Hi Solvej,
In my Master Project, I looked into how people orient themselves in hospitals, how they get lost and why and what it means to get lost in this context. Will be happy to talk to you.
Sabine
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Sabine Junginger, Ph.D.
Lecturer Product Design and Design Management
Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts (LICA)
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YW, UK
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From: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design on behalf of Solvej Colfelt
Sent: Wed 4/13/2011 10:32 AM
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Subject: Re: WAYFINDING
Dear Terence Love
I do NOT mean signage, cartography or other wayshowing related studies
though they are closely related of course. I am looking for recent studies
on how humans orient themselves in the built environment.
Solvej :-)
On 13/04/11 11.30, "Terence Love" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Solvej,
> Good question. Can you say more about how you are defining way finding.
> There seems to be lots of design research literature on design issues
> relating to wayfinding. A huge amount if you include 'map design', i.e.
> cartography, a sophisticated and very well established area of design
> research. See also the literature on *use* of signage. A simple Google
> search on "design research wayfinding" gives a few hundred references. I'm
> guessing you mean something different?
> Dr Chris Kueh's thesis on wayfinding is available from Curtin University, as
> is a good Master's thesis on wayfinding within the campus.
> Best wishes,
> Terry
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: WAYFINDING
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> Theres is no designrelated research studies in wayfinding (not wayshowing).
> Or is there ?
>
>
> Best Regards
>
> Solvej Colfelt
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