Influence of geometry and objects on local route choices during wayfinding

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

Volumn 6222 LNAI, Issue , 2010, Pages 41-53

  Frankenstein, Julia ^a   Büchner, Simon J ^a   Tenbrink, Thora ^a   Hölscher, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

geometry; indoor navigation; landmarks; spatial decision making; virtual environment

Indexed keywords

CURRENT LINES; INDOOR NAVIGATION; LANDMARKS; LONG LINE; MULTIPLE-PATH; ROUTE CHOICE; SPATIAL DECISION MAKING; STREET NETWORK; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; WAY-FINDING; WAYFINDERS;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; NAVIGATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 77957024466     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14749-4_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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