Dr. rer. nat. Jan Wiener
Senior Lecturer The School of Design, Engineering and Computing

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My research focuses primarily on navigation and wayfinding behaviour. Successful navigation is a fundamental behavioural problem that involves multiple cognitive components and complex information processing. In order to address these issues I make use of different methods such as behavioural navigation experiments, virtual reality techniques, eye-tracking, and cognitive modelling.

In the last years my research interest has focussed on the relation of gaze and wayfinding behaviour. First results from wayfinding experiments suggest that gaze is task specific, reflects spatial decision making and intended movements, and tends towards high information density. It thus appears that eye-movements are a suitable indicator of underlying cognitive processes and the environmental features (e.g., geometry, landmarks) that are attended to during navigation. Future experiments will further explore what visual attention can tell us about the information processing underlying successful navigation.

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