Overcoming challenges in developing more usable pedestrian navigation systems

Cartography and Geographic Information Science

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 189-207

  Delikostidis, Ioannis ^a   Van Elzakker, Corné P J M ^b   Kraak, Menno Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

landmarks; pedestrian navigation; usability evaluation; User centered design

Indexed keywords

NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

LANDMARKS; MULTI PATH ROUTING; PEDESTRIAN NAVIGATION; PEDESTRIAN NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH PROTOTYPE; SPATIAL INTERACTION; USABILITY EVALUATION; USER CENTERED DESIGN(UCD);

USER CENTERED DESIGN;

LAND EVALUATION; MAPPING METHOD; METHODOLOGY; NAVIGATION; PEDESTRIAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; RESEARCH METHOD; ROUTING; VISIBILITY;

EID: 84927558436     PISSN: 15230406     EISSN: 15450465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2015.1031180     Document Type: Article

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