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Directory Signs, How Effective Are They for Patients?
Hospital directory signs are often cluttered with unnecessary details that do little to help patients. Overloaded maps, artificial building sections, confusing floor numbers, and medical jargon all increase cognitive load rather than reduce it. The only element with consistent value is a simple alphanumeric route code, ideally already provided in appointment details. In most cases, removing 90 percent of directory sign content would have no negative impact on overall wayfinding performance.
How Mathematics Helps Us to Guide Patients in Hospitals
At Eyedog, we guide patients through hospitals with precision, flexibility, and intelligence. By owning every part of our navigation platform and leveraging a highly detailed spatial model, we adapt routes down to the meter. Whether it involves architectural quirks, operational rules, or individual patient preferences, Eyedog calculates the most optimal path instantly. Backed by a continuous feedback loop and powered by Dijkstra’s algorithm, our system ensures that every step patients take is as smooth, clear, and efficient as possible.
15 Common Mistakes / Blunders in Wayfinding Design in Healthcare
ince there are hardly any opportunities to test wayfinding design as a system within a hospital, innovation is slow.
This means we keep making the same mistakes, because if you do what you always did, you'll get what you always got.
When you see paperwork, you can be sure something is wrong. But if you look closer and notice the following things, you know something isn’t right either. 😊
How to Select the Right Digital Wayfinding System for Your Patients
We regularly engage in discussions with hospitals that have recently discovered the added value of digital wayfinding.
Once a hospital has gathered internal support to seriously explore the implementation of a mobile wayfinding system, the real search begins. People have seen all sorts of claims on social media, making it difficult to make the right decisions. So, what should you be looking for, and how do you make proper comparisons?
Confusing Terminology and Patient Wayfinding
Confusing terminology is one of the reasons why people get lost in hospitals (Mollerup, 2009). There are ways to reduce complexity, but somehow we manage to stir in new ones…
Unveiling Eyedog 3.0
As the new year approaches, we're excited to unveil version 3.0 of the Eyedog Wayfinding platform. 🎉
This update is more than a mere enhancement of the navigation interface; it introduces our groundbreaking 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸.