Grid patterns and cultural expectations in urban wayfinding

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

Volumn 2205, Issue , 2001, Pages 400-414

  Davies, Clare ^a   Pederson, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardinal directions; Cognitive mapping; Cross cultural psychology; Landmarks; Mental maps; Pointing tasks; Route directions; Urban navigation

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

CARDINAL DIRECTION; COGNITIVE MAPPING; CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY; LANDMARKS; MENTAL MAPS; POINTING TASKS; ROUTE DIRECTIONS; URBAN NAVIGATION;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 84937572524     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45424-1_27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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