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2003 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Referring to Landmark or Street Information in Route Directions: What Difference Does It Make?

verfasst von : Ariane Tom, Michel Denis

Erschienen in: Spatial Information Theory. Foundations of Geographic Information Science

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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When describing routes in urban environments, speakers usually refer to both street names and visual landmarks. However, a navigational system can be designed which only refers to streets or, alternatively, only to landmarks. Does it make any difference which type of information users are provided with? The answer to this question is crucial for the design of navigational aids. We report two experiments. The first one showed that in a wayfinding task, route directions referring to streets were less effective than those referring to landmarks for guidance purposes. The second experiment showed that when people generate route directions, they tend to produce less street than landmark information. These studies provide a further illustration of the critical role of landmarks in route directions.

Metadaten
Titel
Referring to Landmark or Street Information in Route Directions: What Difference Does It Make?
verfasst von
Ariane Tom
Michel Denis
Copyright-Jahr
2003
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39923-0_24