TY - GEN
T1 - Touch2Query enabled mobile devices
T2 - 10th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, W2GIS 2011
AU - Yin, Junjun
AU - Carswell, James D.
PY - 2011/3/9
Y1 - 2011/3/9
N2 - This paper describes our mobile spatial interaction (MSI) prototype Touch2Query which presents the idea of using the touch screen on mobile devices to assist in performing ad-hoc spatial queries. This approach differs from conventional mobile LBS applications where the query shape (search space) is limited to either a bounding box or radius. Instead, we provide functionality that allows users to interactively draw any desired query shape overlaid on an area of interest directly on a mobile device with their finger by combining vector primitives such as circles, polygons, polylines, and points. With the help of location and orientation aware mobile devices, mobile maps, and real-time distance and area measurements, Touch2Query gives the users freedom to perform customised spatial queries on objects/areas of interest while realising a better contextual understanding of their spatial environment at the same time.
AB - This paper describes our mobile spatial interaction (MSI) prototype Touch2Query which presents the idea of using the touch screen on mobile devices to assist in performing ad-hoc spatial queries. This approach differs from conventional mobile LBS applications where the query shape (search space) is limited to either a bounding box or radius. Instead, we provide functionality that allows users to interactively draw any desired query shape overlaid on an area of interest directly on a mobile device with their finger by combining vector primitives such as circles, polygons, polylines, and points. With the help of location and orientation aware mobile devices, mobile maps, and real-time distance and area measurements, Touch2Query gives the users freedom to perform customised spatial queries on objects/areas of interest while realising a better contextual understanding of their spatial environment at the same time.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-19173-2_16
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-19173-2_16
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79952258345
SN - 9783642191725
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 203
EP - 218
BT - Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems - 10th International Symposium, W2GIS 2011, Proceedings
Y2 - 3 March 2011 through 4 March 2011
ER -