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Place Recognition and Wayfinding: Making Sense of Space

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  • Golledge, Reginald G.

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In this paper I examine processes involved in place recognition and wayfinding in the context of spatial knowledge acquisition generally. Recognizing places is seen to be of vital importance in developing a declarative base: wayfinding is viewed as the most common means of acquiring place knowledge. Characteristics of place recognition are examined along with discussion of errors in place cognition and the role that spatial familiarity plays in attaching importance weights to distinguish primary nodes (anchor points) from other places. Wayfinding is characterized as route knowledge acquired via procedural rules. Parameters of wayfinding are discussed in reference to navigation in familiar and unfamiliar environments. The expression of wayfinding in terms of computational process models is examined, and the future role of geographic information systems in such modelling is explored in the penultimate section.

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  • Golledge, Reginald G., 1992. "Place Recognition and Wayfinding: Making Sense of Space," University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers qt3s50w5bq, University of California Transportation Center.
    • Handle: RePEc:cdl:uctcwp:qt3s50w5bq
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    1. Garling, Tommy & Kwan, Mei-Po & Golledge, Reginald G., 1991. "Computational-Process Modelling of Travel Decisions: Review and Conceptual Analysis," University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers qt6mk0h2s2, University of California Transportation Center.
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    3. Carlos Carrion & David Levinson, 2012. "Route choice dynamics after a link restoration," Working Papers 000105, University of Minnesota: Nexus Research Group.
    4. Albert, Gila & Toledo, Tomer & Ben-Zion, Uri, 2011. "The role of personality factors in repeated route choice behavior: behavioral economics perspective," European Transport \ Trasporti Europei, ISTIEE, Institute for the Study of Transport within the European Economic Integration, issue 48, pages 47-59.
    5. Samer Abu Ghazalah, 2007. "Social Behaviour in Academic Open Spaces," Psychology and Developing Societies, , vol. 19(1), pages 55-80, January.
    6. Golledge, Reginald G & Zhou, Jack, 1999. "A GPS-based Analysis of Household Travel Behavior," University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers qt3hg1f5nb, University of California Transportation Center.
    7. Netto, Vinicius M. & Brigatti, Edgardo & Meirelles, João & Ribeiro, Fabiano L. & Pace, Bruno & Cacholas, Caio & Sanches, Patricia Mara, 2018. "Cities, from information to interaction," SocArXiv jgz5d, Center for Open Science.
    8. Zhou, Jack & Golledge, Reginald, 1999. "A GPS-based Analysis Household Travel Behavior," University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers qt3zf8h075, University of California Transportation Center.
    9. Golledge, Reginald G. & Zhou, Jianyu, 2001. "GPS-Based Tracking of Daily Activities," University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers qt9jb438r2, University of California Transportation Center.
    10. Macdonald, Elizabeth & Harper, Alethea & Williams, Jeff & Hayter, Jason A., 2006. "Street Trees and Intersection Safety," University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers qt4sk6m275, University of California Transportation Center.
    11. Yu-Hsiu Hung & Kai-Yu Tsai & Eva Chang & Rain Chen, 2022. "Voice Navigation Created by VIP Improves Spatial Performance in People with Impaired Vision," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(7), pages 1-10, March.
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