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Navigation in outdoor environments as an embodied, social, cultural, and situated experience: an empirical study of orienteering

Mottet, M.; Eccles, D.W.; Saury, J.

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Authors

M. Mottet

D.W. Eccles

J. Saury



Abstract

This study investigated novices' “lived experiences” of navigation within the sport of orienteering from an enactive and phenomenological approach. The objective was to qualitatively characterize elements of task-related situations that were meaningful for orienteers. The results showed that the participants continuously made judgments about the reliability of their estimations about whether they were on “the right route” on the course. When the participants judged that they were only approximately on the right route or were unable to locate themselves, elements of the situation other than map and terrain features became meaningful for them. These results demonstrate that, for novice orienteers, navigation activity must extend beyond navigation as a logical, computational way-finding problem to include embodied, social, cultural and situated dimensions.

Citation

Mottet, M., Eccles, D., & Saury, J. (2016). Navigation in outdoor environments as an embodied, social, cultural, and situated experience: an empirical study of orienteering. Spatial Cognition & Computation, 16(3), 220-243. https://doi.org/10.1080/13875868.2016.1166229

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date Mar 30, 2016
Publication Date Jul 1, 2016
Deposit Date Mar 8, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 30, 2017
Journal Spatial Cognition and Computation
Print ISSN 1387-5868
Electronic ISSN 1542-7633
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 16
Issue 3
Pages 220-243
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/13875868.2016.1166229

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