Paper Info
Title
Gestural navigation in Google Earth
Abstract
Geographical Information Systems (GISs) are playing an increasingly important role in society. Not only have the capabilities of GIS packages expanded, but their spectrum has been widened by the popularisation of software such as Google Earth, which has added an extra dimension to navigation, while still using the same interaction method. We argue that traditional GIS interfaces limit productivity by not being sufficiently intuitive to new users and by causing extra delay due to unnecessary modality. As a step on the road to solving these problems, we propose an ideal gesture-based system and present the results of a mostly qualitative user-experiment on our current prototype for gestural navigation in Google Earth, which back up our assumptions about the importance of gestural interactions being both bimanual and simultaneous.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/2071536.2071580
OZCHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
gestural navigation,current prototype,important role,google earth,ideal gesture-based system,traditional gis interfaces limit,gestural interaction,extra delay,extra dimension,geographical information systems,interaction,navigation,user experience,geographic information system,gesture,gis,spectrum
Information system,Computer science,Gesture,Human–computer interaction,Software,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.75
4
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Simon Stannus181.08
Daniel Rolf2172.21
Arko Lucieer345546.51
Winyu Chinthammit43410.94