Comparing conceptual designs for mobile access to geo-spatial information

Abstract

Spatial information appliances (SIA), which enable mobile users to interact with the physical environment, have recently received an increasing amount of interest from the research community. This paper presents a comparative outdoor user study on conceptual designs for 4 interaction areas considered important for SIAs: selection, search, information sniffing, and remote viewing. Implications for future research are discussed.

Visual Presentation Challenges for Mobile Spatial Applications: Three Case Studies

“…Previous empirical research has partly substantiated this hypothesis, at least for indoor navigation [9] . Our comparative user study with a Wizard-of-Oz prototype showed that POIs are much easier accessible with orientation-aware displays than with a standard static version [6] .…”

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“…In Gardiner 2004;Chan et al 2005;Fröhlich et al 2006;Fröhlich 2007a, 2007b;Simon, Fröhlich, and Grechenig 2008;Gardiner, Yin, and Carswell 2009;Carswell, Gardiner and Yin 2010a), the idea of an egocentric view of the world is investigated in a mobile context. In , the idea of using a triangular 2D shape to represent a user's field-of-view (FOv) to query POIs stored in a spatial database was introduced.…”

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