WAYFI NDI NG STUDI ES
The orientat ion and navigat ion processes in built environments take part in daily
experience of the most people. These processes, even when they occur by a natural
way, are based in the human percept ion, decoding and act ion with the environment .
Generally, it results in decisions related to the choice of paths which are the best way
to reach a destinat ion.
When people try to find their way to a destinat ion in an unfamiliar environment , they
look for external information that will complement their orientation and navigation
processes in this unfamiliar environment . Many of the information that people need to
reach a destinat ion are in the world (knowledge in the world) and the human’s mind is
perfectly able to understand this world. I t is what made the people able to orientate
and navigate themselves in environments that they never interact before (Norman,
1989) .