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Ruth Conroy Dalton
British architect and author
Ruth Conroy Dalton is a British architect, author[1] and Professor of Architecture at Northumbria University. She has authored or contributed to more than 200 publications.[2] She is an expert in space syntax analysis, pedestrian movement and wayfinding and a world-leading authority on the overlap between architecture and spatial cognition (architectural cognition).
She is known for her work on using virtual reality to research wayfinding behaviours; her theories on how people try to limit their cumulative angular deviation when wayfinding;[3] applying angular weightings to standard space syntax axial analysis (with Nick Dalton and Alasdair Turner); adding depth decay functions to network graphs (also with Nick Dalton); using small graph matching techniques to research building typology and, most recently, her work on social wayfinding.[4]