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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2021.II.9
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-147680
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2021/14768/
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Mazurkiewicz, Bartosz ; Kattenbeck, Markus ; Giannopoulos, Ioannis

Navigating Your Way! Increasing the Freedom of Choice During Wayfinding

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Abstract

Using navigation assistance systems has become widespread and scholars have tried to mitigate potentially adverse effects on spatial cognition these systems may have due to the division of attention they require. In order to nudge the user to engage more with the environment, we propose a novel navigation paradigm called Free Choice Navigation balancing the number of free choices, route length and number of instructions given. We test the viability of this approach by means of an agent-based simulation for three different cities. Environmental spatial abilities and spatial confidence are the two most important modeled features of our agents. Our results are very promising: Agents could decide freely at more than 50% of all junctions. More than 90% of the agents reached their destination within an average distance of about 125% shortest path length.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{mazurkiewicz_et_al:LIPIcs.GIScience.2021.II.9,
  author =	{Mazurkiewicz, Bartosz and Kattenbeck, Markus and Giannopoulos, Ioannis},
  title =	{{Navigating Your Way! Increasing the Freedom of Choice During Wayfinding}},
  booktitle =	{11th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2021) - Part II},
  pages =	{9:1--9:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-208-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{208},
  editor =	{Janowicz, Krzysztof and Verstegen, Judith A.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2021/14768},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-147680},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2021.II.9},
  annote =	{Keywords: Agent-based Simulation, Wayfinding, Free Choice Navigation}
}

Keywords: Agent-based Simulation, Wayfinding, Free Choice Navigation
Collection: 11th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2021) - Part II
Issue Date: 2021
Date of publication: 14.09.2021

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