Jacob, Ricky and Mooney, Peter and Corcoran, Padraig and Winstanley, Adam C.
(2011)
A flexible model for haptic-assisted pedestrian navigation
mobile applications.
In: 11th International Conference on GeoComputation, 20-22 July 2011, UCL, London.
Abstract
Pedestrian navigation applications, specifically for mobile devices, have received much research
and development attention over the past decade or so with many different types of
solutions developed (Kenteris et al.; 2011). The most common interface is a map-based interface
with written and/or verbal turn-by-turn directions (possibly including landmark information).
Haptic technology, or haptics, is a tactile feedback technology that takes advantage
of our sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations, and/or motions to the user (Nakao et al.;
2010). The potential of haptic technology has only recently started to receive the attention of
the research community (Jacob et al.; 2010). In mobile devices haptic-feedback is delivered
in the form of vibrations which can be programmatically controlled using the phone software
API. In this paper we describe a simple, flexible, model for the integration of haptic
feedback into pedestrian navigation applications on mobile devices. A constraint is that the
mobile device must have an onboard GPS and compass. The vibration motor on the mobile
device must also be capable of being controlled from software running on the device itself.
Our model allows a “heads up” approach to pedestrian navigation with the mobile device
where the user is not required to keep looking down to check the screen of the mobile device.
For testing purposes text-based navigation assistance is provided in conjunction with
the haptic-feedback on the device screen in our prototype implementation. Three distinct
modes of vibration of the device are used to provide haptic feedback to the user.
| Item Type: |
Conference or Workshop Item
(Paper)
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| Additional Information: |
Research presented in this paper was funded by a Strategic Research Cluster grant (07/SRC/I1168)
by Science Foundation Ireland under the National Development Plan. Peter Mooney is
funded by the Irish Environmental Protection Agency STRIVE programme (grant 2008-FSDM-
14-S4). |
| Keywords: |
haptic-assisted pedestrian navigation; Haptic technology;
mobile applications; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science |
| Item ID: |
4972 |
| Depositing User: |
Dr. Adam Winstanley
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| Date Deposited: |
21 May 2014 14:36 |
| Refereed: |
No |
| Funders: |
Science Foundation Ireland, Irish Environmental Protection Agency STRIVE programme |
| URI: |
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| Use Licence: |
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