TY - GEN
T1 - Towards Designing Better Maps for Indoor Navigation
T2 - Experiences from a Case Study
AU - Puikkonen, Arto
AU - Sarjanoja, Ari-Heikki
AU - Haveri, Merja
AU - Huhtala, Jussi
AU - Häkkilä, Jonna
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Recent development in indoor navigation systems and related studies imply that these applications will become common in the future. A variety of solutions utilizing different mediums is being developed. Lately, a range of mobile devices have started to support outdoor pedestrian navigation, and these devices presumably keep guiding the users also when moving indoors. However, the design patterns from the outdoor world do not necessarily work indoors. In order to understand the distinctive UI requirements of indoor navigation, we conducted a user study involving 23 people using a mobile phone-based, location-sensitive service. In this paper, we reveal our findings that the visualizations and UI designs resembling conventional outdoor maps or floor layouts are not optimal for indoor navigation, and present recommendations for the future design of indoor navigation systems.
AB - Recent development in indoor navigation systems and related studies imply that these applications will become common in the future. A variety of solutions utilizing different mediums is being developed. Lately, a range of mobile devices have started to support outdoor pedestrian navigation, and these devices presumably keep guiding the users also when moving indoors. However, the design patterns from the outdoor world do not necessarily work indoors. In order to understand the distinctive UI requirements of indoor navigation, we conducted a user study involving 23 people using a mobile phone-based, location-sensitive service. In this paper, we reveal our findings that the visualizations and UI designs resembling conventional outdoor maps or floor layouts are not optimal for indoor navigation, and present recommendations for the future design of indoor navigation systems.
KW - mobile devices
KW - user studies
KW - user interface design
KW - indoor navigation
U2 - 10.1145/1658550.1658566
DO - 10.1145/1658550.1658566
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781605588469
T3 - MUM '09
BT - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
PB - ACM
CY - New York, NY, USA
ER -