Taxonomy of human wayfinding tasks: A knowledge-based approach

Spatial Cognition and Computation

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 152-165

  Wiener, Jan M ^a   Büchner, Simon J ^a   Hölscher, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Navigation; Taxonomy; Wayfinding

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE COMPONENTS; COGNITIVE PROCESS; EXTERNAL CONSTRAINTS; KNOWLEDGE-BASED APPROACH; SPATIAL KNOWLEDGE; STRUCTURAL COMPONENT; WAY-FINDING; WAYFINDING TASKS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION;

TAXONOMIES;

EID: 84885894192     PISSN: 13875868     EISSN: 15427633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13875860902906496     Document Type: Article

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