Navitime: Supporting Pedestrian Navigation in the Real World

  • Authors:
  • Masatoshi Arikawa;Shin'ichi Konomi;Keisuke Ohnishi

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Tokyo;University of Tokyo;Navitime Japan

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Pervasive Computing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In Japan, 1.82 million citizens use a commercial mobile phone-based navigation service called Navitime, which is influencing how people get around in complex urban environments. This article reports on experiences with this large-scale service and discusses its implications for designing urban-computing services. This article is part of a special issue on Urban Computing.