Map-based Mobile Services: Design, Interaction and Usability

Description

The worldwide popularisation of mobile communication technologies and the incre- ing awareness of usability issues since 1990’s have been urging map designers to s- cialise and extend cartographic semiotics, visualisation styles and map use techniques for mobile contexts and small display devices. As a follow-up to the first book “M- based Mobile Services – Theories, Methods and Implementations” published in 2005, this new one is devoted to design strategies, user interactions and usability issues. It addresses methods and techniques for topics that range from design and rendering, context modelling, personalisation, multimodal interaction to usability test. Instead of striving for a seamless coverage of all essential theoretical and technical issues with an equal depth and extent, we attempt to pinpoint a number of research highlights and representative development activities at universities, research institutions and so- ware industry. The operational prototypes and platforms reported in the book are on the one hand outcome and feasibility proof of various approaches. On the other hand, they serve as a new starting point for the refinement of user interfaces and iterative usability tests. The book is intended not only for cartographers, surveying engineers and g- information scientists engaged in the development of location-based services, but also for software engineers and cognitive scientists working with interface design and - ability assessment. In addition, we try to provide a number of real-life case studies for students, academics and practitioners from GIS, computer graphics and other relevant disciplines. Front Matter....Pages I-XIV The State of the Art of Map-Based Mobile Services....Pages 1-12 Decluttering of Icons Based on Aggregation in Mobile Maps....Pages 13-32 User-Centered Design of Landmark Visualizations....Pages 33-56 An Incremental Strategy for Fast Transmission of Multi-Resolution Data in a Mobile System....Pages 57-79 Evaluating the Effectiveness of Non-Realistic 3D Maps for Navigation with Mobile Devices....Pages 80-104 Context-Aware Applications Enhanced with Commonsense Spatial Reasoning....Pages 105-124 Personalising Map Feature Content for Mobile Map Users....Pages 125-145 A Survey of Multimodal Interfaces for Mobile Mapping Applications....Pages 146-167 User Interaction in Mobile Navigation Applications....Pages 168-197 Designing Interactions for Navigation in 3D Mobile Maps....Pages 198-227 PDA-Assisted Indoor-Navigation with Imprecise Positioning: Results of a Desktop Usability Study....Pages 228-247 Accuracy and Performance Assessment of a Window-Based Heuristic Algorithm for Real-Time Routing in Map-Based Mobile Applications....Pages 248-266 How Mobile Maps Cooperate with Existing Navigational Infrastructure....Pages 267-292 Geographical Data in Mobile Applications Uses beyond Map Making....Pages 293-309 Mobile Location-Based Gaming....Pages 310-334 Mobile Maps and More – Extending Location-Based Services with Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis....Pages 335-352