Exploring Hierarchically Organized Georeferenced Multimedia Annotations in the MobiTOP System

  • Authors:
  • Thi Nhu Quynh Kim;Khasfariyati Razikin;Dion Hoe-Lian Goh;Yin Leng Theng;Quang Minh Nguyen;Ee-Peng Lim;Aixin Sun;Chew Hung Chang;Kalyani Chatterjea

  • Affiliations:
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  • Venue:
  • ITNG '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Sixth International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We introduce MobiTOP, a map-based interface for accessing hierarchically organized georeferenced annotations. Each annotation contains multimedia content associated with a location, and users are able to annotate existing annotations, in effect creating a hierarchy. MobiTOP’s interface was designed using a participatory design methodology to ensure that the user interface meets the needs of potential users. A pilot study to compare the MobiTOP interface with a space-filling thumbnail (SFT) interface suggested that participants preferred the MobiTOP design for accessing annotations even though the SFT interface was conceptually easier to understand resources.