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KI
2008
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Context-specific Route Directions
es of human direction giving. The process generates an abstract, relational specification of route directions, which can, for example, be externalized verbally.
Kai-Florian Richter
GISCIENCE
2010
Springer
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13 years 5 months ago
Automatic Extraction of Destinations, Origins and Route Parts from Human Generated Route Directions
Researchers from the cognitive and spatial sciences are studying text descriptions of movement patterns in order to examine how humans communicate and understand spatial informatio...
Xiao Zhang, Prasenjit Mitra, Alexander Klippel, Al...
COSIT
2007
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
A Uniform Handling of Different Landmark Types in Route Directions
Abstract. Landmarks are crucial for human wayfinding. Their integration in wayfinding assistance systems is essential for generating cognitively ergonomic route directions. I prese...
Kai-Florian Richter
COSIT
1999
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Elements of Good Route Directions in Familiar and Unfamiliar Environments
Route directions are instructions, primarily verbal, that explain how to get from one place to another. The current study examines several methods for assessing the quality of verb...
Kristin L. Lovelace, Mary Hegarty, Daniel R. Monte...
SPATIALCOGNITION
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Model for Context-Specific Route Directions
Wayfinding, i.e. getting from some origin to a destination, is one of the prime everyday problems humans encounter. It has received a lot of attention in research and many (commerc...
Kai-Florian Richter, Alexander Klippel
GISCIENCE
2004
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Landmarks in the Communication of Route Directions
We investigate the understanding of landmarks using a model of embedding procedures that sees affordances established on three levels. On the first level there are landmark experie...
Elisabeth Weissensteiner, Stephan Winter
HRI
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Providing route directions: design of robot's utterance, gesture, and timing
Providing route directions is a complicated interaction. Utterances are combined with gestures and pronounced with appropriate timing. This study proposes a model for a robot that...
Yusuke Okuno, Takayuki Kanda, Michita Imai, Hirosh...