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

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Outline

• Motivation

• Tourists and Maps

• Augmented Paper, Paper++

• EdFest Prototype

• User Trials

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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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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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Augmented Paper, Paper++

Transformation of positions to shapes

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Anoto Digital Pen

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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)

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EdFest Components

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EdFest Event List

information about event

enter ratingrating

other events%

find location

other events

link note

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EdFest Map

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User Trials

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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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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 requestuser interaction

URL + context

deliver information in

the appropriate format

augment with context

Active Content Context Engine

OMSweApplication DB

Web Elements

docID, page, (x,y)

Link DBPaper Plug-in

VoiceXML, HTML, ...VoiceXML, HTML, ...VoiceXML

HTTP request

user interaction

GPS (NMEA)

Headset

EdFest Mobile Client

PAN WiFi LAN/WANLAN

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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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Questions ?