Adaptivity of wayfinding strategies in a multi-building ensemble: The effects of spatial structure, task requirements, and metric information

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 208-219

  Hölscher, Christoph ^a   Büchner, Simon J ^a   Meilinger, Tobias ^a,b   Strube, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptivity; Architecture; Cognition; Representation; Wayfinding strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349129687     PISSN: 02724944     EISSN: 15229610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2008.05.010     Document Type: Article

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