Ease Wayfinding

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

Zhang and Park assessed behavior in underground malls.

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

Miola and teammates set out to better understand how the form of a place influences the ease with which we learn its spatial information. 

Moving from one place to another can be a pleasant, positive experience, or not.  Neuroscientists have comprehensively investigated how architecture, interior design, and signage can support agreeable, low stress journeys toward our intended destinations, by keeping us from getting lost, etc.
 

Vaez and colleagues studied how people using different wayfinding tools traveled through a place they had never been before.

Corridor length, turns, and more relevant

Moving people, literally, with light

Laski and colleagues wanted to know more about how dynamic retail lighting could influence shopping behavior. 

Finding our way from one place to another can be a pleasant, upbeat experience, or not.  Cognitive and other scientists have comprehensively investigated how architecture, interior design, and signage can support agreeable, low stress journeys to our intended destinations.