Satellite Navigation and Geospatial Awareness: Long-Term Effects of Using Navigation Tools on Wayfinding and Spatial Orientation
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This article examined long-term effects of using navigation tools on wayfinding and spatial orientation, through a survey analysis of the experience of using navigation tools and spatial aptitudes, and a behavioral experiment of real-world navigation. Experience of tool use was measured in terms of regular use (time length and frequency) and accumulated experience (time length multiplied by frequency). The survey analysis showed that frequent users of pedestrian navigation systems tended to be low on sense of direction and mental rotation. In contrast, longtime users of maps tended to be high on sense of direction and favor survey navigation strategies. The behavioral experiment showed that people who had more accumulated experience of using in-car navigation systems traveled less efficiently and learned the configurations of traveled routes less accurately with a mobile tool and a paper map. The analysis of long-term effects through structural equation modeling showed that spatial aptitudes and accumulated experience of tool use independently affect wayfinding and spatial orientation and that the negative effects of accumulated experience were larger than the positive effects of spatial aptitudes. The results and implications are discussed in relation to existing studies of short-term effects and spatial thinking.
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Over-reliance on mobile maps negatively influences wayfinders' spatial knowledge acquisition of the traversed environment in the short term and contributes to long-term deterioration of their spatial abilities.
“Past empirical research has demonstrated that over-reliance on mobile maps negatively influences wayfinders’ spatial knowledge acquisition of the traversed environment in the short term and further contributes to the long-term deterioration of their spatial abilities (Dahmani & Bohbot, 2020; Ishikawa, 2019; Ruginski et al., 2019).”
From The influence of landmark visualization style on task performance, visual attention, and spatial learning in a real-world navigation task (2024) · cites this paper as Ishikawa, 2019
People with lower spatial abilities are more likely to be prone to negative effects on spatial learning, such as passive reliance on navigation aids and lesser engagement with the environment.
“and thus are more likely to be prone to negative effects on spatial learning, such as passive reliance on navigation aids and thus lesser engagement with the environment (Dahmani & Bohbot, 2020; Ishikawa, 2019; Ruginski et al., 2019).”
From The influence of landmark visualization style on task performance, visual attention, and spatial learning in a real-world navigation task (2024) · cites this paper as Ishikawa, 2019
People with lower spatial abilities rely more on mobile maps.
“Indeed, people with lower spatial abilities rely more on mobile maps – which was also the case in our study, regardless of the landmark visualization style – and thus are more likely to be prone to negative effects on spatial learning, such as passive reliance on navigation aids and thus lesser engagement with the environment (Dahmani & Bohbot, 2020; Ishikawa, 2019; Ruginski et al., 2019).”
From The influence of landmark visualization style on task performance, visual attention, and spatial learning in a real-world navigation task (2024) · cites this paper as Ishikawa, 2019
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- Authors
- Ishikawa, T.
- Affiliations
- The University of Tokyo (JP)
- Corresponding author
- Ishikawa, Toru
- ORCID
- Ishikawa, Toru
- Venue
- The Professional Geographer
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2018-10-08
- Volume
- 71
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 197-209
- ISSN
- 0033-0124 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9272
- OpenAlex
- W2896513866
- Cited by
- 83
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 2 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 2.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Professional Geographer (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- JSPS (15K12454)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Spatial Cognition and Navigation
- Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Geography Education and Pedagogy
- Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Keywords
- satellite navigation, wayfinding, spatial orientation, sense of direction, mental rotation, spatial ability, vehicle navigation, paper maps, pedestrian navigation, route learning, spatial thinking
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