Tool Support for Building Graph Construction

Paul Heiniz, Karl-Heinz Krempels, Christian Samsel, Kai Schwarz, Gökay Bodur

2013

Abstract

Landmark-based navigation is one promising approach among the group of indoor navigation solutions. Using logical connections between areas in the building, users are able to follow a path via step-by-step instructions. This approach provides universally applicable navigation to complex buildings. However landmark-based indoor navigation requires a solid and reliable data structure which depicts regarded buildings. In this paper we present a tool for construction of such data structure. Using findings from prior experiments and well-established design principles and patterns, we were able to significantly improve the usability of the tool and lower the cognitive load of the user. Furthermore, the proposed improvements were integrated into landmark-based indoor navigation software to enhance the user experience and display a more familiar presentation during the navigation task.

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in Harvard Style

Heiniz P., Krempels K., Samsel C., Schwarz K. and Bodur G. (2013). Tool Support for Building Graph Construction . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications and 10th International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-74-7, pages 265-272. DOI: 10.5220/0004510402650272


in Bibtex Style

@conference{winsys13,
author={Paul Heiniz and Karl-Heinz Krempels and Christian Samsel and Kai Schwarz and Gökay Bodur},
title={Tool Support for Building Graph Construction},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications and 10th International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={265-272},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004510402650272},
isbn={978-989-8565-74-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications and 10th International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2013)
TI - Tool Support for Building Graph Construction
SN - 978-989-8565-74-7
AU - Heiniz P.
AU - Krempels K.
AU - Samsel C.
AU - Schwarz K.
AU - Bodur G.
PY - 2013
SP - 265
EP - 272
DO - 10.5220/0004510402650272