Jacob, Ricky and Winstanley, Adam C. and Togher, Naomi and Roche, Richard and Mooney, Peter
(2012)
Pedestrian navigation using the sense of touch.
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 36.
pp. 513-525.
ISSN 0198-9715
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. Historically,
human–computer interaction has been visual, data, or images on a screen. Haptic feedback can be an
important modality in Mobile Location-Based Services like – knowledge discovery, pedestrian navigation
and notification systems. In this paper we describe a methodology for the implementation of haptics in
four distinct prototypes for pedestrian navigation. Prototypes are classified based on the user’s navigation
guidance requirements, the user type (based on spatial skills), and overall system complexity. Here haptics
is used to convey location, orientation, and distance information to users using pedestrian navigation
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. We also tested the spatial ability of the user
to navigate using haptics and landmark images based navigation. This was followed by a test of memory
recall about the area. Users were able to successfully navigate from a given origin to a Destination Point
without the use of a visual interface like a map. Results show the users of haptic feedback for navigation
prepared better maps (better memory recall) of the region as compared to the users of landmark images
based navigation.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Additional Information: |
The definitive version of this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2012.10.001 © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 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. We thank all the students
who took part in the user trials. We acknowledge the inputs from
our colleagues at the Department of Psychology. The authors gratefully
acknowledge this support. |
| Keywords: |
Haptics; Pedestrian navigation; Orientation; Memory recall; Cognition; Spatial abilities; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science |
| Item ID: |
5826 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2012.10.001 |
| Depositing User: |
Peter Mooney
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| Date Deposited: |
16 Feb 2015 17:28 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems |
| Publisher: |
Elsevier |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Funders: |
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) |
| URI: |
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| 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
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