From knowledge to words to wayfinding: Issues in the production and comprehension of route directions

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

Volumn 1329, Issue , 1997, Pages 363-372

  Allen, Gary L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

COMPONENT ANALYSIS; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; ROUTE DESCRIPTIONS; ROUTE DIRECTIONS; TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION; VERBAL INFORMATION; WAY-FINDING; WAYFINDING TASKS;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 84948947627     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-63623-4_61     Document Type: Conference Paper

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