Comparing the effects of reference-based, orientation-based, and turn-by-turn navigation guidance on users' independent navigation

Ting Yu Kuo, Hung Kuo Chu, Yung Ju Chang

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Abstract

Research has shown that turn-by-turn navigation guidance has made users overly reliant on such guidance, impairing their independent wayfinding ability. This paper compares the impacts of two new types of navigation guidance - reference-based and orientation-based - on their users' ability to independently navigate to the same destinations, both as compared to each other, and as compared to two types of traditional turn-by-turn guidance, i.e., map-based and augmented-reality (AR) based. The results of our within-subjects experiment indicate that, while the use of reference-based guidance led to users taking more time to navigate when first receiving it, it boosted their subsequent ability to independently navigate to the same destination in less time, via more efficient routes, and with less assistance-seeking from their phones than either map-based or AR-based turn-by-turn navigation guidance did.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationUbiComp/ISWC 2020 Adjunct - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages63-66
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781450380768
DOIs
StatePublished - 10 Sep 2020
Event2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp/ISWC 2020 - Virtual, Online, Mexico
Duration: 12 Sep 202017 Sep 2020

Publication series

NameUbiComp/ISWC 2020 Adjunct - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

Conference

Conference2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp/ISWC 2020
Country/TerritoryMexico
CityVirtual, Online
Period12/09/2017/09/20

Keywords

  • mobile navigation systems
  • navigational guidance
  • pedestrian navigation
  • spatial knowledge
  • wayfinding performance

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