Golab, Antonia; Kattenbeck, Markus; Sarlas, Georgios; Giannopoulos, Ioannis It's also about timing! When do pedestrians want to receive navigation instructions (Journal Article) In: Spatial Cognition & Computation, vol. 0, no. 0, pp. 1-33, 2021. @article{geoinfo21timing,
title = {It's also about timing! When do pedestrians want to receive navigation instructions},
author = {Antonia Golab and Markus Kattenbeck and Georgios Sarlas and Ioannis Giannopoulos},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/13875868.2021.1942474},
doi = {10.1080/13875868.2021.1942474},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
urldate = {2021-01-01},
journal = {Spatial Cognition & Computation},
volume = {0},
number = {0},
pages = {1-33},
publisher = {Taylor & Francis},
abstract = {Despite the increased research interest in wayfinding assistance systems, research on the appropriate point in time or space to automatically present a route instruction remains a desideratum. We address this research gap by reporting on the results of an outdoor, within-subject design wayfinding study (N=52). Participants walked two different routes for which they requested spoken, landmark-based turn-by-turn route instructions. By means of a survival analysis, we model the points in space at which participants issue such requests, considering personal, environmental, route- and trial-related variables. We reveal different landcover classes (e.g., densely built-up areas) and personal variables (e.g., egocentric orientation and age) to be important, discuss potential reasons for their impact and derive open research questions.},
keywords = {instructions, modeling, navigation, timing},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Despite the increased research interest in wayfinding assistance systems, research on the appropriate point in time or space to automatically present a route instruction remains a desideratum. We address this research gap by reporting on the results of an outdoor, within-subject design wayfinding study (N=52). Participants walked two different routes for which they requested spoken, landmark-based turn-by-turn route instructions. By means of a survival analysis, we model the points in space at which participants issue such requests, considering personal, environmental, route- and trial-related variables. We reveal different landcover classes (e.g., densely built-up areas) and personal variables (e.g., egocentric orientation and age) to be important, discuss potential reasons for their impact and derive open research questions. |