{"id":2352,"date":"2022-11-07T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/real\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2025-04-29T14:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T18:07:55","slug":"mental-breadcrumbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/real\/2022\/11\/07\/mental-breadcrumbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Breadcrumbs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-join-us-at-sigradi\">Mental Breadcrumbs: Developing biometric methods to understand how emotions and sensory cues affect wayfinding<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isa He*, Humbi Song*, Zach Seibold, Ibrahim Ibrahim, and PI Allen Sayegh (* first co-authors)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conference:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>SIGraDi 2022 | Critical Appropriations. November 7th-11th, 2022\u00a0<br>XXVI International Conference of the Ibero-American Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi)<br><strong><br>Keywords<\/strong>: Interdisciplinary Design, Biometric, Wayfinding, Sensory Cues, Mental Load\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Questions:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>How do one\u2019s emotions, mental state, and the spatial environment interact? Why are some built environments easier to navigate than others? What spatial cues do people use in wayfinding, and how is it impacted by one\u2019s cognitive load?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/w\/1250\/i\/374dd8acf4a6b66b0d35a2185795c39c25399be7d26ca6563393fab55e30b0e9\/GPS-and-Cognitive-Map.jpg\" alt=\"image of 5 GPS map and 5 sketches\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>Figure 1. GPS maps of the participants\u2019 urban walks (explore + retrace), annotated by the participants with self-reported moments of elevated emotions. Bottom drawings show cognitive maps drawn by the participants.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/w\/1250\/i\/547a6f1c7ce39cb81ebd40b6b99e77f30637dd68f9f687b6f4330d569d0db284\/Wayfinding-Dashboard.jpg\" alt=\"Image of dashboard showing map on top and biometric data on the bottom\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>Figure 2. Dashboard for concurrent analysis of 1) route data, 2) self-reported data, and 3) biometric data, which are mapped onto an unrolled walking path identified as discrete segments.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/temp-real\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-14.32.01-3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/temp-real\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-14.32.01-3.png\" alt=\"zoom presentation by two female researchers\" class=\"wp-image-3657\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.cumincad.org\/cgi-bin\/works\/paper\/sigradi2022_273\">He, Isa; Song, Humbi; Seibold, Zach; Ibrahim, Ibrahim; Sayegh, Allen; &#8220;Mental Breadcrumbs: Developing biometric methods to understand how emotions and sensory cues affect wayfinding&#8221;, p. 869-880 . In: XXVI International Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics. 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