TY - GEN
T1 - Guide me through somewhere important
T2 - 23rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2015
AU - Takemiya, Makoto
AU - Ishikawa, Toru
AU - He, Gengen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright 2015 ACM.
PY - 2015/11/3
Y1 - 2015/11/3
N2 - People often work together to collaboratively navigate environments. Unfortunately, people make mistakes when giving directions to others, which can be especially troublesome when giving directions via a cell phone to a partner that cannot be physically seen. To facilitate collaborative navigation between spatially separated partners, contemporary navigational aids provide information about important landmarks and decision points in an environment. To learn more about what kinds of mistakes people make in navigating and the problems they have in giving and receiving route directions, this article presents an empirical study on dynamic, collaborative wayfinding, which looked at decision points where wayfinders made navigational errors. We found metrics rating the salience of decision points in an environment that correlate with where people tended to make mistakes in navigation, and argue that navigational aids could highlight these points to wayfinders so that they can pay special attention when giving directions traversing these points. We finish by outlining how the lessons learned in this study can be applied to real-time navigational aids.
AB - People often work together to collaboratively navigate environments. Unfortunately, people make mistakes when giving directions to others, which can be especially troublesome when giving directions via a cell phone to a partner that cannot be physically seen. To facilitate collaborative navigation between spatially separated partners, contemporary navigational aids provide information about important landmarks and decision points in an environment. To learn more about what kinds of mistakes people make in navigating and the problems they have in giving and receiving route directions, this article presents an empirical study on dynamic, collaborative wayfinding, which looked at decision points where wayfinders made navigational errors. We found metrics rating the salience of decision points in an environment that correlate with where people tended to make mistakes in navigation, and argue that navigational aids could highlight these points to wayfinders so that they can pay special attention when giving directions traversing these points. We finish by outlining how the lessons learned in this study can be applied to real-time navigational aids.
KW - Geospatial information
KW - Human spatial cognition
KW - Location-based services
KW - Navigational AIDS
KW - Real-time applications
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84961209385&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2820783.2820861
DO - 10.1145/2820783.2820861
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84961209385
T3 - GIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
BT - 23rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2015
A2 - Huang, Yan
A2 - Ali, Mohamed
A2 - Sankaranarayanan, Jagan
A2 - Renz, Matthias
A2 - Gertz, Michael
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 3 November 2015 through 6 November 2015
ER -
