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Wayfinding with Sensory Challenges

Keeping everyone on the right route

Helping People Stay “On Track” (08-01-22)

Qi, Lu, and Chen’s research confirms the wayfinding-related findings of previous studies; being able to see the outdoors as we walk inside a building helps us keep track of where we are and find our way to a desired location.  They report that “General hospitals in China always present significant wayfinding problems due to their sizes and complexity. Poor wayfinding often leads to a frustrating and stressful user experience. . . . We conducted an experiment in which 117 college students, aged 18–33 . . . performed two tasks in virtual reality environments of outpatient clinics. . . .

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Growing Up Wayfinding (04-13-22)

Coutrot and colleagues set out to learn more about how where we grew up influences our sense of direction; what they’ve learned may help explain previously baffling programming research findings, for example.  The Coutrot-lead team report that “how the environment in which one grew up affects later cognitive abilities remains poorly understood. Here we used a cognitive task embedded in a video game to measure non-verbal spatial navigation ability in 397,162 people from 38 countries across the world.

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Green Views and Wayfinding (02-25-22)

Jiang and colleagues have found, via a study using immersive virtual environment (IVE) techniques, that views of green spaces through windows can make it easier to move from one part of a building to another effectively and efficiently;  their findings are readily applicable to non-healthcare space types.  The team reports that “Participants’ wayfinding performances were interpreted using several indicators, including task completion, duration, walking distance, stop, sign-viewing, and route selection. . . .

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Finding Ways to Support Finding Our Way

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Humans can get lost and that’s a bad thing.  A lost human is a stressed human, one whose precious mental resources are being gobbled up by efforts to navigate from one place to another. Neuroscientists have comprehensively investigated how architecture, interior design, and signage can support agreeable, low stress journeys toward our intended destinations.
 

Healthcare Wayfinding

Keeping stressed people "on track"

Wayfinding and Similarity (11-16-21)

Researchers have investigated why we get lost in places that are similar to other areas we’re familiar with. 

Traveling Through Cities (10-25-21)

Bongiorno and colleagues set out to learn more about how people find their way through cities.

Traveling Through Underground Malls (07-07-21)

Zhang and Park assessed behavior in underground malls.

Navigating, With and Without GPS (07-06-21)

Heft, Schwimmer, and Edmunds studied the implications of using visual navigation systems, such as GPS.

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