Eyes-free overviews for mobile map applications

We outline two new auditory interaction techniques which build upon existing visual techniques to display off-screen points of interest (POI) in map based mobile computing applications. SonicPie uses a pie menu and compass metaphor, allowing a user to scroll around the environment, hearing offscreen POIs in a spatialised auditory environment. EdgeTouch integrates with the Wedge technique of Gustafson et al. [2], sonifying the POIs as the user comes into contact with them when moving his or her finger around a“sonification border”. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.5.2 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: Auditory (non-speech) feedback, Input devices and strategies. Keywords Off-Screen Data Presentation, Auditory Display, Digital Maps

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: MHCI
• Authors: David K. McGookin, Stephen A. Brewster
• Keywords: Auditory Display, Auditory Environment, Auditory Interaction Techniques, Human Computer Interaction, MHCI 2009