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iWalk: A tool for interacting with geo-located data through movement and gesture

  • Stony Brook University

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Abstract

In this work, we present iWalk, a multimedia exploration tool that provides an interactive virtual environment for physically exploring geo-tagged data. This tool is flexible enough for users to easily explore their own collections, or existing collections from the web. Two interaction modalities are incorporated into our tool - movement and gesture. Movement (walking around the physical space) is used to intuitively move through the digital data space of a collection. Gesture is used for direct data manipulation; the user is able to select the mapping between gestures and interactions. In addition, we also provide functionality for exploring data that is not geo-located. Here the user defines a rough mapping between the data collection space and the physical interaction space and then operates the program as usual. We have currently tested the system on three different data sets - a large collection of geo-tagged photographs from Flickr, a geo-located sound collection, and a museum collection that is not geo-located

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMM'10 - Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia 2010 International Conference
Pages1059-1062
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event18th ACM International Conference on Multimedia ACM Multimedia 2010, MM'10 - Firenze, Italy
Duration: Oct 25 2010Oct 29 2010

Publication series

NameMM'10 - Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia 2010 International Conference

Conference

Conference18th ACM International Conference on Multimedia ACM Multimedia 2010, MM'10
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityFirenze
Period10/25/1010/29/10

Keywords

  • geo-located data
  • gesture recognition
  • interaction
  • tracking

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