The Wayfinding Lab conducts research into the cognitive processes involved in successful navigation and wayfinding. Please explore our website using the tabs above, to learn more about our current projects and local work.
Read MoreThe Wayfinding Lab is currently involved in a wide variety of navigational projects. We explore Wayfinding in relation to Gaze Behaviour, Cognitive Ageing, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and use of Complex Signage. Our project pages contain more information on each of these endeavours and our Lab members can be contacted via our contact page, should you wish to know more…
The Wayfinding Lab at Bournemouth University is supported by state-of-the-art technical facilities. As well as dedicated technicians on hand to support wayfinding research, the lab relies on an SR Research EyeLink 1000 & EyeLink II, an Ergoneers pre-ambulatory eye tracker, a Polhemus Fastrak head position monitor and two immersive virtual reality set ups…
Lester, A.W., Moffat, S.D., Wiener, J.M., Barnes, C.A., Wolbers, T (in press). The Aging Navigational System, Neuron (2017), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2017.06.037
Hartmeyer, S., Grzeschik, R., Wolbers, T., Wiener, J.M. (2017). The effects of attentional engagement on route learning performance in a virtual environment: an aging study. Front. Aging Neurosci. 9:235. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2017.00235
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We have just had a paper accepted in Dementia. The position paper is entitled...
The ESRC has just accepted our grant proposal on Dementia Friendly Architecture! We...
We just published a new paper entitled: Human place and response learning: navigation strategy selection, pupil size and gaze behavior
Jessica Miller, 2nd year PhD student in the Wayfinding Research Centre has just published her first paper on "PTSD recovery, Spatial Processing, and the val66met Polymorphism".
Edited Oxford University Press book on "Interrelations of Behaviour, Language and Formal Models" published.
The Wayfinding Research has launched ViRtOUS a new state of the art research platform
