Analysis of verbal route descriptions and landmarks for hiking

Sarjakoski, L. Tiina; Kettunen, Pyry; Flink, Hanna-Marika; Laakso, Mari; Rönneberg, Mikko; Sarjakoski, Tapani

doi:10.1007/s00779-011-0460-7

Cited by 26 publications

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“…Individuals in the HCI community have recently begun to explore the role of HCI in outdoor recreation. Some of this work has involved probing an idea in a specific application area such as hiking [13,14], skiing [6,3], rock climbing [9,10], or bicycling [2,11]. Others explore design themes or lenses for specific activities such as skateboarding [12] or for specific groups of individuals such as amateur runners [8].…”

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HCI Outdoors

Jones

Anderson

Häkkilä

et al. 2018

Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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HCI in outdoor recreation is a growing research area. While papers investigating systems in specific domains, such as biking, climbing, or skiing, are beginning to appear, the broader community is just beginning to form. The community still seems to lack a cohesive agenda for advancing our understanding of this application domain. The goal of this workshop is to bring together individuals interested in HCI outdoors to review past work, build a unifying research agenda, share ongoing work, encourage collaboration, and make plans for future meetings. The workshop will result in a report containing a research agenda, extensive annotated bibliography, an article about this topic and plans for unifying the community at future meetings.

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confidence: 99%

HCI Outdoors

Jones

Anderson

Häkkilä

et al. 2018

Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…For instance, Snowdon and Kray (2009) showed how in typical rural enviroments, water courses and peaks (hills and mountains) are the most commonly identified landmarks people use to help them navigate. Sarjakoski, et al (2011) then extended this (and others) to show how enviromental elements impact people's landmark preferences.…”

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D'Orazio

Lueg

2012

Proceedings of the 24th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference

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Many tools, techniques and devices have been developed to support people traversing their environment. In this paper we report findings from a series of realistic outdoor experiments conducted to understand the comparative, task-specific strengths and limitations of a GPS-enabled navigation map and egocentric navigation systems. These tasks included both macro-and micro-navigation aspects. Our findings suggest that while GPS-enabled navigation maps are preferred for moving over larger distances (macro-navigation), their inability to support micro navigation resulted in a notable decrease in the ability of users to locate their desired points of interest. In contrast to this the egocentric navigation system performs well in micro-navigation but relatively weaker in macronavigation. We conclude that a better system would allow users to switch between map-based and egocentric views in order to use a GPS system for the macro-navigation, and an egocentric system for micro-navigation.

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“…In some studies (e.g. [22], [23]), the participants are asked to describe an environment without relating the noticed elements to a wayfinding task. Here, it is questionable whether the described elements can be considered landmarks as they are not used in a navigational context.…”

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Thinking aloud in search of landmark characteristics in an indoor environment

Viaene

Vanclooster

Ooms

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2014 Ubiquitous Positioning Indoor Navigation and Location Based Service (UPINLBS)

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The last decade has seen an increase in the attention towards indoor space and its applications. Within this research topic, landmarks play an important role as these distinct objects exert important functions in the context of navigation and in the construction of a cognitive model of an environment. However, compared to outdoor research, little research has been conducted related to indoor landmarks and their specific characteristics with respect to their use and description. Therefore, the presented study aims to investigate when or where landmarks are mostly needed during a navigational task in a building and how they are verbally expressed. In order to examine these aspects, eleven test persons completed a route in a complex building. While navigating, they had to think out loud and their verbal descriptions were analyzed and compared. The results of this study show that landmarks were most needed on locations where a change of orientation took place. In addition, most referrals were made to objects near the observer. Furthermore, participants preferred to use common nouns to refer to a landmark and more detailing was given by specifying color and material. Finally, the results indicate that predominantly the same elements form the basis to identify an indoor landmark as an outdoor landmark, namely visual, structural and semantic features.

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Analysis of verbal route descriptions and landmarks for hiking

Cited by 26 publications

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