A formal model of the process of wayfinding in built environments

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

Volumn 1661, Issue , 1999, Pages 381-400

  Raubal, Martin ^a   Worboys, Michael ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affordances; Graphs; Image schemata; Knowledge frames; Logic; Spatial reasoning; Wayfinding

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CIRCUITS; FORMAL LOGIC; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE;

AFFORDANCES; GRAPHS; IMAGE SCHEMATA; KNOWLEDGE FRAME; LOGIC; SPATIAL REASONING; WAY-FINDING;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 84957696506     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48384-5_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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