Designing Space in Virtual Environments for Aiding Wayfinding Behaviour

: The aim of this paper is to develop an architectural way of thinking about designing space in a virtual environment, in order to inform human wayfinding behaviour. Several generic objects and spatial elements that a virtual environment consists of are suggested, their spatial significance and formal characteristics are identified and the way that these affect human wayfinding behaviour is also considered. Keywords: Virtual environment design, human factors of virtual environments. 1. Introduction 1.1 Aim and context This paper documents a research project which deals with the architectural aspect of virtual environment (VE) design. The aim of this project is to develop an architectural way of thinking about designing space in a VE by studying the significance of spatial elements in a VE for human wayfinding behaviour. Designing Space in Virtual Environments for Aiding Wayfinding Behaviour 51 51 VR may be considered as the ultimate medium for producing representations of architect..