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TY - CHAP
T1 - Wayfinding and Spatial Configuration
T2 - evidence from street corners
AU - Emo, Beatrix
AU - Hoelscher, Christoph
AU - Wiener, Jan
AU - Dalton, Ruth
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Experimental subjects choose where to go at various street corners in the City of London. A total of 532 decisions of 20 participants at 28 street corners provide a rich set of data. Based on this evidence, a model for the role of spatial geometry in wayfinding is proposed. An admixture of local and global space syntax measures of spatial configuration explains where people move; global integration proving to be a particularly dominant variable. Controls single out the impacts of lighting and affordances; other persons and traffic serving as particularly strong attractors. The experiment sheds new light on the role of the space syntax model for analysing individual spatial decisions.
AB - Experimental subjects choose where to go at various street corners in the City of London. A total of 532 decisions of 20 participants at 28 street corners provide a rich set of data. Based on this evidence, a model for the role of spatial geometry in wayfinding is proposed. An admixture of local and global space syntax measures of spatial configuration explains where people move; global integration proving to be a particularly dominant variable. Controls single out the impacts of lighting and affordances; other persons and traffic serving as particularly strong attractors. The experiment sheds new light on the role of the space syntax model for analysing individual spatial decisions.
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9789563458626
SP - 1
EP - 16
BT - Proceedings: Eighth International Space Syntax Symposium
A2 - Greene, Margarita
A2 - Reyes, José
A2 - Castro, Andrea
PB - PUC
ER -