Mobile phones seem to present the perfect user interface for interacting with smart
environments, eg smart-home systems, as they are nowadays ubiquitous and equipped with …

Flying drones have the potential to act as navigation guides for pedestrians, providing more
direct guidance than the use of handheld devices. Rather than equipping a drone with a …

BACKGROUND Portable electronic devices, such as Smartphones, personal digital
assistants (PDAs) and handheld location services devices are capable of performing a …

In the age of mobile communications and social media, users are connected to interact with
other people, and often obliged to be socially active as technology drives to connect us. In …

Thanks to rapid advances in technologies like GPS and Wi-Fi positioning, smartphone users
are able to determine their location almost everywhere they go. This is not true, however, of …

Within the existing body of geographical work on touch, the haptic and the surficial, as well
as within the emerging field of haptic media studies, cartography has not yet been …

A months-long hike of the Appalachian Trail often involve long-term preparation and life-
altering decisions. Would-be hikers leverage institutional knowledge from literature and …

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to collecting images of maps at plurality of client
devices, orienting the images with respect to the Earth, and providing the oriented maps to …

Researchers and practitioners in human-computer interaction are increasingly taking
geographic approaches to their work. Whether designing novel location-based systems …

Landmark-based navigation systems have proven benefits relative to traditional turn-by-turn
systems that use street names and distances. However, one obstacle to the implementation …