Comparing physical, automatic and manual map rotation for pedestrian navigation

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 767-776

  Seager, Will ^a   Fraser, Danae Stanton ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automatic rotation; Egocentric maps; Mobile computing

Indexed keywords

MOBILE COMPUTING; NAVIGATION; ROTATION; TRACKING (POSITION);

AUTOMATIC ROTATION; EGOCENTRIC MAPS;

MAPPING;

EID: 35348837958     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240624.1240742     Document Type: Conference Paper

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