Not Arbitrary, Systematic! Average-Based Route Selection for Navigation Experiments

Authors Bartosz Mazurkiewicz , Markus Kattenbeck , Peter Kiefer, Ioannis Giannopoulos



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Bartosz Mazurkiewicz
  • TU Wien, Austria
Markus Kattenbeck
  • TU Wien, Austria
Peter Kiefer
  • ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Ioannis Giannopoulos
  • TU Wien, Austria

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Bartosz Mazurkiewicz, Markus Kattenbeck, Peter Kiefer, and Ioannis Giannopoulos. Not Arbitrary, Systematic! Average-Based Route Selection for Navigation Experiments. In 11th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2021) - Part I. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 177, pp. 8:1-8:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2021.I.8

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While studies on human wayfinding have seen increasing interest, the criteria for the choice of the routes used in these studies have usually not received particular attention. This paper presents a methodological framework which aims at filling this gap. Based on a thorough literature review on route choice criteria, we present an approach that supports wayfinding researchers in finding a route whose characteristics are as similar as possible to the population of all considered routes with a predefined length in a particular area. We provide evidence for the viability of our approach by means of both, synthetic and real-world data. The proposed method allows wayfinding researchers to justify their route choice decisions, and it enhances replicability of studies on human wayfinding. Furthermore, it allows to find similar routes in different geographical areas.

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  • Information systems → Geographic information systems
  • Information systems → Location based services
  • Information systems → Decision support systems
  • General and reference → Empirical studies
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  • Route Selection
  • Route Features
  • Human Wayfinding
  • Navigation
  • Experiments
  • Replicability

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