%0 Journal Article
%T A Navigation Algorithm Inspired by Human Navigation
%A Vijesh M.
%A Sudarshan Iyengar
%A Vijay Mahantesh
%A Amitash Ramesh
%A Veni Madhavan
%J Computer Science
%D 2011
%I arXiv
%X Human navigation has been a topic of interest in spatial cognition from the past few decades. It has been experimentally observed that humans accomplish the task of way-finding a destination in an unknown environment by recognizing landmarks. Investigations using network analytic techniques reveal that humans, when asked to way-find their destination, learn the top ranked nodes of a network. In this paper we report a study simulating the strategy used by humans to recognize the centers of a network. We show that the paths obtained from our simulation has the same properties as the paths obtained in human based experiment. The simulation thus performed leads to a novel way of path-finding in a network. We discuss the performance of our method and compare it with the existing techniques to find a path between a pair of nodes in a network.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.4898v1