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People can give better route advice to a wayfinder than current navigation services due to many reasons, among them their more compatible spatial conceptualizations based on a common embodied experience of space, and their situatedness during communication, enabling them to make inferences to capture and adapt to context. So, how far are current navigation services from imitating humans in giving route directions? And what can we learn from this question, in terms of need for further research to build more intelligent services? This paper aims for a systematic framework to develop a research agenda for services to give better route directions. The framework is developed from various perspectives on human wayfinding communication.
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This work is supported under the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Projects funding scheme (project number 0878119). Anonymous reviewers gave valuable comments on an earlier version of this paper.
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Winter, S., Wu, Y. (2009). Intelligent Spatial Communication. In: Navratil, G. (eds) Research Trends in Geographic Information Science. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88244-2_16
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