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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2019.3

Functional Scales in Assisted Wayfinding (Short Paper)

Authors: Heinrich Löwen, Jakub Krukar, and Angela Schwering

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 142, 14th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2019)

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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.

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Heinrich Löwen, Jakub Krukar, and Angela Schwering. Functional Scales in Assisted Wayfinding (Short Paper). In 14th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 142, pp. 3:1-3:7, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)

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@InProceedings{lowen_et_al:LIPIcs.COSIT.2019.3,
  author =	{L\"{o}wen, Heinrich and Krukar, Jakub and Schwering, Angela},
  title =	{{Functional Scales in Assisted Wayfinding}},
  booktitle =	{14th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2019)},
  pages =	{3:1--3:7},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-115-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{142},
  editor =	{Timpf, Sabine and Schlieder, Christoph and Kattenbeck, Markus and Ludwig, Bernd and Stewart, Kathleen},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2019.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-110953},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2019.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: navigation, wayfinding support, orientation information, scale}
}

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