Behavioral Data on Landmark Use for Route Retracing in Unfamiliar Environments

Lu Cheng published this dataset on figshare in 2026. It contains behavioral evidence from an empirical study investigating the compensatory effects of self-selected landmarks on individuals with a poor sense of direction during a route retracing task in an unfamiliar real-world environment. The dataset is 70.9 KB in size and is shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing compensatory effects of self-selected landmarks based on the described route retracing task.
• Comparing landmark use consistency and recall response times between groups with good and poor sense of direction.
• Investigating the relationship between outbound-return landmark consistency and landmark recall response time.
• Evaluating cross-group fairness in navigational performance based on the study's findings.

Strengths

• Dataset is based on an empirical study conducted in a real-world unfamiliar environment.
• Results include specific quantitative findings, such as landmark recall response time being shortened by approximately 47%–49%.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Empirical study based on a route retracing task.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-25 07:00:56; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Unfamiliar real-world environment; specific location not stated.