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Wayfinding: Affordances and Agent Simulation

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Affordance; Agent simulation; Cognitive psychology; Environmental communication; Multi Agent Systems; Wayfinding behavior

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Wayfinding behavior is the purposeful, directed, and motivated movement from an origin to a specific distant destination that cannot be directly perceived by the traveler. It involves interaction between the wayfinder and the environment.

Affordances are a concept from ecological psychology based on the paradigm of direct perception. They are specific combinations of the properties of substances and surfaces taken with reference to an observer. These invariant compounds are specified in ambient light-which is the result of illumination-and detected as units. Ambient light has structure and therefore information.

Agent simulationis a technique of imitating the behavior of some situation or process involving one or many agents. An agent is anything that can perceive its environment through sensors and act upon it through effectors. Agents are...

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Raubal, M. (2017). Wayfinding: Affordances and Agent Simulation. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_1469

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