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Collaborative Wayfinding Under Distributed Spatial Knowledge (Short Paper)

Authors Panagiotis Mavros , Saskia Kuliga , Ed Manley , Hilal Rohaidi Fitri, Michael Joos, Christoph Hölscher

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  • Applied computing → Psychology
  • General and reference → Experimentation
  • General and reference → Empirical studies
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  • navigation
  • wayfinding
  • collaboration
  • dyad
  • online

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Abstract

In many everyday situations, two or more people navigate collaboratively but their spatial knowledge does not necessarily overlap. However, most research to date, has investigated social wayfinding under either 1-sided or fully shared spatial information. Here, we present the pilot experiment of a novel, computerised, non-verbal experimental paradigm to study collaborative wayfinding under the face of spatial information uncertainty. Participants (N=32) learned two different neighbourhoods individually, and then navigated together as dyads (D=16), from one neighbourhood to the other. Our pilot results reveal that overall participants share navigational control, but are in control more when the task leads them to a familiar destination. We discuss the effects of spatial ability and motivation to lead, as well as the outlook of the paradigm.

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Panagiotis Mavros, Saskia Kuliga, Ed Manley, Hilal Rohaidi Fitri, Michael Joos, and Christoph Hölscher. Collaborative Wayfinding Under Distributed Spatial Knowledge (Short Paper). In 15th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 240, pp. 25:1-25:10, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2022.25

Author Details

Panagiotis Mavros
  • Singapore-ETH Centre, Future Cities Laboratory, CREATE campus, 1 CREATE Way, #06-01 CREATE Tower, 138602, Singapore
Saskia Kuliga
  • Singapore-ETH Centre, Future Cities Laboratory, CREATE campus, 1 CREATE Way, #06-01 CREATE Tower, 138602, Singapore
  • German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Witten site and Faculty of Health, University of Witten/Herdecke, 58453 Witten, Germany
Ed Manley
  • School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K.
Hilal Rohaidi Fitri
  • Singapore-ETH Centre, Future Cities Laboratory, CREATE campus, 1 CREATE Way, #06-01 CREATE Tower, 138602, Singapore
Michael Joos
  • Singapore-ETH Centre, Future Cities Laboratory, CREATE campus, 1 CREATE Way, #06-01 CREATE Tower, 138602, Singapore
Christoph Hölscher
  • Chair of Cognitive Science, D-GESS, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
  • Singapore-ETH Centre, Future Cities Laboratory, CREATE campus, 1 CREATE Way, #06-01 CREATE Tower, 138602, Singapore

Funding

The research was partly conducted at the Future Cities Laboratory at the Singapore-ETH Centre, which was established collaboratively between ETH Zurich and the National Research Foundation Singapore (NRF) under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) programme. The research was also supported by the Chair of Cognitive Science, ETH Zürich. S. Kuliga at the time of preparing the study held a DAAD Postdoc Fellowship at Singapore-ETH Centre and currently is affiliated at DZNE Witten / University of Witten/Herdecke.

Acknowledgements

We are grateful for the advice of Dr Iva Barisic on social wayfinding, and the support of the ETH Zürich Decision Science Lab team: Stefan Wehrli, Lea Imhof, and Salome Egli.

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