Effects of Marked Routes in You-are-Here Maps on Navigation Performance and Cognitive Mapping

Abstract

desktop study where participants had to find their way through a 2.5D virtual environment having seen a map of a simple or complex environment with or without marked shortest path for 35s or 70s; time to destination, wayfinding problems, sketch maps were recorded; map viewing time did not make a difference; participants with marked route took longer, had more wayfinding problems, and overall produced slightly poorer sketch maps (mostly periphery, the routes were clearly better sketched)