wayfinding
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thumb|A man referring to a paper map in Joshua Tree National Park Wayfinding (or way-finding) encompasses all of the ways in which people (and animals) orient themselves in physical space and navigate from place to place.
Research
807 papers- Wayfinding in Interior Environments: An Integrative Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2020
- Wayfinding across ocean and tundra: what traditional cultures teach us about navigation.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2024
- Wayfinding in Children: A Descriptive Literature Review of Research Methods.The Journal of genetic psychology · 2022
- Wayfinding.AMA journal of ethics · 2021
- Enhancing Patients' Wayfinding and Visitation Experience Improves Quality of Care.Journal of perianesthesia nursing : official journal of the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses · 2020
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Language
- Examples
- Urban wayfinding
- Indoor wayfinding
- Basic process
- See also
- References
thumb|A man referring to a paper map in Joshua Tree National Park Wayfinding (or way-finding) encompasses all of the ways in which people (and animals) orient themselves in physical space and navigate from place to place.
== History == Kevin A. Lynch used the term (originally "way-finding") for his 1960 book The Image of the City, where he defined way-finding as "a consistent use and organization of definite sensory cues from the external environment."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “wayfinding” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.