Designing user-centered mobile wayfinding application for library indoor navigation

Wang, Xin; Rennick, Brian

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Title

Designing user-centered mobile wayfinding application for library indoor navigation

Author(s)

Wang, Xin; Rennick, Brian

Issue Date

2016-03-15

Keyword(s)

• wayfinding application
• indoor navigation
• mobile design
• card sorting
• information architecture

Abstract

Library users frequently confront difficulties in navigating through the library complex to find different formats of resources and services they seek. The rapid adoption of mobile technology made it possible to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of a wayfinding process. Incorporating users’ interests and preferences into the design procedure of a wayfinding application is an imperative task for developing library indoor navigation tools. With applying mixed research methods and innovative data collection technique (e.g., recording users’ interactive behavior on smartphone) to examine sixteen (16) smartphone users’ interaction with a wayfinding application on an academic library website, the authors identified a series of important usability problems existing in a wayfinding application, discovered users preferred interactive features, and proposed new labeling and navigation systems of such a kind of wayfinding application.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

IConference 2016 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

eng

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.9776/16533

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