How much information do you need? Schematic maps in wayfinding and self localisation

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

Volumn 4387 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 381-400

  Meilinger, Tobias ^a,b   Hölscher, Christoph ^a   Büchner, Simon J ^a   Brösamle, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Map; Multilevel building; Route knowledge; Schematisation; Self localization; Survey knowledge; Wayfinding

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

MULTILEVEL BUILDING; ROUTE KNOWLEDGE; SELF LOCALIZATION; SURVEY KNOWLEDGE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 38349063055     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75666-8_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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