Referring to landmark or street information in route directions: What difference does it make?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2825, Issue , 2003, Pages 362-374

  Tom, Ariane ^a   Denis, Michel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Landmarks; Route directions; Spatial cognition; Streets; Urban navigation

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION THEORY; ROADS AND STREETS;

INFORMATION USERS; LANDMARKS; NAVIGATIONAL AIDS; NAVIGATIONAL SYSTEMS; ROUTE DIRECTIONS; SPATIAL COGNITION; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN NAVIGATION;

NAVIGATION;

EID: 35248897161     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-39923-0_24     Document Type: Article

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