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Functional Scales in Assisted Wayfinding (Short Paper) Löwen, Heinrich Krukar, Jakub Schwering, Angela navigation wayfinding support orientation information scale GPS-based navigation systems are widely used to get wayfinding assistance. Current navigation systems incorporate different map scales for presenting wayfinding instructions, however, the selection of scale is not supported by psychological findings. Different tasks of the users such as the identification of the next decision point or the orientation within the environment might be supported best at particular scales. We propose a new conceptual distinction of functional scales with respect to their role in supporting wayfinding and orientation. We suggest that these functional scales can have a benefit for supporting wayfinding and orientation if used for providing wayfinding instructions. This we aim to empirically evaluate in future work. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Heinrich Löwen and Jakub Krukar and Angela Schwering 2019 Is Part Of LIPIcs, Volume 142, 14th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2019) InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2019.3 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-110953 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2019.3 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode