EMI: a system to improve and promote the use of public transportation

This paper presents a project to improve the public transportation in the city of Huajuapan de Le?n, Oaxaca, M?xico. Interactive Multimedia Stations (EMI, for its Spanish acronym), the system proposed here, has the following purposes: to increase the use of public transportation through an information system comprised of routes and schedules, to improve public services with a module of users' complaints and suggestions, along with a module of incentives, which would raise the awareness of a culture of road safety education through informative capsules to the general public. Keywords Public transport, multimedia station, GUI, road signal, touchscreen, voice input output. ACM Classification Keywords H.5.2 User Interfaces (Graphical user interfaces (GUI), Input devices and strategies (e.g., mouse, touchscreen), Interaction styles, Voice I/O, Screen design (e.g., text, graphics, color)); H.5.3 Group and Organization Interfaces (Web-based interaction).

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Tonatzin Yutzin Baños, Emmanuel Aquino, Fernando David Sernas, Yazmín Regina López, Roberto Carlos Mendoza
• Keywords: CHI 2007, Human Computer Interaction, Keywords Public Transport, Public Transportation, Voice Input Output