Guide me through somewhere important: Decision-point salience and collaborative navigation

Makoto Takemiya, Toru Ishikawa, Gengen He

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication23rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2015
EditorsYan Huang, Mohamed Ali, Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Matthias Renz, Michael Gertz
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)9781450339674
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 3 Nov 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event23rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2015 - Seattle, United States
Duration: 3 Nov 20156 Nov 2015

Publication series

NameGIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
Volume03-06-November-2015

Conference

Conference23rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySeattle
Period3/11/156/11/15

Keywords

  • Geospatial information
  • Human spatial cognition
  • Location-based services
  • Navigational AIDS
  • Real-time applications

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Modelling and Simulation
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Information Systems

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