and the theory of the "Image of the City".

All routing algorithms compute all possible paths from Start to Destination.

Virtual Reality is a perfect simulation of real-life wayfinding.

It is unclear why gender effects in some wayfinding experiments exist.

People mentally represent space as a "map in the head".

When navigating from memory, people always try to find the shortest route to their destination.

Route knowledge contains the memory of the sequence of decision points.

Eye Tracking cannot be used in wayfinding experiments because people move their head too much.

All females are worse navigators than males.

Arc Flags algorithms divide space into regions in the pre-computation phase.

People who have low spatial abilities cannot effectively navigate in day-to-day life.

In "Central Point Strategy" participants always look for the geometric center of the building/city.

The type of navigation support app has no impact on user's spatial learning.

Santa Barbara Sense of Direction measures objective navigation skills.

People acquire some spatial information through direct experience in the environment.

Transit Node algorithms precompute shortest paths between access nodes.