[HTML][HTML] Development and evaluation of a VR research tool to study wayfinding behaviour in a multi-story building

Y Feng, DC Duives, SP Hoogendoorn - Safety science, 2022 - Elsevier
Although understanding wayfinding behaviour in complex buildings is important to ensure
pedestrian safety, the state of the art predominantly investigated pedestrian movement in …

[HTML][HTML] Visualizing a new sustainable world: Toward the next generation of virtual reality in the built environment

D Nikolić, J Whyte - Buildings, 2021 - mdpi.com
What is the future of virtual reality (VR) in the built environment? As work becomes
increasingly distributed across remote and hybrid forms of organizing as a result of the …

Virtual Reality for Spatial Planning and Emergency Situations: Challenges and Solution Directions

R Wiltenburg, FR Mendoza, W Hurst, B Tekinerdogan - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
The notion of the smart city involves embedding Industry 4.0 technologies to improve the
lives of inhabitants in urban environments. Within this context, smart city data layers (SCDLs) …

Research needs for enhancing pre-occupancy evaluation of buildings

FS Nazeer, I Kamardeen, A Hasan - Built Environment Project and …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Many buildings fail to meet user expectations, causing a performance gap. Pre-
occupancy evaluation (PrOE) is believed to have the potential to close the gap. It enables …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing wayfinding performance in existing healthcare facilities using virtual reality environments to revise the distribution of way-showing devices

A Al-Sharaa, M Adam, AS Amer Nordin, A Alhasan… - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
Wayfinding is the process of navigating the environment by using the available
environmental cues. The issue of wayfinding difficulty in large healthcare facilities has …

Comparing spatial navigation in a virtual environment vs. an identical real environment across the adult lifespan

S Kalantari, A Mostafavi, TB Xu, AS Lee… - Computers in Human …, 2024 - Elsevier
Virtual environments (VEs) are increasingly being used as a research platform for
investigating human responses to environmental variables. While VEs provide tremendous …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of pedestrian wayfinding behavior between a real and a virtual multi-story building–A validation study

A van Beek, DC Duives, Y Feng… - … Research Part C …, 2024 - Elsevier
Although numerous studies used Virtual Reality (VR) to study pedestrian behavior, there is
an ongoing debate about the validity of using VR for studying pedestrian behavior. This …

Generating trajectory data without behavior modeling: An online virtual reality method in wayfinding performance evaluation for buildings

C Sun, M Zou, S Li, D Zhang - Journal of Building Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Wayfinding performance is one of the key issues in pre-or post-occupancy evaluation for
large-scale public buildings and such evaluation typically revolves around participants' …

Cognitive characteristics in wayfinding tasks in commercial and residential districts during daytime and nighttime: A comprehensive neuroergonomic study

J Wu, X Chen, M Zhao, C Xue - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2024 - Elsevier
Wayfinding is a representation of the adaptive behavior of humans. Research has shown
that urban environments impact pedestrians' perception and cognition, and wayfinding is a …

The elderly wayfinding performance in an informative healthcare design indoors

AE Pouyan, AH Ghanbaran, A Hosseinzadeh… - Journal of Building …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study examines the influence of architectural design elements and age on the
wayfinding performance (WP) of older adults in healthcare circulation patterns. The study …