Fed up with wayfinding?
GIScience kicked off here in Münster today with a series of five workshops. I joined the one on The Cognitive Approach to Modeling Environments (CAME), and one of the most interesting topics for discussion was brought up by Clare Davies from Ordnance Survey: Is there actually another spatial task than wayfinding that most people are familiar with, and that could thus serve as a good use case for research on spatial behavior, cognition, etc.?
We had quite a long discussion about this topic, but there was hardly anything brought up that is not related to wayfinding at all. Some sub-tasks of wayfinding like orientation were discussed, but most other ideas - like spatial planning, for example - are tasks for specific professional users.
So maybe we will have to look at wayfinding some more, unless someone reading this has a clever idea what could be the next big thing in terms of THE use case.
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