Framy - visualizing spatial query results on mobile interfaces

  • Authors:
  • Luca Paolino;Monica Sebillo;Genoveffa Tortora;Giuliana Vitiello

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Salerno, Fisciano, SA, Italy;Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Salerno, Fisciano, SA, Italy;Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Salerno, Fisciano, SA, Italy;Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Salerno, Fisciano, SA, Italy

  • Venue:
  • W2GIS'07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Web and wireless geographical information systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The widespread use of mobile devices in basic map navigation tasks has recently attracted researchers on usability problems arising from the reduced visualization area and the limited interaction modes allowed by small keypads. In this paper we analyse the most common approaches suggested in the literature and propose a new visualization technique, named FRAMY, which is based on one of them and exploits a novel interaction metaphor for picture frames to provide hints about off-screen objects. It was conceived to cover a wider range of spatial data visualization tasks, which may simultameously involve different geographic layers.