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A User-Centred Approach To Effective Wayfinding Map Design : Integrating Theory, Practice And User Participation. (Dissertation), Christopher Kueh

Christopher Kueh

This thesis develops a unified theoretical framework for the design of effective wayfinding maps for city and town environments. The framework is based on user-centred approaches. It integrates theories and perspectives from the disciplines of cartography, architecture, cognitive science, graphic/information/communication design, via constructivism and cybernetics. Disciplines such as cartography, geography, cognitive science, and spatial visualisation technology are conceptualising theories and developing new methods of visualising the built environment, while graphic designers, information designers, communication designers, and individual business (such as shop owners and hotels) are the major producers of current wayfinding maps. Theoretical concerns from the academic disciplines are not …