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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.29

Assessing Perceived Route Difficulty in Environments with Different Complexity (Short Paper)

Authors: Arvid Horned, Zoe Falomir, and Kai-Florian Richter

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 315, 16th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2024)

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Today, anyone feeling lost in a city or unsure about how to navigate can use navigation services to look up routes to where they want to go. Current research investigating these services has primarily focused on how to find an appropriate route and how to best support navigation along it, and not how routes and the maps they are presented on are perceived. What makes one route look more difficult to navigate than another? And how does experience with using navigation services and maps in daily life influence how difficult a route is perceived to be? We explored these questions in a survey study where participants rated the perceived difficulty of pedestrian routes in ten different cities. The results show that routes in more complex urban environments were perceived as more complex than routes in easier environments. At least partly, perceived difficulty seems to follow earlier conceptualizations of route complexity, but open questions remain regarding the interplay of environmental structure, route properties, and the map representation.

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Arvid Horned, Zoe Falomir, and Kai-Florian Richter. Assessing Perceived Route Difficulty in Environments with Different Complexity (Short Paper). In 16th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 315, pp. 29:1-29:8, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{horned_et_al:LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.29,
  author =	{Horned, Arvid and Falomir, Zoe and Richter, Kai-Florian},
  title =	{{Assessing Perceived Route Difficulty in Environments with Different Complexity}},
  booktitle =	{16th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2024)},
  pages =	{29:1--29:8},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-330-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{315},
  editor =	{Adams, Benjamin and Griffin, Amy L. and Scheider, Simon and McKenzie, Grant},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.29},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-208444},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.29},
  annote =	{Keywords: navigation complexity, perceived difficulty, route display, spatial cognition}
}

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