Individual differences and tourist wayfinding behaviours

18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM 2009 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1272-1278

  Xia, J ^a   Packer, D ^b   Dong, C ^c  

^a Department of Spatial Sciences ^*

^b Learning Centre

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decision making process; Individual differences; Tourist; Wayfinding

Indexed keywords

STATISTICAL TESTS;

CHI-SQUARE TESTS; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; PHYSICAL MOVEMENTS; SHORTEST PATH STRATEGIES; VEGETATION TYPE; VICTORIA , AUSTRALIA; WAY-FINDING SYSTEMS; WAYFINDING STRATEGY;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 85086243818     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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