Map Navigation with Mobile Devices

Map Navigation with Mobile Devices: Virtual versus Physical Movement with and without Visual Context

Map navigation on mobile devices is an area of growing importance. However, navigating in large-scale maps on small displays is difficult. In traditional scrolling and panning interfaces with joystick or touch screen input the virtual map moves and the device stays static. In dynamic peephole interfaces the physical device moves and the virtual map is spatially fixed with respect to the environment. We present two camera-based dynamic peephole interfaces for mobile map navigation. The first tracks a camera-enabled mobile device above a predefined pattern and allows for panning and zooming by physical movement in 3-D space. The second combines the advantages of paper maps with those of digital maps. It uses the camera display unit as a magic lens that tracks the device above a paper map in real-time and provides augmented reality overlays with dynamic geospatial data. The printed map allows for quick orientation and provides large-scale information in the visual periphery. A user study demonstrates the advantage of dynamic over static peephole interaction in terms of search time and degree of exploration of the search space.

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• handy
• smartphone
• pda
• googlemaps
• phone
• mobile
• map
• maps
• navigation
• iPhone
• research
• ifgi
• Münster
• germany
• icmi
• 2007

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system/maps

[alex681219]

How can I use it with an iphone and aboardgame for childrens? is there some software available?

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