A sociocybernetic approach to wayfinding map studies: The systems of people-map-space interactions

Kybernetes

Volumn 36, Issue 9-10, 2007, Pages 1406-1421

  Kueh, Christopher Kian Teck ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cybernetics; Design; Feedback; Information research; Research; Sociocybernetics

Indexed keywords

CYBERNETICS; DESIGN; FEEDBACK; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; RESEARCH;

ACTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; INFORMATION RESEARCH; INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS; RESEARCH FRAMEWORKS; SOCIOCYBERNETICS; SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 36448989001     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920710827382     Document Type: Article

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