HaptiMap Haptic, Audio and Visual Interfaces for Maps and Location Based Services

Goal

In HaptiMap geographic information and location based services will be made more accessible for all users. The project is supported by the European Commision with 6.7 Mio. EUR for a duration of four years. Besides the usual visual presentation techniques of digital maps, HaptiMap addresses particularly non-visual interaction methods like touch and hearing to access information. The goal of this project is to provide the developer of geographic applications with a toolkit and guidelines, which simplifies the development of services, which are accessible independently from the users situation, e.g. if the user's senses are impaired or the user is on the move.

 

The focus of OFFIS in this project is to design new intelligent multimodal user interfaces to access spatial data and to develop best-practice examples that demonstrate the application of the toolkit and guidelines. HaptiMap is coordinated by University Lund, Sweden. Other partners are Navteq, Siemens, BMT Group, CEA, ONCE, Finnish Geodetic Institute, University of Glasgow, Queen’s University, Fundacion Robotiker, Kreis Soest, and Lunds Kommun.

Persons
Publications
Supporting Map-Based Navigation with Tactile Cues

Pielot, Martin and Henze, Niels and Boll, Susanne and ; 009 / 2009

Tacticycle: A Tactile Display for Supporting Tourists on a Bicycle Trip

Poppinga, Benjamin and Pielot, Martin and Boll, Susanne; 009 / 2009

Understanding tourists on a bicycle trip "in the wild"

Pielot, Martin and Poppinga, Benjamin and Boll, Susanne; 009 / 2009

Where is my Team? Supporting Situation Awareness with Tactile Displays

Pielot, Martin and Krull, Oliver and Boll, Susanne; 004 / 2010

Wellness 2.0 - Sharing Personal Health Experiences

Meyer, Jochen and Poppinga, Benjamin and Boll, Susanne; 004 / 2010

PocketNavigator: Vibro-tactile Waypoint Navigation for Everyday Mobile Devices

Pielot, Martin and Poppinga, Benjamin and Boll, Susanne; 008 / 2010

Experiments in the Wild: Public Evaluation of Off-Screen Visualizations in the Android Market

Henze, Niels and Poppinga, Benjamin and Boll, Susanne; Proceedings of NordiCHI; 10 / 2010

Using Audio and Haptics for Delivering Spatial Information via Mobile Devices - Workshop in conjunction with MobileHCI ’10, 2010

; Using Audio and Haptics for Delivering Spatial Information via Mobile Devices; 009 / 2010

Observing the Mobile User Experience (OMUE 10)

Poppinga, Benjamin and Magnusson, Charlotte and Heuten, Wilko and McGookin, David and Henze, Niels and Claassen, Ginger B. and Pielot, Martin and Eftring, Hakan and Peters, Jörn; Observing the Mobile User Experience; 10 / 2010

A Tactile Friend Sense for Keeping Groups Together

Pielot, Martin and Poppinga, Benjamin and Boll, Susanne and ; 005 / 2011

Experiments in App Stores – How to Ask Users for their Consent?

Pielot, Martin and Henze, Niels and Boll, Susanne and ; 005 / 2011

The mobile Oracle: a tool for early user involvement

Magnusson, Charlotte and Pielot, Martin and Anastassova, Margarita and Rassmus-Gröhn, Kirsten and Tollmar, Konrad and Roselier, Samuel; 009 / 2009

My App is an Experiment: Experience from User Studies in Mobile App Stores

Henze, Niels and Pielot, Martin and Poppinga, Benjamin and Schinke, Torben and Boll, Susanne and ; International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction; 11 / 2011

Stress Aware: An Investigation of Everyday Real-Time Stress Feedback

Poppinga, Benjamin and Timmermann, Janko and Heuten, Wilko and Boll, Susanne; 008 / 2011

A Tactile Compass for Eyes-free Pedestrian Navigation

Pielot, Martin and Poppinga, Benjamin and Schang, Jeschua and Heuten, Wilko and Boll, Susanne; 009 / 2011

6th Senses for Everyone! The Value of Multimodal Feedback in Handheld Navigation Aids

Pielot, Martin and Poppinga, Benjamin and Heuten, Wilko and Boll, Susanne; 11 / 2011

Evaluating Mobile Accessible Applications is a Challenge: Can the Virtual Observer be a Proper Solution?

Poppinga, Benjamin and Pielot, Martin and Heuten, Wilko and Boll, Susanne; 009 / 2011

PocketNavigator: Studying Tactile Navigation Systems In-Situ

Pielot Martin and Poppinga, Benjamin and Heuten, Wilko, Boll, Susanne; Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems; 005 / 2012

Towards an Objective Comparison of Scanning-Based Interaction Techniques

Poppinga, Benjamin and Pielot, Martin and Heuten, Wilko and Boll, Susanne; 008 / 2012

AmbiGlasses – Information in the Periphery of the Visual Field

Poppinga, Benjamin and Henze, Niels and Fortmann, Jutta and Heuten, Wilko and Boll, Susanne; 009 / 2012

Tacticycle: Supporting Exploratory Bicycle Trips

Pielot, Martin and Poppinga, Benjamin and Heuten, Wilko and Boll, Susanne; 009 / 2012

Sensor-based Identification of Opportune Moments to Trigger Unobtrusive Notifications

Poppinga, Benjamin; Heuten, Wilko; Boll, Susanne; IEEE Pervasive Computing; 03 / 2014

Unobtrusive Observation of Cycling Tourists in the Wild

Poppinga, Benjamin; Pielot, Martin; Heuten, Wilko; Boll, Susanne; International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (IJMHCI); 2014

Partners
Lund Universitet
www.lu.se/lund-university
Queen´s University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
University of Glasgow
www.gla.ac.uk
Fundacion Robotiker (Spanien)
www.robotiker.com
Siemens AG/SIS/C-LAB
Finnish Geodetic Institute
www.fgi.fi/index_eng.php
BMT Group Ltd
www.bmt.org
ONCE (Organizacion Nacional de Ciegos Espagnoles)
www.once.es/new/Onceinternacional
CEA Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
www.cea.fr

Duration

Start: 31.08.2008
End: 27.08.2012

Website of project

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