...Rebecca Davis; Margaret Calkins; Alla Sikorskii; Jennifer Brush; Joseph E Gaugler Abstract Background and Objectives Wayfinding can be challenging in many long-term care communities (LTCCs) due to size, poor visibility, inadequate wayfinding design, as well as cognitive impairment of some...

..., and Karen Lunsford’s approach of wayfinding—(1) worlds apart, (2) literacy in the wild, (3) ecologies and networks, and (4) transfer in writing studies, this study, inspired by the notion of affective economy and splinternet, offers a rhetorical quartet pertaining to the literary career of China-related...

... the effects of landmark presentation styles on wayfinding with overview maps in virtual environments. In addition, we want to investigate the wayfinding issues pertinent to gender difference and the effectiveness of overview maps with landmarks in virtual environments. Use of 3D virtual environments has...

... learning may be impaired when there are HPC and sensory changes due to aging or disease. Even though it is well documented that people have a decline in wayfinding ability with aging, built environments that older adults encounter are often unsupportive of wayfinding. For example, senior residential...

...This chapter on wayfinding and spatial cognition provides a literature review of the major topics in the field beginning with Tolman and Lynch, as well as directions for new research employing advances in technology. Reflecting the major emphasis in the field, the focus is on research in the built...

..., or within unfamiliar towns and cities. How did travellers plan their journeys? What aids did they use for getting to their destinations? I present some of the evidence for medieval wayfinding, and provide some initial answers to these questions. I consider the use of guides, landmarks, maps, and urban...

... that the airport terminal space accomplishes governable and orderly transit of passengers or that passengers accomplish an orderly transit through the space by drawing on the airport’s wayfinding systems, the chapter uncovers a series of actions that accomplish more or less orderly spaces, transits, passengers...

... ratings than do those where visual and locomotor access seems unhampered (R. Kaplan, 30 1985 ). It may not be surprising that notions of comfort, security, and likelihood of wayfinding would be useful predictors of scenic quality. Perhaps it is more surprising that these factors are not evident...

... is whether accuracy of direction judgments, obtained in experiments, is compatible with accuracy required in real-world wayfinding situations. Experimental and real-word situations have often been similar. Incompatibility therefore seems unlikely from the outset. However, experimental situations have...

... its obvious kinship to the area of environmental cognition, research on spatial decision making could have reflected the concern for cognitive structure central to the wayfinding literature. Second, the rationality model has increasingly been the subject of searching questions and criticism. Cracks...

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... . Environment and Behavior , 16 , 3 – 34 . Gärling , T , Book , A , & Lindberg , E ( 1986 ). Spatial orientation and wayfinding in the designed environment: A conceptual analysis and some suggestions for postoccupancy evaluation . Journal of Architectural and Planning Research , 3...

... to each other and to a more general view of action, evaluation, and cognition. We focus specifically on the linkages between the physical environment, cognitive mediators, and outcomes such as wayfinding, decision making, and other actions. We pay particular attention to how the environment and mediators...

.... Analysis of famous buildings and of homely examples introduces concepts like aesthetics, affordances, atmosphere, construction, manual action, scripts, and wayfinding, and the search for their neural substrates. It explores how evolution shaped a language-ready brain that is also architecture-ready. Case...

... and place encouraged by digital navigation technologies, this chapter analyzes the ways in which the exact opposite processes are observable: navigation technology users are developing wayfinding strategies that reframe their image of the city, alter perceptions and practices of mobility, and re-embed them...

...Oxford University Press After demonstrating that a building is a system of systems, we examine the symbolism of certain libraries. A cognitive account of wayfinding uses the Seattle Public Library to analyze getting lost...

.... There is a core difference between waymarked routes, which have become inscribed in the landscape, and personal wayfinding, where features of the landscape are used by the traveller to reach their own objective. Even when the latter are formalized in guidebooks, they 278 remain invisible, part of the information...

... , & Smith , T R ( 1990 ). Navigator: An Al-based model of human wayfinding in an urban environment . In M   Fischer , P   Nijkamp , & Y   Papageorgiou (Eds.), Spatial choices and processes (pp. 169 – 202 ). Amsterdam : Elsevier . Hägerstrand , T ( 1970 ). What about...