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This paper explores the effectiveness of different representational options in providing navigational cues to visitors to a site, in this case the City Campus of the University of Auckland. The research involved integrating the theory of wayfinding and spatial search behaviour with that of cartography and spatial visualisation, so as to identify appropriate approaches to designing and implementing an interactive system. Prototype navigation systems of different representations are produced for obtaining wayfinding performance data from participants. Ferom the results, advantages and disadvantages of the different systems are identified.
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Cheung, A.K.L. (2006). Representational Issues in Interactive Wayfinding Systems: Navigating the Auckland University Campus. In: Carswell, J.D., Tezuka, T. (eds) Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems. W2GIS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4295. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11935148_9
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