The ability to successfully navigate in healthcare facilities is an important goal for patients,
visitors, and staff. Despite the fundamental nature of such behavior, it is not infrequent for …

Wayfinding is an issue in complex facilities—including hospitals, airports, and office
buildings—and wayfinding difficulties are associated with negative psychological and …

The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of gender, age, level of education, and
ceiling height on cognitive processing and wayfinding, and to investigate these effects on …

Accessible tourism is a growing market within the travel industry, but little research has
focused on travel barriers for older adults who may be experiencing visual and cognitive …

The process of urban landmark-based navigation has proven to be difficult to study in a
rigorous fashion, primarily due to confounding variables and the problem of obtaining …

The lived environment is the arena where our cognitive skills, preferences, and attitudes
come together to determine our ability to interact with the world. The mechanisms through …

Wayfinding has often been seen as being about the quickest or shortest possible route
between two points (Hölscher et al 2011;; Haque et al 2006). Moreover, this process has …

How pedestrians find and choose routes in buildings is a fundamental research topic that is
immediately relevant to building design and safety. However, few studies have explored the …

Despite extensive research on navigation, it remains unclear which features of an
environment predict how difficult it will be to navigate. We analysed 478,170 trajectories from …

Background: Navigating large hospitals can be very challenging due to the functional
complexity as well as the evolving changes and expansions of such facilities. Hospital …