Simple in-car route guidance information from another perspective: Modality versus coding

Simple in-car route guidance information from another perspective: Modality versus coding

Verwey, W.B.
Instituut voor Zintuigfysiologie TNO

Reekie, D.H.M. (editor)
Case, E.R. (editor)
Tsai, J. (editor)

1989

A previous field study concerning electronic navigation aids showed the advantage, in terms of navigational errors, of auditory presentation of route guidance instructions as compared to visual instructions (see W. B. Verwey and W. H. Janssen, 1988). In the present work, an experiment that tries to approach the issue of optimal route instructions in a more controlled environment is reported. Under conditions of severe perceptual-motor load, subjects were to interpret route instructions with slides depicting real-world junctions. The results showed the advantage of verbal over spatial information. No significant effect of presentation modality was found. Implications for presentation of route guidance instructions are given.

Automobile Drivers--Simulators/Physical Mock-Ups
Information Dissemination--Speech Communication
Systems Science and Cybernetics--Man Machine Systems
Audio Navigation Aids
Car Route Guidance
Electronic Navigation Aids
Navigational Errors
Vehicles

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First Vehicle Navigation and Information Systems Conference (VNIS '89), September 11-13, Toronto, 56-60

conference paper