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Fu, Wai-Tat O'Brien, William D. Battles, Andrew 2014-01-16T17:56:18Z 2014-01-16T17:56:18Z 2013-12 2014-01-16T17:56:18Z 2013-12 This thesis aims to explore the strategies people use to navigate an unfamiliar indoor environment. Many studies of wayfinding have been done in the past, but most pertain to outdoor environments and few studies take place solely indoors. This thesis also sought to develop a portable wayfinding aid that could downloaded to a visitor’s portable device and be carried around during their visit to a new indoor environment. Two experiments were run, the second expanding on the first. Subjects were given an iPad™ device loaded with a custom-made map program and asked to find a series of locations in the building, while a researcher followed them taking notes on subjects’ think-aloud data and asking questions of the subject between tasks. In both studies, subjects who used a more globally-oriented strategy performed better than subjects using a surroundings-based strategy. The use of the program made for the device also revealed a number of guidelines for the creation of effective indoor wayfinding aids. Item withdrawn by Katherine Eriksen (eriksen3@illinois.edu) on 2013-10-02T14:08:35Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 4 Battles_Andrew.docx: 1778775 bytes, checksum: 1a76a578dcee5767cfbc45b3777a15b6 (MD5) Appendix A.2. Posttest.pdf: 306875 bytes, checksum: 68e15c17946d5459af2c2fbfd27b76dd (MD5) Appendix A.1. Pretest.pdf: 323990 bytes, checksum: 789f6c8fab0a2e3291b6b0d48e69cbb3 (MD5) Battles_Andrew.pdf: 1819493 bytes, checksum: 348d66b967b0eb3b1e8dd49249132ec7 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2014-01-16T17:56:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 4 Andrew_Battles.pdf: 1845810 bytes, checksum: f920a25f470e7e58ee09a5121a139d8e (MD5) Posttest.pdf: 306875 bytes, checksum: 68e15c17946d5459af2c2fbfd27b76dd (MD5) Battles_Andrew.docx: 1778775 bytes, checksum: 1a76a578dcee5767cfbc45b3777a15b6 (MD5) license.txt: 4064 bytes, checksum: 995d7b252b4a2f56d30eb4dfeeff3db6 (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/46616 en Copyright 2013 Andrew Battles wayfinding mobile devices Mobile electronic aids for indoor wayfinding text Electrical and Computer Engineering 1933 Electrical and Computer Engineering 1200 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.S. MS:Electr & Computer Eng-UIUC 10KS1200MS