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Mobile Interaction with Geo-Notes: A Gesture-Driven User Interface for Browsing User-Generated Content in Mobile Web Applications

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Intelligent Interactive Assistance and Mobile Multimedia Computing (IMC 2009)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 53))

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Abstract

Mobile web studies undertaken in 2008 confirm the dominance of social networking in the mobile web – where we have huge amounts of (mostly tagged) user-generated content (UGC) that call for appropriate methods for retrieval and highly interactive user interfaces. Unfortunately, existing mobile (social) web applications are less interactive and do rarely exploit user-provided tags or the user’s context for improving mobile interaction with such data. In this paper we present an approach and a map-based mobile social web application that allows for exploring the folksonomy space and related geo-referenced resources utilizing a gesture-driven orientation-based menu. Our prototype that runs on pen-based mobile devices was evaluated in a user study and yields promising results.

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  1. Research Group Digital Media, TZI, University of Bremen, 28359, Bremen, Germany

    Hidir Aras & Denis Huber

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  1. Chair for Computer Architecture, Institute of Computer Science, University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 21, 18059, Rostock, Germany

    Djamshid Tavangarian

  2. Department of Computer Science, Rostock University, Albert-Einstein-Straße 21, 18059, Rostock, Germany

    Thomas Kirste

  3. Institute of Applied Microelectronics and Computer Engineering, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

    Dirk Timmermann

  4. Department of Computer Science, Chair of Computer Architecture, University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 21, 18059, Rostock, Germany

    Ulrike Lucke

  5. Chair of Computer Architecture, Department of Computer Science, University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 21, D-18059, Rostock, Germany

    Daniel Versick

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Aras, H., Huber, D. (2009). Mobile Interaction with Geo-Notes: A Gesture-Driven User Interface for Browsing User-Generated Content in Mobile Web Applications. In: Tavangarian, D., Kirste, T., Timmermann, D., Lucke, U., Versick, D. (eds) Intelligent Interactive Assistance and Mobile Multimedia Computing. IMC 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 53. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10263-9_3

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