Navigation Bibliography

linkWayfinding references from a

linkpaper by Scott Bell, Geography Department, UCSB.

linkWayfinding references from a paper on wayfinding in virtual environments.Navigation through cyberspace is becoming an important field of study. Work in cyberspace will overlap with the professional research of others interested in wayfinding.

linkA study: Understanding Geographic Space Without the Use of Vision



Here is a list of key terminology used by the different disciplines when speaking of human navigation:

Environmental cognition
Way-finding
Cognitive mapping (which is the same thing as "mental mapping," "cognitive collage," cognitive configuration," and internal GIS).
Cognitive psychology
Orientation and Mobility
Navigational awareness
Navigational Knowledge
Survey Knowledge
Route Knowledge
Spatial ability
Spatial orientation
Spatial visualization
Spatial relations
Large scale spaces
Spatial products
Spatial thought
Spatial storage (or memory)
Spatial cognition
phenomenological geography
Behavioral geography
Egocentric, allocentric, geocentric

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