Strachan, Steven and Murray-Smith, Roderick (2009) Bearing-based selection in mobile spatial interaction. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 13 (4). pp. 265-280. ISSN 1617-4909

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Abstract

We introduce a mobile spatial interactive application that uses a combination of a GPS, inertial sensing, gestural interaction, probabilistic models and Monte Carlo sampling, with vibration and audio feedback. This system allows the probing or querying of targets in a local area, based on a model of the local environment and specific context variables of interest, to enable a rich, embodied and location–aware spatial interaction. An experiment was conducted to investigate how spatial target selection at different distances, target separations and target widths is affected by a system with added ‘typical’ noise characteristics. Results showed that the successful selection of targets in the virtual environment is maximised with a combination of high angular separation and angular width.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Postprint version of original published article. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com (DOI 10.1007/s00779-008-0205-4). We are grateful for support from:SFI grants 00/ PI.1/C067, 00/RFP06/CMS052, EPSRC project EP/E042740/1, IST Programme of the European Commission, under PASCAL Network of Excellence, IST 2002-506778, and OpenInterface Project. Nokia provided a donation of funds and equipment which further supported this work.
Keywords:	GPS; Navigation; Uncertainty; Monte Carlo; Feedback; Audio; Tracking; Probabilistic display; Context; Selection;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Hamilton Institute
Item ID:	2818
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-008-0205-4
Depositing User:	Hamilton Editor
Date Deposited:	09 Nov 2011 15:31
Journal or Publication Title:	Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Publisher:	Springer Verlag
Refereed:	Yes
Funders:	Science Foundation Ireland, IST Programme of the European Commission, OpenInterface Project, Nokia, EPSRC project
URI:	http://www.springerlink.com
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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