Using Quick Response Codes As An Indoor Wayfinding Tool: Benefits and Limitations

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2022-12

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Tünger, Çetin
İmamoğlu, Çağrı

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Quick Response (QR) code technology can improve many aspects of our lives, including wayfinding. However, since the indoor navigation tools based on QR codes require specific hardware and software, their practical application is limited. To examine this issue, this research aimed to propose and investigate the performance of a lightweight QR codebased wayfinding tool for indoor environments that is low-cost, easy to adapt, and free of location-aware technologies. To do so, we conducted an experimental wayfinding study in a complex university campus building with 38 participants under two conditions: with and without QR codes. We measured wayfinding performance, perceived ease of task, comfort level of the participants, and collected their assessments of the study. To reveal the relationships between the variables and differences between conditions, we conducted the Pearson correlation coefficient test and repeated measure ANOVA. Our findings showed that although the participants completed the wayfinding tasks in the QR code condition at a lower speed and in a longer duration than the no-QR condition, their evaluations were generally more positive. Using QR codes inside complex buildings for indoor wayfinding may prove to be a lightweight and low-cost alternative to YouAre-Here maps, with potential to decrease user anxiety

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Quick response (QR) codes, Wayfinding, Maps, Indoors, Complex buildings, Karekodlar, Yön bulma, Haritalar, Kapalı mekanlar, Karmaşık binalar

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http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/archive/0258-5316/articles/metujfa2022204.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/102819

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