Urban exploration using audio scents

Komninos, Andreas; Barrie, Peter; Stefanis, Vassilios; Πλέσσας, Αθανάσιος

doi:10.1145/2371574.2371629

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“…Eyes-free interaction techniques, to allow focusing on the environment and provide "crow flies" bearing feedback to avoid the constraints of strict turn-byturn approaches have been developed [2,15,17,19,24,26].…”

Section: Navigation Systems For Pedestriansmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, some systems in the literature support tourists in in-situ navigation phases, letting them keep their visual attention in the surroundings and make detours when they see something interesting [15,17,19]. However, these still require the user to specify a destination, so they do not support tourists on an exploration phase walking the streets based on things appearing in front of them.…”

Section: How Do Tourists Switch Between Different Types Of Navigationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Phases of Urban Tourists' Exploratory Navigation

Vaittinen

McGookin

2016

Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

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There is a lack of widely available mobile map applications that effectively support pedestrian tourists who prefer the freedom of exploring their surroundings, and might not have an explicit destination they are trying to reach in mind. Although research systems to support such exploratory navigation have been developed, these are often only studied in controlled trials. It is therefore unclear if researchers are covering all types of navigation tourists do. To get a comprehensive picture of tourists' navigation, we carried out a field study with 16 tourists, shadowing them during part of their visit to Helsinki. Our findings support designers of mobile applications by describing the phases and dynamics of exploration and wayfinding, as well as how existing popular navigation tools are used during exploration. The phases contribute towards a framework for assessing existing tools and developing new ones to cover all navigation activities tourists undertake. We present 5 design implications to support creating tools that take into account the real-world insights collected in the study.

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Section: Navigation Systems For Pedestriansmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: How Do Tourists Switch Between Different Types Of Navigationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Phases of Urban Tourists' Exploratory Navigation

Vaittinen

McGookin

2016

Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

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“…Therefore, users do not need to pay attention to the device display and they can focus on their surroundings during navigation. Similarly, SoNav presents audio feedback to guide the users back to a route if they decide to explore something on the way [8]. In Allen's [2] terms, these systems help users aiming to reach novel destinations but since they assume that the user specifies the destination one wishes to visit before starting the travel they do not focus on the kind of exploration where the user just wants to discover what is around him or her.…”

Section: Prior Research On Systems Supporting Exploratory Travelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Even though systems like Block Party, AudioGPS and ONTRACK have been built to reduce the effort to find venues, their evaluations have not concentrated on the exploratory behavior these systems generate [6][7][8][9][10]. Since the focus has been on the navigation, the participants have fulfilled tasks that researchers have given them and have not been exploring areas to satisfy their curiosity.…”

Section: Prior Research On Systems Supporting Exploratory Travelmentioning

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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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Virtual environments with soundscapes: a study on immersion and effects of spatial abilities

Chandrasekera

Yoon

D’souza

2015

Environ Plann B Plann Des

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In this study we explore how soundscapes can be used as navigational aids in virtual environments and empirically investigate the correlation between immersiveness in virtual environments and spatial abilities when soundscapes are used as landmarks for wayfinding. We attempt to advance knowledge regarding auditory cues contributing to enhanced immersive and navigational experience in virtual environments. Findings are likely to be utilized in effective design for physical environments and wayfinding.

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Urban exploration using audio scents

Cited by 17 publications

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Phases of Urban Tourists' Exploratory Navigation

Phases of Urban Tourists' Exploratory Navigation

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

Virtual environments with soundscapes: a study on immersion and effects of spatial abilities

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