Increasing the usability of pedestrian navigation interfaces by means of landmark visibility analysis

Journal of Navigation

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 523-537

  Delikostidis, Ioannis ^a   Engel, Juri ^b   Retsios, Bas ^c   Van Elzakker, Corné P J M ^c   Kraak, Menno Jan ^c   Döllner, Jürgen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Landmark visibility; Pedestrian navigation; Usability testing; User centred design

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC FRAMEWORK; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES; EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS; PEDESTRIAN NAVIGATION; PEDESTRIAN NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; USABILITY TESTING; USER CENTRED DESIGN; VISIBILITY ANALYSIS;

NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

VISIBILITY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NAVIGATION; PEDESTRIAN; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84878611679     PISSN: 03734633     EISSN: 14697785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0373463313000209     Document Type: Article

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