A laboratory evaluation framework for pedestrian navigation devices

  • Authors:
  • Michael Schellenbach;Antonio Krüger;Martin Lövdén;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Affiliations:
  • Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany;Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany;Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany;Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Mobility '07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on mobile technology, applications, and systems and the 1st international symposium on Computer human interaction in mobile technology
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The design of personal mobile navigation devices needs to take into account the context of use, including different types of input in order to react to changing cognitive as well as to haptic constraints. In this work we propose a laboratory evaluation framework for pedestrian navigation devices that aims to maximize the significance of results obtained in a virtual environment for later field usage. In order to increase the degree of physical motion of test users, we have designed a Virtual Environment (VE) with a treadmill-based walking interface. In order to validate our approach we present preliminary results from a study comparing over-ground walking with treadmill walking, which shows the applicability of the treadmill VE. With this work we would like to combine methodologies coming from cognitive psychology with field-study methods often used in user-interface design.