When and why are visual landmarks used in giving directions?

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

Volumn 2205, Issue , 2001, Pages 292-305

  Michon, Pierre Emmanuel ^a   Denis, Michel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Landmarks; Navigation; Route directions; Spatial cognition; Urban environment

Indexed keywords

NAVIGATION; URBAN PLANNING;

COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS; LANDMARKS; MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS; ROUTE DIRECTIONS; SEQUENCE OF ACTIONS; SPATIAL COGNITION; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; VISUAL LANDMARKS;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 84937561489     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45424-1_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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