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Indoor pedestrian navigation systems: is more than one landmark needed for efficient self-localization?

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Christina Bauer,

Manuel Müller,

Bernd LudwigAuthors Info & Claims

MUM '16: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

Pages 75 - 79

https://doi.org/10.1145/3012709.3012728

Published: 12 December 2016 Publication History

Abstract

Research examining pedestrian navigation systems that use landmarks to explain routes became popular in the past years. Nevertheless, it is still an open question how many landmarks should be depicted at once. In this paper a user study is presented that evaluates two different indoor navigation system designs that depict either one (N = 63) or four (N = 60) landmarks to guide the user. The time it took the participants to recognize where to go was captured as a dependent variable. Results show that the interface only depicting one landmark leads to faster self-localization. Therefore, it is argued that a pedestrian navigation system should mainly depict one highly salient landmark in a navigation instruction in order to keep navigation efficiency high.

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Indoor pedestrian navigation systems: is more than one landmark needed for efficient self-localization?
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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MUM '16: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

December 2016

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DOI:10.1145/3012709

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