Landmarks are accepted as one of the vital elements in both virtual and real environments
during wayfinding tasks. This paper provides an overview of the existing literature on the …

People often get lost in buildings, including but not limited to libraries, hospitals, conference
centers, and shopping malls. There are at least three contributing factors: the spatial …

This paper complements landmark research with an approach to formalize the structural
salience of objects along routes. The aim is to automatically integrate salient objects …

This Editorial lead article for the Journal of Location Based Services surveys this complex
and multi-disciplinary field and identifies the key research issues. Although this field has …

This article focuses on the interactions between individual differences and building
characteristics that may occur during multilevel wayfinding. Using the Seattle Central Library …

Many older people, both with and without dementia, eventually move from their familiar
home environments into unfamiliar surroundings, such as sheltered housing or care homes …

In this article, we present a novel method for evaluating guidance systems using an
immersive virtual environment in combination with a mobile eye tracking system. Accurate …

All living creatures inscribe their activity in space. Human beings acquire knowledge of this
space by traversing it, listening to verbal descriptions, and looking at maps, atlases, and …

Semantics constitutes the highest level on the communication ladder. The mutual
understanding of terms makes it possible that information systems can communicate with …

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 …