Gestural navigation in Google Earth

Stannus, Simon; Rolf, Daniel; Lucieer, Arko; Chinthammit, Winyu

doi:10.1145/2071536.2071580

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“…The controls and their use can be seen in Figure 9 . These controls are similar to other controls found on well-known virtual globe apps, such as Google Earth [ 36 ], easing the user adaptation to the system.…”

Section: Sensor Data Visualization Through Smartport Rich Internetmentioning

confidence: 56%

SmartPort: A Platform for Sensor Data Monitoring in a Seaport Based on FIWARE

Fernández

Santana

Ortega

et al. 2016

Sensors

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Seaport monitoring and management is a significant research area, in which infrastructure automatically collects big data sets that lead the organization in its multiple activities. Thus, this problem is heavily related to the fields of data acquisition, transfer, storage, big data analysis and information visualization. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria port is a good example of how a seaport generates big data volumes through a network of sensors. They are placed on meteorological stations and maritime buoys, registering environmental parameters. Likewise, the Automatic Identification System (AIS) registers several dynamic parameters about the tracked vessels. However, such an amount of data is useless without a system that enables a meaningful visualization and helps make decisions. In this work, we present SmartPort, a platform that offers a distributed architecture for the collection of the port sensors’ data and a rich Internet application that allows the user to explore the geolocated data. The presented SmartPort tool is a representative, promising and inspiring approach to manage and develop a smart system. It covers a demanding need for big data analysis and visualization utilities for managing complex infrastructures, such as a seaport.

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Section: Sensor Data Visualization Through Smartport Rich Internetmentioning

confidence: 56%

SmartPort: A Platform for Sensor Data Monitoring in a Seaport Based on FIWARE

Fernández

Santana

Ortega

et al. 2016

Sensors

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“…In an approach adapted from touch screen technology, grab and zoom gestures are used to provide a gestural interface to Google Earth R [1], [2]. 'Active areas' combined with arm gestures are another control mechanism.…”

Section: Enabling Exploration Through Movementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Heritage through time and space supporting community reflection on the highland clearances

McCaffery

Miller

Kennedy

et al. 2013

2013 Digital Heritage International Congress (DigitalHeritage)

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Abstract-On the two hundredth anniversary of the Kildonan clearances, when people were forcibly removed from their homes, the Timespan Heritage centre has created a program of community centred work aimed at challenging pre conceptions and encouraging reflection on this important historical process. This paper explores the innovative ways in which virtual world technology has facilitated community engagement, enhanced visualisation and encouraged reflection as part of this program.An installation where users navigate through a reconstruction of pre clearance Caen township is controlled through natural gestures and presented on a 300 inch six megapixel screen. This environment allows users to experience the past in new ways. The platform has value as an effective way for an educator, artist or hobbyist to create large scale virtual environments using off the shelf hardware and open source software. The result is an exhibit that also serves as a platform for experimentation into innovative ways of community co-creation and co-curation.

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“…GIS have expanded their functionalities including geovisualization that studies interactive display and exploration of spatiotemporal data (Stannus et al, 2011). Recently, GIS have become popular especially due to software such as Google Earth.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…When users employ their hands in three-dimensional spaces to interact with the interface instead of moving a device we call this type of interaction "gestural user interface". In gestural interfaces, the learning curve tends to shrink, since the user reproduces the same movements performed in the real world, thus they probably spend less time learning new interaction metaphors (Rizzo et al, 2005;Stannus et al, 2011). Although gestures are a powerful mode of interaction, cultural differences/conventions can make it difficult to interact with such interfaces (Norman, 2010), leading to an adaptation process.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The NInA Framework - Using Gesture to Improve Interaction and Collaboration in Geographical Information Systems

Chino

Romani

Avalhais

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

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Nowadays, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have expanded their functionalities including larger interactive displays exploration of spatiotemporal data with several views. These systems maintain a traditional navigation method based on keyboard and mouse, interaction devices not well suited for large screens nor for collaborative work. This paper aims at showing the applicability of new devices to fill the usability gap for the scenario of large screens presentation, interaction and collaboration. New gesture-based devices have been proposed and adopted in games and medical applications, for example. This paper presents the NInA Framework, which allows an integration of natural user interface (NUI) on GIS, with the advantage of being expandable, as new demands are posed to that systems. The validation process of our NInA Kinect-based framework was made through user experiments involving specialists and non-specialists in TerrainViewer, a geographical information system, as well as experts and non-experts in the Kinect technology. The results showed that a NUI approach demands a short learning time, with just a couple of interactions and instructions, and the user is ready to go. Moreover, the users demonstrated greater satisfaction, leading to their productivity improvement.

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Gestural navigation in Google Earth

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

SmartPort: A Platform for Sensor Data Monitoring in a Seaport Based on FIWARE

SmartPort: A Platform for Sensor Data Monitoring in a Seaport Based on FIWARE

Exploring Heritage through time and space supporting community reflection on the highland clearances

The NInA Framework - Using Gesture to Improve Interaction and Collaboration in Geographical Information Systems

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