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URWalking: Indoor Navigation for Research and Daily Use
Ludwig, Bernd
, Donabauer, Gregor, Ramsauer, Dominik and al Subari, Karema
(2023)
URWalking: Indoor Navigation for Research and Daily Use.
KI - Künstliche Intelligenz 37, pp. 83-90.
Date of publication of this fulltext: 24 Jan 2023 06:56
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.53604
Abstract
In this report, we present the project URWalking conducted at the University of Regensburg. We describe its major outcomes: Firstly, an indoor navigation system for pedestrians as a web application and as an Android app with position tracking of users in indoor and outdoor environments. Our implementation showcases that a variant of the A∗-algorithm by Ullmann (tengetriebene optimierung ...
In this report, we present the project URWalking conducted at the University of Regensburg. We describe its major outcomes: Firstly, an indoor navigation system for pedestrians as a web application and as an Android app with position tracking of users in indoor and outdoor environments. Our implementation showcases that a variant of the A∗-algorithm by Ullmann (tengetriebene optimierung präferenzadaptiver fußwegrouten durch gebäudekomplexe https://epub.uni-regensburg.de/43697/, 2020) can handle the routing problem in large, levelled indoor environments efficiently. Secondly, the apps have been used in several studies for a deeper understanding of human wayfinding. We collected eye tracking and synchronized video data, think aloud protocols, and log data of users interacting with the apps. We applied state-of-the-art deep learning models for gaze tracking and automatic classification of landmarks. Our results indicate that even the most recent version of the YOLO image classifier by Redmon and Farhadi (olov3: An incremental improvement. arXiv, 2018) needs finetuning to recognize everyday objects in indoor environments. Furthermore, we provide empirical evidence that appropriate machine learning models are helpful to bridge behavioural data from users during wayfinding and conceptual models for the salience of objects and landmarks. However, simplistic models are insufficient to reasonably explain wayfinding behaviour in real time—an open issue in GeoAI. We conclude that the GeoAI community should collect more naturalistic log data of wayfinding activities in order to build efficient machine learning models capable of predicting user reactions to routing instructions and of explaining how humans integrate stimuli from the environment as essential information into routing instructions while solving wayfinding tasks. Such models form the basis for real-time wayfinding assistance.
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| Item type | Article | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title | KI - Künstliche Intelligenz | ||||
| Publisher: | Springer | ||||
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| Open Access Type: | DEAL (Springer) | ||||
| Volume: | 37 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 83-90 | ||||
| Date | 20 January 2023 | ||||
| Institutions | Languages and Literatures > Institut für Information und Medien, Sprache und Kultur (I:IMSK) > Professur für Informationslinguistik (Prof. Dr. Bernd Ludwig) Informatics and Data Science > Department Human-Centered Computing > Professur für Informationslinguistik (Prof. Dr. Bernd Ludwig) | ||||
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| Keywords | Wayfinding · Pedestrian navigation system · Eye tracking · Human–computer-interaction | ||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 000 Computer science, information & general works > 004 Computer science | ||||
| Status | Published | ||||
| Refereed | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg | Yes | ||||
| URN of the UB Regensburg | urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-536044 | ||||
| Item ID | 53604 |
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