Familiarity factors of street features in pedestrian wayfindings

From an origin point to a destination point, good wayfinding process requires familiar recognition on the street environment. However, the unclear reasons of identifying street features to determine a route to the destination influences a pedestrian to select the wrong turn, walk in longer distance,...

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Main Authors: Wan Mohamad, Wan Saiful Nizam, Said, Ismail
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Language:English
Published: Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 2018
Online Access:http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/7300/1/88.pdf
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spelling my.umk.eprints.73002022-05-23T09:55:56Z http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/7300/ Familiarity factors of street features in pedestrian wayfindings Wan Mohamad, Wan Saiful Nizam Said, Ismail From an origin point to a destination point, good wayfinding process requires familiar recognition on the street environment. However, the unclear reasons of identifying street features to determine a route to the destination influences a pedestrian to select the wrong turn, walk in longer distance, and lost his direction. This paper aims to identify the factors that influence pedestrian familiarity, familiar or unfamiliar, in people wayfinding. Two hundred questionnaires were collected in Teluk Intan, Perak, Malaysia. Quotations from 30 interviews were used to triangulate the findings. Factor analysis available in IBM SPSS version 21 was used in exploring the familiarity factors for wayfinding. The finding suggests three factors influenced pedestrian to familiar with the street environment, which the factors are characteristic, attraction, and interest of street features. While, the duplication design of street features, error in defining the position of street features and form similarity of street features influence pedestrian to become unfamiliar with the street environment. This paper implies that the physical form of street features gives impact to pedestrian familiarity. Consideration of the three factors that influence pedestrian to familiar with the environment can improve how pedestrian experience in street network especially wayfinding. Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 2018-07-11 Indexed Article NonPeerReviewed text en http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/7300/1/88.pdf Wan Mohamad, Wan Saiful Nizam and Said, Ismail (2018) Familiarity factors of street features in pedestrian wayfindings. International Journal of Built Enviroment And Sustainability, 5 (3). pp. 201-207. ISSN 1511-1369 http://www.ijbes.utm.my
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description From an origin point to a destination point, good wayfinding process requires familiar recognition on the street environment. However, the unclear reasons of identifying street features to determine a route to the destination influences a pedestrian to select the wrong turn, walk in longer distance, and lost his direction. This paper aims to identify the factors that influence pedestrian familiarity, familiar or unfamiliar, in people wayfinding. Two hundred questionnaires were collected in Teluk Intan, Perak, Malaysia. Quotations from 30 interviews were used to triangulate the findings. Factor analysis available in IBM SPSS version 21 was used in exploring the familiarity factors for wayfinding. The finding suggests three factors influenced pedestrian to familiar with the street environment, which the factors are characteristic, attraction, and interest of street features. While, the duplication design of street features, error in defining the position of street features and form similarity of street features influence pedestrian to become unfamiliar with the street environment. This paper implies that the physical form of street features gives impact to pedestrian familiarity. Consideration of the three factors that influence pedestrian to familiar with the environment can improve how pedestrian experience in street network especially wayfinding.
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author Wan Mohamad, Wan Saiful Nizam
Said, Ismail
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title Familiarity factors of street features in pedestrian wayfindings
title_short Familiarity factors of street features in pedestrian wayfindings
title_full Familiarity factors of street features in pedestrian wayfindings
title_fullStr Familiarity factors of street features in pedestrian wayfindings
title_full_unstemmed Familiarity factors of street features in pedestrian wayfindings
title_sort familiarity factors of street features in pedestrian wayfindings
publisher Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
publishDate 2018
url http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/7300/1/88.pdf
http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/7300/
http://www.ijbes.utm.my
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