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Map navigation with mobile devices: virtual versus physical movement with and without visual context

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Johannes Schöning,

Antonio KrügerAuthors Info & Claims

ICMI '07: Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Multimodal interfaces

Pages 146 - 153

https://doi.org/10.1145/1322192.1322219

Published: 12 November 2007 Publication History

Abstract

A user study was conducted to compare the performance of three methods for map navigation with mobile devices. These methods are joystick navigation, the dynamic peephole method without visual context, and the magic lens paradigm using external visual context. The joystick method is the familiar scrolling and panning of a virtual map keeping the device itself static. In the dynamic peephole method the device is moved and the map is fixed with respect to an external frame of reference, but no visual information is present outside the device's display. The magic lens method augments an external content with graphical overlays, hence providing visual context outside the device display. Here too motion of the device serves to steer navigation. We compare these methods in a study measuring user performance, motion patterns, and subjective preference via questionnaires. The study demonstrates the advantage of dynamic peephole and magic lens interaction over joystick interaction in terms of search time and degree of exploration of the search space.

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Map navigation with mobile devices: virtual versus physical movement with and without visual context
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Touch screens
    2. Interaction paradigms

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ICMI '07: Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Multimodal interfaces

November 2007

402 pages

ISBN:9781595938176

DOI:10.1145/1322192

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Nagoya University, Japan
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UC Santa Cruz, USA
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Nagoya University, Japan
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MIT, USA
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Technical University of Crete, Greece

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