ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019
Wayfinding as a Social Activity.
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- Enhancing the digital adoption in healthcare built environments: a framework for a therapeutic user-based wayfinding system.Frontiers in medical technology · 2025Review
- Neuroadaptive mobile geographic information displays: an emerging cartographic research frontier.International journal of cartography · 2025Article
- Remembering routes: confronting spatial behaviours and sketch maps in individual and collective contexts.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Age- and sex-related differences in landmark recall following a virtual spatial navigation task.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Article
- Development of a self-report measure of GPS uses and its relationship with environmental knowledge and self-efficacy and pleasure in exploring.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2024Article
- Towards neuroadaptive navigation assistance to reduce spatial de-skilling.Cognitive processing · 2024Article
- Wayfinding in pairs: comparing the planning and navigation performance of dyads and individuals in a real-world environment.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2024Article
- On the Move: Correlation of Impaired Mobility with Spatial Navigation Ability in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- The effect of negative emotion processing on spatial navigation: an experimental study using virtual reality.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Individual Differences and Skill Training in Cognitive Mapping: How and Why People Differ.Topics in cognitive science · 2023Article
- Informal STEM learning: Examples from everyday spatial behaviors.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- A bibliometric analysis of published literature on healthcare facilities' wayfinding research from 1974 to 2020.Heliyon · 2022Review
- Uncertainty promotes information-seeking actions, but what information?Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2020Review
- The interaction between map complexity and crowd movement on navigation decisions in virtual reality.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
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Abstract
We discuss the important, but greatly under-researched, topic of the social aspects of human wayfinding during navigation. Wayfinding represents the planning and decision-making component of navigation and is arguably among the most common, real-world domains of both individual and group-level decision making. We highlight the myriad ways that wayfinding by people is not a solitary psychological process but is influenced by the actions of other people, even by their mere presence. We also present a novel and comprehensive framework for classifying wayfinding in complex environments that incorporates the influence of other people. This classification builds upon the premises of previous wayfinding taxonomies and is further structured into four parts based upon (1) the nature of the interaction between the actors and (2) the time frame in which the interaction takes place. We highlight gaps in our current understanding of social wayfinding and outline future research opportunities.
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