research-article

Systematic measurement of human map-reading ability with street-view based navigation systems

Authors:

Kaori Kobayashi,

Ryong Lee,

Kazutoshi SumiyaAuthors Info & Claims

ICUIMC '10: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Uniquitous Information Management and Communication

Article No.: 41, Pages 1 - 8

https://doi.org/10.1145/2108616.2108666

Published: 14 January 2010 Publication History

Get Access

Abstract

Recently, the various navigation systems spread in many aspects of our daily life. It becomes necessary for the user to choose the one which is suitable for oneself from among these systems. However, it is difficult that users understand all these systems, because ability which understands map and guidance disagree by each user. Besides, there will be the user who cannot understand it even if a system more easily informed guidance for a user. We think that a uniform guidance is a problem for some people, because the ability to understand a map is different by a user. Therefore, it is necessary for us to investigate ability to understand guidance, that is, human map-reading ability. Moreover, we consider that it is important that a system analyzes the ability of user and shows weak points of user. In this paper, we developed a system to simulate whether we seem to do way-finding in real space, and first of all we performed outdoor experiments about pedestrian way-finding for measuring by the system. Next, we proposed three major indicators from pedestrian behaviors, and finally measured human map-reading ability in our system. Consequently, we think that will open up a new vista of the future for personal guidance services by our approach.

References

[1]

Colin Ellard. Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall. Doubleday (July 7, 2009), ISBN-10: 038552806X

Google Scholar

[2]

Colin Ellard. Why We Get Lost. (Jul. 08, 2009), TIME.com http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1909192,00.html

Google Scholar

[3]

Kensaku Fujii and Kazuhiro Sugiyama. Route Guide Map Generation System for Mobile Communication. Transactions of Information Processing Society of Japan, Vol.41, No.9, pp.2394--2403, 2000

Google Scholar

[4]

Kensaku Fujii and Kazuhiro Sugiyama. A Method of Generating a Spot-Guidance for Human Navigation. The transactions of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers. D-II, pp.2026--2034, 1999

Google Scholar

[5]

Google Maps API for Route Search: http://code.google.com/intl/ja/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html#GRoute

Google Scholar

[6]

Ryoko Hiramoto and Kazutoshi Sumiya. Web Information Retrieval Based on User Operation on Digital Maps. In Proc. of the 14^th International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems(ACM-GIS'06), Nov.2006

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[7]

Rika Kotera, Daisuke Kitayama, and Kazutoshi Sumiya. Geographical Information Retrieval based on User's Operation on both Digital Maps and Directory Services. In Proc. of the 17^th International Conference in Geoinformatics (GEOINFORMATICS 2009), Aug. 2009

Crossref

Google Scholar

[8]

Kazutoshi Sumiya, Takuma Segawa, Kazuya Sugihara, and Kenji Narushima. Web-in-Car: A Web Search Method Not Requiring Keyword Input for Car Navigation Systems. In Proc. of the 16^th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems(ACM GIS 2008), Nov. 2008

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[9]

Noriko Shingaki. Why do People get Lost?: Features of the Congnitive Process during a Second Visit. Cognitive studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science society, 5(4), pp.108--121, 1998

Google Scholar

[10]

Kazuhiko Yokosawa, Erika Wada and Hidemichi Mitsumatsu, The Coding and Transformation of Cognitive Maps in a Virtual Environment, The transactions of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers. A, J87-A(1), pp.13--19, 2004

Google Scholar

[11]

Yoshiaki Takeuchi. Sense of Direction and its Relationship with Geographical Orientation, Personality trails and Mental Ability. Japanese Journal of educational psychology, 40, pp 47--53, 1992

Google Scholar

[12]

Yoshiaki Takeuchi. Factors of navigation skills: I. Reexamination of SDQ-S. Aichi University of Education. Vol. 51, pp.69--77, 2002

Google Scholar

Cited By

View all

Matsuo JKitayama DSumiya K(2012)Extracting degrees of emphasis of geographical objects for searching of mapsThe 6th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems, and The 13th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligence Systems10.1109/SCIS-ISIS.2012.6505209(1708-1712)Online publication date: Nov-2012
https://doi.org/10.1109/SCIS-ISIS.2012.6505209
Matsuo JKitayama DLee RSumiya KLee SHanzo LChung MLee SCho K(2011)Modified map search engineProceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication10.1145/1968613.1968719(1-7)Online publication date: 21-Feb-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1968613.1968719
Kobayashi KLee RSumiya K(2010)Pros and Cons of Utilizing Mobile Navigation Systems in Pedestrian Way FindingProceedings of the 2010 IEEE 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops10.1109/WAINA.2010.89(395-400)Online publication date: 20-Apr-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/WAINA.2010.89

Index Terms

Systematic measurement of human map-reading ability with street-view based navigation systems
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Visualization
    1. Visualization application domains
      1. Geographic visualization
2. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Spatial-temporal systems

Recommendations

Pros and Cons of Utilizing Mobile Navigation Systems in Pedestrian Way Finding
WAINA '10: Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops

Due to the rapid advance of mobile devices and on-line global map services, way-finding in outdoor environments is becoming much easier and comfortable. However, some people are still complaining to navigation systems for their poor guidance. In the ...
Geographical information systems for map based navigation in urban environments

In order to solve most of the existing mobile robotics applications, the robot needs some information about its spatial environment encoded in what it has been commonly called a map. The knowledge contained in such a map, whatever approach is used to ...
Geographical Recommender System Using User Interest Model Based on Map Operation and Category Selection

Digital map services and geographical information search services are widely available on the Internet. Users can retrieve appropriate geographical information from digital maps using certain map operations and category selection methods. However, it ...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

ICUIMC '10: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Uniquitous Information Management and Communication

January 2010

550 pages

ISBN:9781605588933

DOI:10.1145/2108616

Conference Chairs:
Kwan-Ho You
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
,
Sang-Won Lee
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
,
General Chairs:
Won Kim
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
,
Dongho Won
SungKyunkwan University, Korea

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

In-Cooperation

SIGMOD: ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 14 January 2010

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Research-article

Funding Sources

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology

Conference

ICUIMC '10

Sponsor:

SIGKDD

ICUIMC '10: The 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication

January 14 - 15, 2010

Suwon, Republic of Korea

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 251 of 941 submissions, 27%

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

3
Total Citations
View Citations
122
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)7
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)4

Reflects downloads up to 30 Jan 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

View all

Matsuo JKitayama DSumiya K(2012)Extracting degrees of emphasis of geographical objects for searching of mapsThe 6th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems, and The 13th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligence Systems10.1109/SCIS-ISIS.2012.6505209(1708-1712)Online publication date: Nov-2012
https://doi.org/10.1109/SCIS-ISIS.2012.6505209
Matsuo JKitayama DLee RSumiya KLee SHanzo LChung MLee SCho K(2011)Modified map search engineProceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication10.1145/1968613.1968719(1-7)Online publication date: 21-Feb-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1968613.1968719
Kobayashi KLee RSumiya K(2010)Pros and Cons of Utilizing Mobile Navigation Systems in Pedestrian Way FindingProceedings of the 2010 IEEE 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops10.1109/WAINA.2010.89(395-400)Online publication date: 20-Apr-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/WAINA.2010.89

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

PDF

eReader

View online with eReader.

eReader

Abstract

References

Cited By

Index Terms

Recommendations

Pros and Cons of Utilizing Mobile Navigation Systems in Pedestrian Way Finding

Geographical information systems for map based navigation in urban environments

Geographical Recommender System Using User Interest Model Based on Map Operation and Category Selection

Comments

Information

Published In

Sponsors

In-Cooperation

Publisher

Publication History

Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Funding Sources

Conference

Acceptance Rates

Contributors

Other Metrics

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

Other Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Login options

Full Access

View options

PDF

eReader

Share

Share this Publication link

Share on social media

Affiliations