TY - GEN
T1 - Analysis of pedestrian navigation using cellular phones
AU - Nakajima, Yuu
AU - Oishi, Takatoshi
AU - Ishida, Toru
AU - Morikawa, Daisuke
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Abstract. Navigation services for pedestrians are spreading in recent years. Our approach to provide personal navigation is to build a multiagent system that assigns one guiding agent to each human. This paper attempts to demonstrate a design implication of the guiding agent. In the navigation experiment where a pedestrian using a map on a GPScapable cellular phone was guided by a distant navigator, we observed the communication between them by conversation analysis. The result suggests that information required by a pedestrian were the current location, the current direction and a proper route toward a destination. The communications between a pedestrian and a navigator were based on a navigation map or a movement history. When a pedestrian did not understand the map adequately, navigation sometimes failed due to the lack of communication basis.
AB - Abstract. Navigation services for pedestrians are spreading in recent years. Our approach to provide personal navigation is to build a multiagent system that assigns one guiding agent to each human. This paper attempts to demonstrate a design implication of the guiding agent. In the navigation experiment where a pedestrian using a map on a GPScapable cellular phone was guided by a distant navigator, we observed the communication between them by conversation analysis. The result suggests that information required by a pedestrian were the current location, the current direction and a proper route toward a destination. The communications between a pedestrian and a navigator were based on a navigation map or a movement history. When a pedestrian did not understand the map adequately, navigation sometimes failed due to the lack of communication basis.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-01639-4_25
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-01639-4_25
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:67650314590
SN - 3642016383
SN - 9783642016387
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 288
EP - 297
BT - Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems - 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2007, Revised Papers
T2 - 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2007
Y2 - 21 November 2007 through 23 November 2007
ER -