On the language of Interactions

XV.1 January + February 2008
Page: 15
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FEATURERealizing the vision of mobile spatial interaction


Authors:
Peter Froehlich, Lynne Baillie, Rainer Simon

Mobile computers are increasingly used as a link between the physical and the digital worlds. This innovation demands a more sophisticated multidisciplinary approach to the modeling of spatial interaction than has yet been developed. Our aim in this article is to open up the "black box" of mobile spatial interaction (MSI) and discuss some issues and possible approaches that could be taken. Groundbreaking concepts that proposed how to combine virtual information with the user's direct surroundings arose as early as the 1990s. Two early examples include Egenhofer's Smart Compasses, which point and direct people to places of interest, and…




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