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deSCribe: A personalized tour guide and navigational assistant

  • Dheeraj Kota
  • , Neha Laumas
  • , Urmila Shinde
  • , Saurabh Sonalkar
  • , Karthik Dantu
  • , Sameera Poduri
  • , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

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3 Scopus citations

Abstract

Mobile phones have become ubiquitous in daily life. They are also becoming more powerful with more computation and a variety of sensors embedded in them. We have built deSCribe, a context-aware phone-based navigational aid. The application provides turn-by-turn directions from the user's current location to a requested destination. It provides information about the surroundings by processing the images taken by the camera on the phone. It enables a novel user interface with the ability of using the phone as a remote to point at buildings to get further information about a particular floor within the building. Lastly, the application uses user feedback to control how much information is presented to the user.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMobile Computing, Applications, and Services - First International ICST Conference, MobiCASE 2009, Revised Selected Papers
Pages393-403
Number of pages11
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event1st International ICST Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services, MobiCASE 2009, Held in Conjunction with the 1st Workshop on Innovative Mobile User Interactivity, WIMUI - San Diego, CA, United States
Duration: Oct 26 2009Oct 29 2009

Publication series

NameLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
Volume35 LNICST

Conference

Conference1st International ICST Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services, MobiCASE 2009, Held in Conjunction with the 1st Workshop on Innovative Mobile User Interactivity, WIMUI
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego, CA
Period10/26/0910/29/09

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