ReviewFrontiers in psychology2020
Wayfinding in Interior Environments: An Integrative Review.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Barriers and facilitators to accessing and engaging with arts-based non-pharmacological interventions for people living with dementia: A systematic review.Dementia (London, England) · 2026Pooled it
- A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of Visual Cues, Signage, and Spaced Retrieval for Wayfinding Within Long-Term Care Communities.The Gerontologist · 2025Trial
- An Indoor Accessibility Assessment Framework Based on Multimodal Sensing and Explainable Machine Learning: A Case Study of a Tactile Museum for People with Visual Impairments.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Vertex: A Semantic Graph-Based Indoor Navigation System with Vision-Language Landmark Verification.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Preschoolers' early gaze exploration in virtual preschool classrooms: a transition-based eye-tracking analysis of window views and room size.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Mobility impairment and fall concern predict wayfinding ability in persons with multiple sclerosis.Multiple sclerosis and related disorders · 2025Article
- From images to health insight: integrating MLLM, NLP, and objective Q-sorting of nursing-home built environment orientations.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Enhancing the digital adoption in healthcare built environments: a framework for a therapeutic user-based wayfinding system.Frontiers in medical technology · 2025Review
- Environmental therapy: interface design strategies for color graphics to assist navigational tasks in patients with visuospatial disorders through an analytic hierarchy process based on CIE color perception.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- A bibliometric analysis of published literature on healthcare facilities' wayfinding research from 1974 to 2020.Heliyon · 2022Review
- The principles of pedestrian route choice.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2022Review
- Mapping the Evolutions and Trends of Literature on Wayfinding in Indoor Environments.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2021Review
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Abstract
Wayfinding is an issue in complex facilities-including hospitals, airports, and office buildings-and wayfinding difficulties are associated with negative psychological and physiological consequences. In addition, since finding one's way in a building is a prerequisite for successfully using that building, wayfinding has attracted the attention of scholars and decision makers. The goal of this article is to review and synthesize the published literature on wayfinding in interior environments. A systematic search was conducted of four databases: PsychINFO, JSTOR, ProQuest, and EBSCO. A hand search was also conducted. From the initial harvest of 804 records, a total of 84 records met the inclusion criteria for full review. After several rounds of review, four broad domains were identified: (1) wayfinding cognition, (2) wayfinding behavior, (3) individual and group differences, and (4) environmental factors. These domains are used as a framework to organize the findings, and the review shows that the sub-domains most thoroughly addressed in the literature are spatial memories, floor plan configuration, landmarks, signs, and maps. This review can deepen the field's understanding of factors that contribute to interior wayfinding and can serve as a resource for decision makers and designers.
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