Pedestrian navigation aids: Information requirements and design implications

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 331-338

  May, Andrew J ^a   Ross, Tracy ^a   Bayer, Steven H ^a   Tarkiainen, Mikko J ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Design; Navigation; Pedestrian; Requirements; Wayfinding

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; DESIGN; HARDWARE;

DESIGN IMPLICATIONS; DISTANCE INFORMATION; INFORMATION REQUIREMENT; PEDESTRIAN; PEDESTRIAN NAVIGATION; REQUIREMENTS; URBAN NAVIGATION; WAY-FINDING;

NAVIGATION;

EID: 70350374164     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-003-0248-5     Document Type: Article

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