Toshitomo Suzuki and Shigeyuki Okazaki,
Way-finding Behavior with Verbal Communication in a Virtual MazeJournal of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Engineering (Transaction of AIJ), No.543, pp.155-162, 2001.5We developed the multi-user system for the experiments of way-finding with verbal communication in a virtual maze. We experimented competitive-cooperative way-finding with the multi-user system: two subjects make a pair and two pairs compete with each other in finding a goal. We also experimented cooperative way-finding: four subjects cooperate in finding a goal. According to these experiments, we have found seven kinds of way-finding behaviors, state-transition from one behavior to another, kinds of communication words, and characteristics of image map drawn by subjects.
Toshitomo Suzuki and Shigeyuki Okazaki, Analysis of Conversations while Group Way-finding Experiment in a Virtual Maze,Technical Report of IEICE, Vol.103, No.39, HIP2003-7, pp.33-38, 2003.5(in Japanese) An experiment was conducted by using nine computers on the multi-user system such that eight users cooperate for finding a goal in a virtual maze. We analyzed enormous conversations to be composed of subject, oral sign of field, case and predicate. Because speaker and listener shared the same space in this experiment, many oral signs of field depended on the positional relationship between them were used. As a result, we were able to class conversations of users in limited patterns.
Hideaki Tembata, Toshitomo Suzuki and Shigeyuki Okazaki, Classification of Conversations in Group Way-finding- Way-finding with Communication, Part 5 -,Summaries of Technical Papers of Annual Meeting Architectural Institute of Japan, E-1, pp.879-880, 2003.9 (in Japanese) PDF (in Japanese, 293KB)
Toshitomo Suzuki, Shigeyuki Okazaki and Hideaki Tembata, Extracting Patterns of Conversations in Group Way-finding- Way-finding with Communication, Part 6 -,Summaries of Technical Papers of Annual Meeting Architectural Institute of Japan, E-1, pp.881-882, 2003.9 (in Japanese) PDF (in Japanese, 185KB) Toshitomo Suzuki, Shigeyuki Okazaki and Hideaki Tembata, Summary of Way-finding Experiment on Eight Subjects with Guidance and Communication with Each Other- Way-finding with Communication, Part 3 -Summaries of Technical Papers of Annual Meeting Architectural Institute of Japan, E-1, pp.691-692, 2002.8PDF(in Japanese, 128KB) Hideaki Tembata, Toshitomo Suzuki and Shigeyuki Okazaki, Characteristics of Maps and Scenes Drawn After the Way-finding Experiment@- Way-finding with Communication, Part 4 -Summaries of Technical Papers of Annual Meeting Architectural Institute of Japan, E-1, pp.693-694, 2002.8PDF(in Japanese, 612KB)
Masaaki Maeda, Toshitomo Suzuki, Shigeyuki Okazaki and Akihiro Ito, Way-finding Experiments in a Virtual Maze by Network- Way-finding with Communication, Part 1 -Summaries of Technical Papers of Annual Meeting Architectural Institute of Japan. E-1, pp.1065-1066, 2000.9 (in Japanese)Despite their importance to research, there exist almost no studies on the relationship between communication and way-finding. This research aims at constructing multi-user network and at making way-finding experiments with communication in a virtual maze. We have developed "FreeWalk-VRML" that is a system for way-finding with communication in a virtual maze. We made competitive-cooperative way-finding experiment that two pairs compete with each other in finding a goal. And we made cooperative way-finding experiment that four subjects find a goal in cooperation with them. Toshitomo Suzuki, Shigeyuki Okazaki, Masaaki Maeda and Akihiro Ito, Behavior in Way-finding Experiments in a Virtual Maze- Way-finding with Communication, Part 2 -Summaries of Technical Papers of Annual Meeting Architectural Institute of Japan. E-1, pp.1067-1068, 2000.9 (in Japanese)We discuss about the relationship between way-finding behavior, architectural space, communication and image map in the experiments. We find 7 kinds of behavior according to way-finding movement and conversation. Transition of behavior is changed after finding the goal, and different between competitive-cooperative experiment and cooperative experiment. Subjects tend to transfer their behavior before finding the goal by influence of architectural space and communication, and after finding the goal by influence of other pedestrians' positions and internal reason of subject. Subjects who prefer "finding a goal together" communicate willingly and can draw image map of the maze in detail after way-finding.
Toshitomo Suzuki, Akihiro Ito, Hirotaka Masuda, Masato Kuroiwa, Kazuhiko Yanagisawa and Shigeyuki Okazaki, Cooperative Communication in Way-finding- Way-finding with Communication in a Virtual Maze, Part 1 -,Proceeding of the Kansai Branch of the Japanese Ergonomics Society, the Annual Meeting '99, pp.147-152, 1999.12 (in Japanese)There exist almost no experimental studies on the relationship of communication with architectural space and walking in way-finding. In this study, we constructed multi-user network of virtual reality and made an experiment on way-finding of three subjects together in a virtual maze. In the experiment, all avatars of subjects entered a same starting point in the virtual maze, and were asked to gather at a goal. There were there patterns of communication in this experiment because the arrival times at the goal varied with the subjects. On each pattern, we studied about the relationship of communication with architectural space and walking. PDF(in Japanese, 2,110KB)
Akihiro Ito, Toshitomo Suzuki, Hirotaka Masuda, Masato Kuroiwa and Shigeyuki Okazaki, Knowledge Sharing Process by Cooperative Communication- Way-finding with Communication in a Virtual Maze, Part 2 -,Proceeding of the Kansai Branch of the Japanese Ergonomics Society, the Annual Meeting '99, pp.153-158, 1999.12 (in Japanese)PDF(in Japanese, 2,168KB)
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