Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ)
Online ISSN : 1881-8161
Print ISSN : 1340-4210
ISSN-L : 1340-4210
ANALYSIS OF THE RELATION OF LOST-BEHAVIOR AND INFORMATIONAL SPACE : A cognitive study on wayfinding in architectural space, No.4
Akihiko WATANABEKazuhiko MORI
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1997 Volume 62 Issue 491 Pages 99-107

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The purpose of this study is to analyze the relation of informational space and lost-behaviors on wayfinding behaviors which are the problem solving processes to move to a room getting information. The factors to repress and cause lost-behavior (selecting wrong route, and backtracking) are made clear by a discriminant analysis of experimental subjects' wayfinding behaviors in four types of informational space; corridor type without map-sign and directional signs, corridor type with map-sign and directional signs, hall type without map-sign, and hall type with map-sign,
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© 1997 Architectural Institute of Japan
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