Focalizing Measures of Salience for Wayfinding

Winter S, Raubal M, Nothegger C

Research article (book contribution)

Abstract

This paper reviews a model of measuring the salience of a specific class of spatial features-façades of buildings-for adaptation to abilities and preferences of user groups of wayfinding services. The model was intentionally designed to be open for such adaptations, and we will report on ways, experiences, and limitations of doing so. We will prove the hypothesis that focalization, i.e., adaptation to different contexts, can be sufficiently modeled by weights of predetermined salience measures to increase wayfinding success. The long term goal is to identify sets of weights for typical foci of user groups.

Details zur Publikation

Release year: 2005