Evaluation of pedestrian navigation in Smart Cities. (July 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Stähli, Lisa; Giannopoulos, Ioannis; Raubal, Martin
• Is Part Of: Environment & planning. Volume 48:Number 6(2021)
• Page Start: 1728
• Page End: 1745
• Publication Date: 2021-07
• Subjects: Pedestrian navigation -- Smart City -- public display -- virtual environment -- landmarks -- augmented reality; City planning -- Periodicals; Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Periodicals; 307.11605
• DOI: 10.1177/2399808320949538
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2399-8083

Abstract

This work addresses recent research in the area of pedestrian navigation aids that aims at finding alternatives to the widely used map-based turn-by-turn navigation systems in the context of Smart City environments. Four different approaches of pedestrian navigation systems were compared to each other in a user experiment that was conducted in a virtual environment: (1) map-based, (2) landmark-based, (3) augmented reality, and (4) public display navigation. The results of the experiment with 45 participants conducted in a virtual environment suggest that the augmented reality navigation performs best concerning efficiency and effectiveness and the landmark-based navigation performs worst in the context of Smart Cities.