Human behaviour · 2024
How visibility shapes wayfinding
What people can see changes how they search a building. This study reanalyses six wayfinding tasks completed by 149 participants in virtual multilevel buildings. Visibility of useful features, such as staircases, interacted with expectations about destinations to shape routes and search efficiency. The findings come from desktop virtual reality, where movement and distance perception differ from physical navigation.
Wayfinding path density across the base, atria and glass conditions. Purple indicates lower density and green higher density; densities are normalized across conditions. Original Figure 4.
Gath-Morad et al., Figure 4, DOI 10.1038/s41598-024-53420-6. Cropped from PDF page 7. Source · CC BY 4.0. Cropped the original PDF around the complete figure; rasterized without changing scientific content.
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The role of strategic visibility in shaping wayfinding behavior in multilevel buildings
Michal Gath-Morad, Jascha Grübel, Koen Steemers, Kerstin Sailer, Lola Ben-Alon, Christoph Hölscher, Leonel Aguilar
Scientific Reports · 2024
Summary based on Publisher version, Scientific Reports 14:3735; UCL Discovery copy, PDF pages 1, 3, 7, 11.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-53420-6