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Zhou, Huiyuan; Edrah, Aisha; MacKay, Bonnie; Reilly, Derek

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“…These technologies have constantly changed how pedestrians learn and interact with location-based information, especially in urban exploratory activities. For instance, some studies and applications have applied augmented reality location-based games and exploratory navigation for entertainment, tourism, and urban exploration [11][12][13][14][15][16][17] to enhance user experience.…”

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Exploring the Design of a Mixed-Reality 3D Minimap to Enhance Pedestrian Satisfaction in Urban Exploratory Navigation

Zhang

Nakajima

2022

Future Internet

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The development of ubiquitous computing technology and the emergence of XR could provide pedestrian navigation with more options for user interfaces and interactions. In this work, we aim investigate the role of a mixed-reality map interface in urban exploration to enhance pedestrians’ mental satisfaction. We propose a mixed-reality 3D minimap as a part of the navigation interface which pedestrians could refer to and interact during urban exploration. To further explore the different levels of detail of the map interface, we conducted a user study (n = 28, two groups with two tasks). We designed two exploratory activities as experimental tasks with two map modes (a normal one and a simplified one) to discuss the detailed design of the minimap interface. The results indicated that participants showed a positive attitude toward our method. The simplified map mode could result in a lower perceived workload in both tasks while enhancing performance in specific navigation, such as wayfinding. However, we also found that pedestrians’ preference for the level of detail of the minimap interface is dynamic in navigation. Thus, we suggest discussing the different levels of detail further in specific scenarios. Finally, we also summarize some findings observed during user study for inspiring the study of virtual map interface of future mixed-reality navigation for urban exploration in various scenarios.

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“…In recent years, research on exploratory navigation has arisen [14,16,[25][26][27]. These studies and technologies are applied in entertainment, tourism, and other location-based services, inspiring HCI research on navigation systems.…”

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Exploring the Design of a Mixed-Reality 3D Minimap to Enhance Pedestrian Satisfaction in Urban Exploratory Navigation

Zhang

Nakajima

2022

Future Internet

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Uncover: supporting city exploration with egocentric visualizations of location-based content

Vaittinen

McGookin

2018

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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This paper describes the design and evaluation of Uncover: a mobile application that supports users in exploratory pedestrian behavior to gain situational awareness of their immediate environment. The design was based on guidelines derived from foraging theory and relies on egocentric views, which keep the virtual content automatically aligned with the real world. We carried out two studies with Uncover, which examine the successfulness of design choices aiming to support tourists' city exploration while interfering with experiencing the surroundings as little as possible. A lab study tested the effect of different marker and background types on the time to recognize the direction with most content. The designs performing best were implemented in the final prototype, and a field study analyzed the exploration behavior tourists and visitors exhibited while using it. The study showed that supporting the exploration can be improved by enabling features that are either disabled by default or not available at all in commercial map applications, like egocentric orientation of the map, providing images of venues just by pointing to their direction, and displaying clusters of several venue types.

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Miau

Feiner

2018

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Exploring the Design of a Mixed-Reality 3D Minimap to Enhance Pedestrian Satisfaction in Urban Exploratory Navigation

Exploring the Design of a Mixed-Reality 3D Minimap to Enhance Pedestrian Satisfaction in Urban Exploratory Navigation

Uncover: supporting city exploration with egocentric visualizations of location-based content

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