You are here : why we can find our way to the Moon but get lost in the mall / Colin Ellard. [electronic resource]

An eye-opening exploration of the intriguing and often counter-intuitive science of human navigation and experience of place.In the age of GPS and iPhones, human beings it would seem have mastered the art of direction, but does the need for these devices signal something elsethat as a species we are actually hopelessly lost. In factwe've filled our world with signs and arrows.Westill get lost in the mall,or a maze of cubicles.Whatdoes this say about us? Drawing on his exhaustive research, Professor Collin Ellard illuminates how humans are disconnected from our world and what this means, not just for how we get from A to B, but also for how we construct our cities, our workplaces, our homes, and even our lives.