Including landmarks in routing instructions

Journal of Location Based Services

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 28-52

  Duckham, Matt ^a   Winter, Stephan ^a   Robinson, Michelle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b TELSTRA RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognitive engineering; Landmarks; Navigation; Web mapping

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE ENGINEERING; COGNITIVE ERGONOMICS; ONLINE ROUTING; WEB MAPPING; WEIGHTING MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ERGONOMICS; MAPPING;

NAVIGATION;

EID: 77952537624     PISSN: 17489725     EISSN: 17489733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17489721003785602     Document Type: Article

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