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A Real-World Study of an Audio-Tactile Tourist Guide

Szymczak, Delphine LU ; Rassmus-Gröhn, Kirsten LU orcid ; Magnusson, Charlotte LU orcid and Hedvall, Per-Olof LU orcid (2012) MobileHCI '12 p.335-344
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.
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published
subject
keywords
Navigation, multimodal, augmented reality, non-visual, inclusive
host publication
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services
pages
10 pages
publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
conference name
MobileHCI '12
conference location
San Francisco, United States
conference dates
0001-01-02
external identifiers
  • scopus:84867727911
ISBN
978-1-4503-1105-2
DOI
10.1145/2371574.2371627
project
HaptiMap - Haptic, Audio and Visual Interfaces for Maps and Location Based Services
language
English
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yes
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869b5c7d-3257-48c3-9540-57adc9a771f4 (old id 2223505)
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2016-04-04 12:16:34
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  author       = {{Szymczak, Delphine and Rassmus-Gröhn, Kirsten and Magnusson, Charlotte and Hedvall, Per-Olof}},
  booktitle    = {{Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services}},
  isbn         = {{978-1-4503-1105-2}},
  keywords     = {{Navigation; multimodal; augmented reality; non-visual; inclusive}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{335--344}},
  publisher    = {{Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)}},
  title        = {{A Real-World Study of an Audio-Tactile Tourist Guide}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2371574.2371627}},
  doi          = {{10.1145/2371574.2371627}},
  year         = {{2012}},
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