Welcome to our study, "Analyzing Pedestrian Wayfinding Behavior"! This website is designed for your registration as well as collecting initial information necessary for your participation. You may need approx. 20 minutes to answer these questions.
The study is conducted by: Negar Alinaghi Msc. BSc., PhD researcher at Geoinformation Research Group, Vienna University of Technology. Contact information:
- email: negar.alinaghi@tuwien.ac.at
- Office address: Gußhausstraße 27-29, 1040 Vienna, room no. CD 03 13.
If you have any questions regarding your participation, the results of the study or the handling of your data, please contact me, Negar Alinaghi, or the Head of the Geoinformation Research Group at TU Wien, Prof. Dr. Ioannis Giannopoulos. Contact information:
- email: geoinfo@geo.tuwien.ac.at
- Office address: Gußhausstraße 27-29, 1040 Vienna, room no. CD 03 48.
In this experiment we want to collect data regarding pedestrians' behavior during wayfinding. To this end, we will ask you to perform a series of tasks while walking two different routes from a chosen starting point to a chosen destination in two different environments with one you are familiar and with the other you are unfamiliar.
We therefore need some information regarding your demographic data, personality traits collected through Big Five Inventory test, level of familiarity with different urban regions in city of Vienna, and your self-reported spatial abilities collected through the Santa Barbara Sense of Direction standard questionnaire. While you are performing the wayfinding-related tasks we will record your eye-movement, head-movement and geographical location for our analysis, using wearable sensors (the image below shows how the sensors would look like on you in the outdoor experiment).
We would also like to have your informed consent to our data collection policy (more details here). We kindly ask you to take your time and read all the information provided at the beginning of this survey.
We would like to thank our participants for their participation by raffling off a voucher (worth approximately 400€ for an online store of their choice) among them (approx. 50 people). We would ask you to express your agreement for taking part in this lottery by providing us your email address and selecting the agreement checkbox.
There are 22 questions in this survey.
