Virtual Reality provides a safe environment to explore novel design ideas to assist people navigate in unfamiliar environments. This study compared effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction of three wayfinding aids, View-in-View Map (VVM), Animation Guide (AG) and Human-System Collaboration (HSC) in support of navigation in virtual reality. Experiment results show that while an overview still outperforms AG and HSC, AG serves better for most people with ordinary spatial ability and people with superior spatial ability tends to perform better using HSC.

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Wu, A., Zhang, W., Zhang, X. (2009). Evaluation of Wayfinding Aids Interface in Virtual Environment. International Journal of Human Computer Interaction, 25(1), 1-21. PDF

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