Selection of salient features for route directions

Spatial Cognition and Computation

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 113-136

  Nothegger, Clemens ^a   Winter, Stephan ^b   Raubal, Martin ^c  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Landmarks; Route directions; Salience; Wayfinding

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE WORKLOADS; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; LANDMARKS; POINTS OF INTEREST; ROUTE DIRECTIONS; SALIENCE; SALIENT FEATURES; WAY-FINDING;

SURVEYS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 33646023511     PISSN: 13875868     EISSN: 15427633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15427633scc0402_1     Document Type: Article

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