Jacob, Ricky and Mooney, Peter and Winstanley, Adam C.
(2011)
Guided by Touch: Tactile Pedestrian Navigation.
In:
MLBS '11 Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on Mobile location-based service.
ACM, New York, pp. 11-20.
ISBN 978-1-4503-0928-8
Abstract
Haptics is a feedback technology that takes advantage of the
human sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations, and/or
motions to a haptic-enabled user device such as a mobile
phone. In this paper we describe four haptic feedback-based
prototypes for pedestrian navigation. Haptics is used to convey
location, orientation, and distance information to users
using pedestrian navigation applications. We compare the
functionalities of four applications of haptics in such applications.
Initial user trials have elicited positive responses
from the users who see benefit in being provided with a
“heads up” approach to mobile navigation.
| Item Type: |
Book Section
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| Additional Information: |
Research in this paper is carried out as part of the Strategic
Research Cluster grant (07/SRC/I1168) funded by Science
Foundation Ireland under the National Development Plan.
The authors gratefully acknowledge this support. The authors
are also supported by the Irish Environmental Protection
Agency STRIVE programme (grant 2008-FS-DM-14-
S4) |
| Keywords: |
Haptic-feedback; pedestrian navigation; sense of touch; mobile
devices; interfaces; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science |
| Item ID: |
4898 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1145/2025876.2025881 |
| Depositing User: |
Dr. Adam Winstanley
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| Date Deposited: |
16 Apr 2014 10:45 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
MLBS '11 Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on Mobile location-based service |
| Publisher: |
ACM |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Funders: |
Science Foundation Ireland, Irish Environmental Protection Agency STRIVE programme |
| URI: |
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| Use Licence: |
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