Presenting route instructions on mobile devices

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we evaluate several means of presenting route instructions to a mobile user. Starting from an abstract language-independent description of a route segment, we show how to generate various presentations for a mobile device ranging from spoken instructions to 3D visualizations. We then examine the relationship between the quality of positional information, available resources and the different types of presentations. The paper concludes with guidelines that help to determine which presentation to choose for a given situation

REFERENCES

• 1: Elisabeth André , Thomas Rist, Generating coherent presentations employing textual and visual material, Artificial Intelligence Review, v.9 n.2-3, p.147-165, June 1995 [doi>10.1007/BF00849177]
• 2: Jörg Baus , Christian Kray, Frames of Reference, Positional Information and Navigational Assistance, Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, p.461-465, May 14-16, 2002
• 3: Jörg Baus , Antonio Krüger , Wolfgang Wahlster, A resource-adaptive mobile navigation system, Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces, January 13-16, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA [doi>10.1145/502716.502723]
• 4: Bernsen, N. O., Multimodality in Language and Speech Systems - From Theory to Design Support Tool, in: Granström, ed., Multimodality in Language and Speech Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.
• 5: Anthony G. Cohn, Calculi for Qualitative Spatial Reasoning, Proceedings of the International Conference AISMC-3 on Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Mathematical Computation, p.124-143, September 23-25, 1996
• 6: Christian Elting , Jan Zwickel , Rainer Malaka, Device-dependant modality selection for user-interfaces: an empirical study, Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces, January 13-16, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA [doi>10.1145/502716.502728]
• 7: Sylvie Fontaine , Michel Denis, The Production of Route Instructions in Underground and Urban Environments, Proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Geographic Information Science, p.83-94, August 25-29, 1999
• 8: Hartmann, K., Krüger, A., Schlechtweg, S., Helbing, R., Interaction and Focus: Towards a Coherent Degree of Detail in Graphics, Captions and Text. In: Lorenz, P. and Deussen, O. (Eds), Simulation and Visualization 99, SCS-Society for Computer Simu­lation Int., Erlangen, 1999.
• 9: Hunt, E., and Waller, D., Orientation and wayfinding: A review. (ONR technical report N00014-96-0380). Arlington, VA: Office of Naval Research, 1999.
• 10: Jenkins, L., Myerson, J., Joerding, J. A., Hale, S.: Converging Evidence that Visualspatial Cognition is more Age-sensitive than Verbal Cognition. In: Psychology and Aging, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2000.
• 11: Daniel A. Keim , Hans-Peter Krigel, VisDB: Database Exploration Using Multidimensional Visualization, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, v.14 n.5, p.40-49, September 1994 [doi>10.1109/38.310723]
• 12: Christian Kray , Anselm Blocher, Modeling the Basic Meanings of Path Relations, Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, p.384-393, July 31-August 06, 1999
• 13: Krüger, A., Automatische Abstraktion in 3D-Graphiken, Dissertationen zur Künstlichen Intelligenz, Bd 232, Akad. Verl.-Ge. Aka, 2000 (in German).
• 14: Malaka, R., and Zipf, A., DEEP MAP - Challenging IT research in the framework of a tourist information system. Proc. 7th International Congress on Tourism and Communication Technologies in Tourism (ENTER 2000), Barcelona, Spain, 2000.
• 15: Rakkolainen, I., Timmerheid, J., Vainio, T., A 3D City Info for Mobile Users, Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop in Intelligent Interactive Assistance and Mobile Multimedia Computing (IMC2000), November 9-10, 2000, Rockstock, Germany, 115--212.
• 16: Jarek Rossignac, Edgebreaker: Connectivity Compression for Triangle Meshes, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, v.5 n.1, p.47-61, January 1999 [doi>10.1109/2945.764870]
• 17: Mark T. Maybury , Wolf Wahlster, Intelligent user interfaces: an introduction, Readings in intelligent user interfaces, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, 1998

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.2 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
      I.2.1 Applications and Expert Systems
          Subjects: Cartography

Additional Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.2 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
      I.2.1 Applications and Expert Systems
          Subjects: Natural language interfaces
  I.3 COMPUTER GRAPHICS
      I.3.8 Applications

General Terms:
Design, Experimentation, Human Factors, Languages

Keywords:
mobile devices, multimodal presentations, positional information, route instructions