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Heuten, Wilko, Henze, Niels, Boll, Susanne and Pielot, Martin (2008): Tactile wayfinder: a non-visual support system for wayfinding. In: Proceedings of the Fifth Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2008. pp. 172-181. Available online

“Digital maps and route descriptions on a PDA have become very popular for navigation, not the least with the advent of the iPhone and its Google Maps application. A visual support for wayfinding, however, is not reasonable or even possible all the time. A pedestrian must pay attention to traffic on the street, a hiker should concentrate on the narrow trail, and a blind person relies on other modalities to find her way. To overcome these limitations, we developed a non-visual support for wayfinding that guides and keeps a mobile user en route by a tactile display. We designed a belt with vibrators that indicates directions and deviations from the path in an accurate and unobtrusive way. Our first user evaluation showed that on an open field without any landmarks the participants stayed well to given test routes and that wayfinding support is possible with our Tactile Wayfinder.”

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Pielot, Martin, Henze, Niels, Heuten, Wilko and Boll, Susanne (2008): Evaluation of Continuous Direction Encoding with Tactile Belts. In: Pirhonen, Antti and Brewster, Stephen A. (eds.) HAID 2008 - Haptic and Audio Interaction Design - Third International Workshop September 15-16, 2008, Jyväskylä, Finland. pp. 1-10. Available online

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Pielot, Martin, Henze, Niels, Heuten, Wilko and Boll, Susanne (2007): Tangible User Interface for the Exploration of Auditory City Maps. In: Oakley, Ian and Brewster, Stephen A. (eds.) HAID 2007 - Haptic and Audio Interaction Design - Second International Workshop November 29-30, 2007, Seoul, South Korea. pp. 86-97. Available online

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Heuten, Wilko, Wichmann, Daniel and Boll, Susanne (2006): Interactive 3D sonification for the exploration of city maps. In: Proceedings of the Fourth Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2006. pp. 155-164. Available online

“Blind or visually impaired people usually do not leave their homes without any assistance, in order to visit unknown cities or places. One reason for this dilemma is, that it is hardly possible for them to gain a non-visual overview about the new place, its landmarks and geographic entities already at home. Sighted people can use a printed or digital map to perform this task. Existing haptic and acoustic approaches today do not provide an economic way to mediate the understanding of a map and relations between objects like distance, direction, and object size. We are providing an interactive three-dimensional sonification interface to explore city maps. A blind person can build a mental model of an area's structure by virtually exploring an auditory map at home. Geographic objects and landmarks are presented by sound areas, which are placed within a sound room. Each type of object is associated with a different sound and can therefore be identified. By investigating the auditory map, the user perceives an idea of the various objects, their directions and relative distances. First user tests show, that users are able to reproduce a sonified city map, which comes close to the original visual city map. With our approach exploring a map with non-speech sound areas provide a new user interface metaphor that offers its potential not only for blind and visually impaired persons but also to applications for sighted persons.”

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Horstmann, Mirko, Heuten, Wilko, Miene, Andrea and Boll, Susanne (2006): Automatic Annotation of Geographic Maps. In: Miesenberger, Klaus, Klaus, Joachim, Zagler, Wolfgang L. and Karshmer, Arthur I. (eds.) ICCHP 2006 - Computers Helping People with Special Needs, 10th International Conference July 11-13, 2006, Linz, Austria. pp. 69-76. Available online

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Publication period:2006-2008
Publication count:5
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Wilko Heuten's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

Susanne Boll:25
Niels Henze:11
Martin Pielot:4

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Susanne Boll:5
Martin Pielot:3
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