Overlaying Paper Maps with Digital Information Services for Tourists

Presentation given at ENTER 2005, 12th International Conference on Information Technology and Travel & Tourism. Innsbruck, Austria.

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.

Research paper: https://beatsigner.com/publications/norrie_ENTER2005.pdf

Transcript

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. 26.1.2005 / 12:30 ENTER 2005 Research Track 2 Outline • Motivation • Tourists and Maps • Augmented Paper, Paper++ • EdFest Prototype • User Trials
3. 26.1.2005 / 12:30 ENTER 2005 Research Track 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
4. 26.1.2005 / 12:30 ENTER 2005 Research Track 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
5. 26.1.2005 / 12:30 ENTER 2005 Research Track 5 Augmented Paper, Paper++ Transformation of positions to shapes
6. 26.1.2005 / 12:30 ENTER 2005 Research Track 6 Anoto Digital Pen
7. 26.1.2005 / 12:30 ENTER 2005 Research Track 7 Zurich City Guide (x,y) active areas layers user preferences context - location (GPS) - time - ... request P(x,y) city layer art and culture layer entertainment layer P(x,y)
8. 26.1.2005 / 12:30 ENTER 2005 Research Track 8 EdFest Components
9. 26.1.2005 / 12:30 ENTER 2005 Research Track 9 EdFest Event List information about event enter rating  rating other events % find location other events link note
10. 26.1.2005 / 12:30 ENTER 2005 Research Track 10 EdFest Map
11. 26.1.2005 / 12:30 ENTER 2005 Research Track 11 User Trials
12. 26.1.2005 / 12:30 ENTER 2005 Research Track 12 User Trials ... • Map locator functionality • Event rating and reminder • Pointing mode of pen • Printed event lists • Voice interaction • Pen and earpiece using Bluetooth
13. 26.1.2005 / 12:30 ENTER 2005 Research Track 13 EdFest Architecture Nokia Digital Pen SU-1B Client Controller iServer (OMS Java) EdFestDB (OMSwe) Paper++ Client Voice Engine x,y coordinates docID, page, (x,y) + context HTML Browser HTML HTTP request user interaction URL + context deliver information in the appropriate format augment with context Active Content Context Engine OMSwe Application DB Web Elements docID, page, (x,y) Link DB Paper Plug-in VoiceXML, HTML, ... VoiceXML, HTML, ... VoiceXML HTTP request user interaction GPS (NMEA) Headset EdFest Mobile Client PAN WiFi LAN/WAN LAN
14. 26.1.2005 / 12:30 ENTER 2005 Research Track 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