A wayfinding aid to increase navigator independence

Journal of Spatial Information Science

Volumn 3, Issue 2011, 2011, Pages 103-122

  Waters, Wilfred ^a   Winter, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dual orientation strategy; Geographic orientation; Landmarks; Navigation; Piloting; Route instructions; Sense of direction; Wayfinding aids; Wayfinding strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861135490     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1948660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5311/JOSIS.2011.3.43     Document Type: Article

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