Presentation given at ENTER 2005, 12th International Conference on Information Technology and Travel & Tourism. Innsbruck, Austria, January 2005
ABSTRACT: Despite the increasing availability of various forms of digital maps and guides, paper still prevails as the main information medium used by tourists during city visits. The authors describe how recent technologies for digitally augmented paper maps can be used to develop interactive paper maps that provide value-added services for tourists through digital overlays. An initial investigation into the use of these maps to support visitors to the Edinburgh festivals is also presented.
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Overlaying Paper Maps with Digital Information Services for Tourists
1. Overlaying Paper Maps
with Digital Information
Services for Tourists
Moira C. Norrie and Beat Signer
{norrie, signer}@inf.ethz.ch
Institute for Information Systems
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2. Outline
• Motivation
• Tourists and Maps
• Augmented Paper, Paper++
• EdFest Prototype
• User Trials
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3. Motivation
• Tourists at the
Edinburgh Festivals
• Digitally augmented
paper brochures
• Digital pen, voice and
GPS as input device
• Paper and voice as
output device
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4. Tourists and Maps
• Previsit
– activity planning
– layout and social zones of city
• Visit
– locator, proximity, navigation and event tasks
• Postvisit
– share experience with family and friends
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5. Augmented Paper, Paper++
Transformation of positions to shapes
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7. Zurich City Guide
city layer
context
art and culture layer
- location (GPS)
- time
entertainment layer - ...
P(x,y) P(x,y)
(x,y) request
user
preferences
active areas layers
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9. EdFest Event List
% link note other events
other events rating enter rating
find location
information about event
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12. User Trials ...
• Map locator functionality
• Event rating and reminder
• Pointing mode of pen
• Printed event lists
• Voice interaction
• Pen and earpiece using
Bluetooth
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13. EdFest Architecture
Headset
LAN
PAN WiFi LAN/WAN Active Content Context Engine
Paper Plug-in Web Elements
GPS (NMEA) Application DB
Link DB
EdFest Mobile Client OMSwe
Nokia Digital Paper++ Voice HTML Client iServer EdFestDB
Pen SU-1B Client Engine Browser Controller (OMS Java) (OMSwe)
x,y coordinates
docID, page, (x,y)
augment with context
docID, page, (x,y) + context
URL + context
deliver information in
VoiceXML, HTML, ...
VoiceXML VoiceXML, HTML, ... the appropriate format
ML
HT
user interaction
user interaction HTTP request
HTTP request
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14. Future Work
• Improve design of augmented documents
• Extend EdFest architecture
• Investigate alternative output channels
• Further user studies in Zurich as well
as at the Festivals in Edinburgh
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