Interaction with combinations of maps and images for pedestrian navigation and virtual exploration

ABSTRACT

While studies have shown the advantages of map-image-combinations for pedestrian navigation, none of them concentrated on interaction. We suggest to combine an intuitive pitch gesture with the natural peephole metaphor not only for pedestrian navigation but also for virtual exploration with mobile devices and present a first prototype implementing our ideas.

References

1. A. K. Beeharee and A. Steed. A natural wayfinding exploiting photos in pedestrian navigation systems. In MobileHCI '06: Proceedings of the 8th conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services, pages 81--88, New York, NY, USA, 2006. ACM.
2. L. Chittaro and S. Burigat. Augmenting audio messages with visual directions in mobile guides: an evaluation of three approaches. In MobileHCI '05: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices & services, pages 107--114, New York, NY, USA, 2005. ACM.
3. G. W. Fitzmaurice. Situated information spaces and spatially aware palmtop computers. Commun. ACM, 36(7):39--49, July 1993.
4. S. Mehra, P. Werkhoven, and M. Worring. Navigating on handheld displays: Dynamic versus static peephole navigation. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact., 13(4):448--457, 2006.
5. B. Walther-Franks and R. Malaka. Evaluation of an augmented photograph-based pedestrian navigation system. In SG '08: Proceedings of the 9th international symposium on Smart Graphics, pages 94--105, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008. Springer-Verlag.
6. K. P. Yee. Peephole displays: pen interaction on spatially aware handheld computers. In CHI '03: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, pages 1--8, New York, NY, USA, 2003. ACM.

Index Terms

• Human-centered computing

  • Human computer interaction (HCI)

    • Interaction devices

      • Touch screens

    • Interaction paradigms