Paper Info
Title
User experiences with activity-based navigation on mobile devices
Abstract
We introduce activity-based navigation, which uses human activities derived from sensor data to help people navigate, in particular to retrace a "trail" previously taken by that person or another person. Such trails may include step counts, walking up/down stairs or taking elevators, compass directions, and photos taken along a user's path, in addition to absolute positioning (GPS and maps) when available. To explore the user experience of activity-based navigation, we built Greenfield, a mobile device interface for finding a car. We conducted a ten participant user study comparing users' ability to find cars across three different presentations of activity-based information as well as verbal instructions. Our results show that activity-based navigation can be used for car finding and suggest its promise more generally for supporting navigation tasks. We present lessons for future activity-based navigation interfaces, and motivate further work in this space, particularly in the area of robust activity inference.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1851600.1851616
Mobile HCI
Keywords
Field
DocType
car finding,absolute positioning,compass direction,activity-based information,participant user study,mobile device,different presentation,user experience,activity-based navigation,future activity-based navigation interface,navigation task,navigation,sensor fusion
User experience design,Computer science,Turn-by-turn navigation,Cardinal direction,Sensor fusion,Mobile device,Human–computer interaction,Global Positioning System,Mobile robot navigation,User interface design,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
1.09
23
Authors
11
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
A. J. Bernheim Brush11771115.75
Amy K. Karlson2102748.44
James Scott33121235.65
Raman Sarin477868.77
Andy Jacobs529841.83
Barry Bond6462.80
Oscar Murillo7141.09
Galen C. Hunt888961.08
Mike Sinclair976476.87
Kerry Hammil10846.46
Steven Levi11332.42