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Wayfinding

Wayfinding is a cognitive–behavioral problem-solving process in spatial navigation that involves perceiving and interpreting environmental cues to determine, select, and follow a route to a desired destination while maintaining orientation and recognizing the goal within a built or virtual environment.

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Where we look when we steer

M. F. Land, D. N. Lee · Nature · 1994 · 1K citations

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Explaining the enigmatic anchoring effect: Mechanisms of selective accessibility.

Fritz Strack, Thomas Mussweiler · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1997 · 935 citations

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Gender differences in way-finding strategies: Relationship to spatial ability and spatial anxiety

Carol Lawton · Sex Roles · 1994 · 800 citations

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Visual guidance of walking through apertures: Body-scaled information for affordances.

William H. Warren, Suzanne Whang · Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance · 1987 · 742 citations

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Some map matching algorithms for personal navigation assistants

Christopher E. White, David Bernstein, Alain L. Kornhauser · Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies · 2000 · 612 citations

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  1. RG
    Reginald G. Golledge

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    21 publications · 2.6K citations

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  2. CA
    Chieko Asakawa

    IBM Research - Tokyo, Japan

    18 publications · 1.2K citations

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  3. CH
    Christoph Hölscher

    ETH Zurich, Switzerland

    19 publications · 1.9K citations

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  4. DA
    Dragan Ahmetovic

    University of Milan, Italy

    16 publications · 942 citations

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  5. SZ
    Sisi Zlatanova

    Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

    17 publications · 483 citations

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  1. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    29 h-index

    92 publications

    5.5K citations

  2. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

    28 h-index

    85 publications

    11K citations

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    28 h-index

    107 publications

    6.1K citations

  4. ETH Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    24 h-index

    96 publications

    4.5K citations

  5. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    22 h-index

    70 publications

    7.6K citations

  6. University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    19 h-index

    46 publications

    2.9K citations

  7. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    18 h-index

    62 publications

    4.1K citations

  8. Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

    Tübingen, Germany

    17 h-index

    40 publications

    3.7K citations

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  1. Journal of Environmental Psychology

    57 publications · 5.6K citations

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  2. Environment and Behavior

    40 publications · 5.1K citations

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  4. Spatial Cognition and Computation

    31 publications · 1.3K citations

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  5. Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness

    JVIB · 31 publications · 1.3K citations

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