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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. Wayfinding software is a self-service computer program that helps users to find a location, usually used indoors and installed on interactive kiosks or smartphones .
Indoor wayfinding in public buildings such as hospitals is commonly aided by kiosks, indoor maps, and building directories. [12] Indoor wayfinding is equally important in office buildings. [13] Such spaces that involve areas outside the normal vocabulary of visitors show the need for a common set of language-independent symbols. [14]
Wayfinding is defined as an active process of following or deciding upon a path between one place to another through mental representations. [58] It involves processes such as representation, planning and decision which help to avoid obstacles, to stay on course or to regulate pace when approaching particular objects.
Sense of direction is the ability to know one's location and perform wayfinding. [1] [2] It is related to cognitive maps, spatial awareness, and spatial cognition. [3] Sense of direction can be impaired by brain damage, such as in the case of topographical disorientation. Humans create spatial maps whenever they go somewhere.
A Prussian milestone c. 1836, reading "II MEILEN BIS BERLIN" ("two miles to Berlin").. The first direction signs were milestones on the Roman road network; finding one's location on the long, straight roads was difficult, and hence, large stones were placed at intervals along the roads, giving the distance in Roman miles to nearby major cities, and usually to the capitals of major provinces.
The Legible London logo. Legible London is a citywide wayfinding system for London, operated by Transport for London (TfL).The system is designed to provide a consistent visual language and wayfinding system across the city, allowing visitors and local residents to easily gain local geographic knowledge regardless of the area they are in. [1] It is the world's largest municipal wayfinding system.
One 2021 Frontiers in Physiology reported that physical activity, especially in short-duration, high-intensity bursts (HIIT), was an effective way to lower abdominal fat.
Acoustic wayfinding involves using a variety of auditory cues to create a mental map of the surrounding environment. This can include a number of techniques: navigating by sounds from the natural environment, such as pedestrian crossing signals; echolocation, or creating sound waves (by tapping a cane or making clicking noises) to determine the location and size of surrounding objects; and ...