A Real-World Study of an Audio-Tactile Tourist Guide
Szymczak, Delphine; Rassmus-Gröhn, Kirsten; Magnusson, Charlotte; Hedvall, Per-Olof (2012). A Real-World Study of an Audio-Tactile Tourist Guide Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services, 335 - 344. MobileHCI '12. San Francisco, United States: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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Authors:
Szymczak, Delphine
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Rassmus-Gröhn, Kirsten
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Magnusson, Charlotte
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Hedvall, Per-Olof
Department:
Certec - Rehabilitation Engineering and Design
Audio-Haptic Interactive Design-lup-obsolete
Project:
HaptiMap - Haptic, Audio and Visual Interfaces for Maps and Location Based Services
Research Group:
Audio-Haptic Interactive Design-lup-obsolete
Abstract:
This paper reports on the in-context evaluation of an audio-tactile interactive tourist guide - one test was done in a medieval city center, and the other was done at an archaeological site. The activity theory framework was used as a perspective to guide design, field-study and analysis. The evaluation shows that the guide allows users to experience an augmented reality, while keeping the environment in focus (in contrast with the common key-hole like experience that on-screen augmented reality generates). The evaluation also confirms the usefulness of extending the vibrational feedback to convey also distance information as well as directional information.
Keywords:
Navigation ;
multimodal ;
augmented reality ;
non-visual ;
inclusive
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