Wayfinding and Spatial Configuration: evidence
from street corners

Beatrix Emo; Christoph Hoelscher; Jan Wiener; Ruth Dalton

Wayfinding and Spatial Configuration: evidence from street corners

Beatrix Emo, Christoph Hoelscher, Jan Wiener, Ruth Dalton

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Experimental subjects choose where to go at various street corners in the City of London. A total of 532 decisions of 20 participants at 28 street corners provide a rich set of data. Based on this evidence, a model for the role of spatial geometry in wayfinding is proposed. An admixture of local and global space syntax measures of spatial configuration explains where people move; global integration proving to be a particularly dominant variable. Controls single out the impacts of lighting and affordances; other persons and traffic serving as particularly strong attractors. The experiment sheds new light on the role of the space syntax model for analysing individual spatial decisions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings: Eighth International Space Syntax Symposium
Editors	Margarita Greene, José Reyes, Andrea Castro
Place of Publication	Santiago de Chile
Publisher	PUC
Pages	1-16
ISBN (Print)	978-956-345-862-6
Publication status	Published - 2012

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