Analyzing the Design of Tactile Indoor Maps

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Abstract

Tactile maps are feasible to increase the mobility of people with blindness and to achieve spatial information of unknown environments. Exploring tactile maps could be a hard task. Research on the design of tactile maps, especially the design and meaningfulness of tactile symbols, mostly addresses outdoor environments. The design of tactile indoor maps has been studied less frequently, although they differ significantly from outdoor environments. Therefore, in this paper, 58 tactile indoor maps have been investigated in terms of the design of the headline, additional map information, legend, walls and information presentation types used. In addition, the design of common objects for indoor environments, such as doors, entrances and exits, toilets, stairs and elevators, has been examined in more detail and commonly used symbols have been extracted. These findings form the basis for further user studies to gain insights into the effective design of indoor maps.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHuman-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021 - 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsCarmelo Ardito, Rosa Lanzilotti, Alessio Malizia, Alessio Malizia, Helen Petrie, Antonio Piccinno, Giuseppe Desolda, Kori Inkpen
PublisherSpringer, Cham
Pages434-443
Number of pages10
ISBN (electronic)978-3-030-85623-6
ISBN (print)978-3-030-85622-9
Publication statusPublished - 26 Aug 2021
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

Scopus 85115076668
dblp conf/interact/EngelW21

Keywords

Keywords

  • People with blindness and visual impairments, Tactile indoor map design, Accessible building maps