Paper Info
Title
Understanding the Effect of the Combination of Navigation Tools in Learning Spatial Knowledge.
Abstract
Spatial knowledge about the environment often helps people accomplish their navigation and wayfinding tasks more efficiently. Off-the-shelf mobile navigation applications often focus on guiding people to go between two locations, ignoring the importance of learning spatial knowledge. Drawing on theories and findings from the area of learning spatial knowledge, we investigated how the background reference frames (RF) and navigational cues can be combined in navigation applications to help people acquire better spatial (route and survey) knowledge. We conducted two user studies, where participants used our custom-designed applications to navigate in an indoor location. We found that having more navigational cues in a navigation application does not always assist users in acquiring better spatial knowledge; rather, these cues can be distracting in some specific setups. Users can acquire better spatial knowledge only when the navigational cues complement each other in the interface design. We discussed the implications of designing navigation interfaces that can assist users in learning spatial knowledge by combining navigational elements in a complimentary way.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3357251.3357582
SUI '19: Symposium on Spatial User Interaction New Orleans LA USA October, 2019
Keywords
Field
DocType
Spatial learning,interface design,navigational cues,frame of references,allocentric and egocentric encoding
Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Navigational instrument,Spatial knowledge
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6975-6
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sanorita Dey142.75
Wai-Tat Fu279673.04
Karrie Karahalios31674174.11