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The focus of this chapter will be on the practical problem of finding the best technical support for wayfinding in the maritime domain, especially in the context of escape and evacuation situations. Technical support for wayfinding can in general take many different forms, but it usually involves augmenting the built environment with signs informing occupants of the way to certain places within a building or how to find a way out in an emergency. These signs will usually be graphical signs and they will often be static signs, as we know them from street signs on buildings, telling us of the name of a particular street, or city maps giving us an overview of the layout of a part of the city. Inside buildings and other built environments, such as ships and aircraft, we often find a third type of sign, besides symbols naming objects or maps locating objects relative to each other; namely, a network of graphical arrows indicating the direction to the nearest exit.
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May, M. (2004). Wayfinding, Ships and Augmented Reality. In: Andersen, P., Qvortrup, L. (eds) Virtual Applications. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3746-7_10
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