[gps-talkusers] Re: Using vibration for navigation

  • From: "Carol Pearson" <carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:13:50 +0100

Hey, you could sell to deaf-blind people that way, so could these be added (as an option) to our GPS?


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---- Original Message ----
From: "Michael May" <MikeMay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 6:09 AM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Using vibration for navigation

Interesting system.
Geo users will readily know that vibrations have been
used with Mobile Geo for a variety of navigation and alert
information using the Morse Code system. In the options, the user has the
choice of vibration and audio alert or either audio or vibration
individually for a particular alert like turn now or GPS receiver not
detected.
It makes a lot of sense to use vibrations to nudge the
user along their route.
Mike



At 07:38 AM 4/23/2010, you wrote:
Perhaps this idea is interesting for some of you as well.
Pocket Navigator is a free Android app, developed by the German
OFFIS research institute. OFFIS is also a consortium partner of
the European research project Haptimap. . I like the idea of
vibration for navigation respectively information. From the
pocketnavigator.org site (see or hear video too):

"The PocketNavigator is available for free in the Android
Market. It uses tactile feedback to guide you safely through an
unknown city. Thus, your precious mobile phone can safely stay inside
your pocket. The lines to follow will explain you how the tactile
feedback works, and how you can use the PocketNavigator.

Tactile Feedback

As it is uncomfortable to keep a mobile device in the
hand during a navigation task all the time, we developed
TwoPulse, a tactile information presentation method for your mobile phone. As
suggested by the name, Two Pulse uses two tactile pulses to
indicate the direction towards the next waypoint of your route. If
both pulses have the same duration, the waypoint is straight ahead.
If the first pulse is longer than the second, you have to turn left a
bit. If the second one is longer than the first pulse,
you have to turn a bit right. Two Pulse gives you continuous feedback and do not
give you specific turning instructions as a common
navigation system will do. Thus, you have the ability to navigate more freely.
Please also watch the demonstration video below."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixbMFMhN2WY&feature=player_embedded#

Source:
http://www.pocketnavigator.org/about.php

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