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Wayfinding And Navigation Research For Sustainable Transport, Stephan Winter
Wayfinding And Navigation Research For Sustainable Transport, Stephan Winter
Journal of Spatial Information Science
Spatial information science contributes to the foundations of sustainable transport development. This article focuses especially on the role that research on human wayfinding and navigation plays when it comes to designing digital connectivity and autonomy in urban transport.
An Algorithm For The Selection Of Route Dependent Orientation Information, Heinrich Loewen, Angela Schwering
An Algorithm For The Selection Of Route Dependent Orientation Information, Heinrich Loewen, Angela Schwering
Journal of Spatial Information Science
Landmarks are important features of spatial cognition and are naturally included in human route descriptions. In the past algorithms were developed to select the most salient landmarks at decision points and automatically incorporate them in route instructions. Moreover, it was shown that human route descriptions contain a significant amount of orientation information, which support the users to orient themselves regarding known environmental information, and it was shown that orientation information support the acquisition of survey knowledge. Thus, there is a need to extend the landmarks selection to automatically select orientation information. In this work, we present an algorithm for the …
Sailing: Cognition, Action, Communication, Thora Tenbrink, Frank Dylla
Sailing: Cognition, Action, Communication, Thora Tenbrink, Frank Dylla
Journal of Spatial Information Science
How do humans perceive and think about space, and how can this be represented adequately? For everyday activities such as locating objects or places, route planning, and the like, many insights have been gained over the past few decades, feeding into theories of spatial cognition and frameworks for spatial information science. In this paper, we explore sailing as a more specialized domain that has not yet been considered in this way, but has a lot to offer precisely because of its peculiarities. Sailing involves ways of thinking about space that are not normally required (or even acquired) in everyday life. …
Affordance-Based Individuation Of Junctions In Open Street Map, Simon Scheider, Jörg Possin
Affordance-Based Individuation Of Junctions In Open Street Map, Simon Scheider, Jörg Possin
Journal of Spatial Information Science
We propose an algorithm that can be used to identify automatically the subset of street segments of a road network map that corresponds to a junction. The main idea is to use turn-compliant locomotion affordances i.e. restricted patterns of supported movement in order to specify junctions independently of their data representation and in order to motivate tractable individuation and classification strategies. We argue that common approaches based solely on geometry or topology of the street segment graph are useful but insufficient proxies. They miss certain turn restrictions essential to junctions. From a computational viewpoint the main challenge of affordance-based individuation …
Semantic Trajectory Compression: Representing Urban Movement In A Nutshell, Kai-Florian Richter, Falko Schmid, Patrick Laube
Semantic Trajectory Compression: Representing Urban Movement In A Nutshell, Kai-Florian Richter, Falko Schmid, Patrick Laube
Journal of Spatial Information Science
There is an increasing number of rapidly growing repositories capturing the movement of people in space-time. Movement trajectory compression becomes an obvious necessity for coping with such growing data volumes. This paper introduces the concept of semantic trajectory compression (STC). STC allows for substantially compressing trajectory data with acceptable information loss. It exploits that human urban mobility typically occurs in transportation networks that define a geographic context for the movement. In STC a semantic representation of the trajectory that consists of reference points localized in a transportation network replaces raw highly redundant position information (e.g. from GPS receivers). An experimental …
A Wayfinding Aid To Increase Navigator Independence, Wilfred Waters, Stephan Winter
A Wayfinding Aid To Increase Navigator Independence, Wilfred Waters, Stephan Winter
Journal of Spatial Information Science
Wayfinding aids are of great benefit because users do not have to rely on their learned geographic knowledge or orientation skills alone for successful navigation. Additionally cognitive resources usually captured by this activity can be spent elsewhere. A challenge however remains for wayfinding aid developers. Due to the automation of wayfinding aids navigator independence may be decreasing via the use of these aids. In order to address this wayfinding aids might be improved additionally to perform a training role. Since the most versatile wayfinders appear to deploy a dual strategy for geographic orientation it is proposed that wayfinding aids be …
This Is The Tricky Part: When Directions Become Difficult, Stephen Hirtle, Kai-Florian Richter, Samvith Srinivas, Robert Firth
This Is The Tricky Part: When Directions Become Difficult, Stephen Hirtle, Kai-Florian Richter, Samvith Srinivas, Robert Firth
Journal of Spatial Information Science
Automated route guidance systems, both web-based systems and en-route systems, have become commonplace in recent years. These systems often replace human-generated directions, which are often incomplete, vague, or in error. However, human-generated directions have the ability to differentiate between easy and complex steps through language in a way that is more difficult in automated systems. This article examines a set of human-generated verbal directions to better understand why some parts of directions are perceived as being more difficult than the remaining steps. Insights from this analysis will lead to recommendations to improve the next generation of automated route guidance systems.