Navigation, wayfinding, and place experience within a virtual city

Craig D. Murray; John M. Bowers; Adrian J. West; Steve Pettifer; Simon Gibson

doi:10.1162/105474600566934

Navigation, wayfinding, and place experience within a virtual city

Craig D. Murray, John M. Bowers, Adrian J. West, Steve Pettifer, Simon Gibson

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We report a qualitative study of navigation, wayfinding, and place experience within a virtual city. "Cityscape" is a virtual environment (VE), partially algorithmically generated and intended to be redolent of the aggregate forms of real cities. In the present study, we observed and interviewed participants during and following exploration of a desktop implementation of Cityscape. A number of emergent themes were identified and are presented and discussed. Observing the interaction with the virtual city suggested a continuous relationship between real and virtual worlds. Participants were seen to attribute real-world properties and expectations to the contents of the virtual world. The implications of these themes for the construction of virtual environments modeled on real-world forms are considered.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	435-447
Number of pages	12
Journal	Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
Volume	9
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1162/105474600566934
Publication status	Published - Oct 2000

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