Rendering effective route maps: improving usability through generalization
Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Presenting route instructions on mobile devices
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Pictorial and Verbal Tools for Conveying Routes
COSIT '99 Proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Geographic Information Science
Elements of Good Route Directions in Familiar and Unfamiliar Environments
COSIT '99 Proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Geographic Information Science
On map-matching vehicle tracking data
VLDB '05 Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Very large data bases
Augmenting audio messages with visual directions in mobile guides: an evaluation of three approaches
Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices & services
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
How much information do you need? schematic maps in wayfinding and self localisation
SC'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Spatial Cognition V: reasoning, action, interaction
Including landmarks in routing instructions
Journal of Location Based Services
Pictorial representations of routes: chunking route segments during comprehension
Spatial cognition III
Automatic generation of destination maps
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 papers
Towards quality metrics for OpenStreetMap
Proceedings of the 18th SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
GIScience'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Geographic information science
Towards cognitively plausible spatial representations for sketch map alignment
COSIT'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Spatial information theory
Evaluating and minimizing ambiguities in qualitative route instructions
Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
Qualitative analysis of sketched route maps: translating a sketch into linguistic descriptions
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics
Generating route instructions with varying levels of detail
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications
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Providing an adequate route description requires in-depth spatial knowledge of the route in question. In this article we demonstrate that despite having travelled a route recently and having much experience of the area in question, an individual may lack such a degree of knowledge. Previous research and experience informs us that a map is an effective tool for bridging gaps in one's spatial knowledge. In this article we propose an approach, known as an Interactive Route Description, for defining and interpreting route descriptions interactively with a map. This approach is based on the concept of annotating the map in question and allows the aforementioned gap in one's spatial knowledge to be bridged. An additional benefit of defining route descriptions in this way is that it facilitates automatic parsing and in turn offers many potential applications. One such application, illustrated in this paper, is the automatic transformation to other representations of the description such as turn-by-turn instructions.