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Reactive Urban Space: Designing Semantic Wayfinding Experience with Spatial Augmentation

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posted on 2019-02-26, 19:29 authored by Nurie JeongNurie Jeong
Finding one's way in unfamiliar urban centers
can be overwhelming for pedestrians given
the quantity of information available and
uncertainty of decisions. Moving between
multiple different types of information
and navigating at the same time causes
cognitive overload. On top of that, users
also experience safety hazard while walking
through an unsafe neighborhood or road
with no sidewalk as guided by their GPS.
This is because most current map solutions
focus mainly on navigation, moving from one
place to another at the shortest distance.
Wayfinding, on the other hand, can be defined
as spatial problem solving, which requires
the users to get various kinds of peripheral
information including safety, unexpected
delay, and so on. The ideal wayfinding
experience should be able to reflect travelers’
ability to achieve a specific destination
by providing semantic information. This
project, targeting pedestrians exploring
in urban space, envisions the near future
where the real space becomes the next web
browser, powered by 3D model mapping,
augmented reality technology and speech
recognition. The illustrations will show how
the urban explorers get semantic wayfinding
information directly from the real space
and buildings, supporting the ideal urban
navigation experience.

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Date

2018-05-16

Degree Type

  • Master's Thesis

Department

  • Design

Degree Name

  • Master of Design (MDes)

Advisor(s)

Peter Scupelli

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