Many tools, techniques and devices have been developed to support people traversing their environment. In this paper we report findings from a series of realistic outdoor experiments conducted to understand the comparative, task-specific strengths and limitations of a GPS-enabled navigation map and egocentric navigation systems. These tasks included both macro- and micro-navigation aspects. Our findings suggest that while GPS-enabled navigation maps are preferred for moving over larger distances (macro-navigation), their inability to support micro navigation resulted in a notable decrease in the ability of users to locate their desired points of interest. In contrast to this the egocentric navigation system performs well in micro-navigation but relatively weaker in macro- navigation. We conclude that a better system would allow users to switch between map-based and egocentric views in order to use a GPS system for the macro-navigation, and an egocentric system for micro-navigation.

Item Type:	Refereed Conference Paper
Keywords:	navigation, mobile HCI, egocentric, navigation map, GPS, map
Research Division:	Information and Computing Sciences
Research Group:	Library and information studies
Research Field:	Human information interaction and retrieval
Objective Division:	Information and Communication Services
Objective Group:	Information services
Objective Field:	Information services not elsewhere classified
UTAS Author:	D'Orazio, MJ (Mr Matthew D'Orazio)
UTAS Author:	Lueg, C (Professor Christopher Lueg)
ID Code:	81688
Year Published:	2012
Deposited By:	Information and Communication Technology
Deposited On:	2012-12-21
Last Modified:	2018-04-04
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