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Mobile Navigation Integrated Smartphone with Physical Finger for Evacuations

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17K18957
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Social systems engineering, Safety engineering, Disaster prevention engineering, and related fields
Research InstitutionAdvanced Institute of Industrial Technology

Principal Investigator

Tobita Hiroaki  産業技術大学院大学, 産業技術研究科, 教授 (30736062)

Project Period (FY) 2017-06-30 – 2020-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
Budget Amount *help
¥5,980,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,380,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
Keywords防災・減災 / 3次元造形 / ナビゲーション / モバイルアプリケーション / ビーコン / 室内位置測位 / 3点測位 / 方向提示手法 / モバイルアプリ / 屋内・屋外誘導
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Smartphones are widely used for communication and entertainment, and have characteristic features such an even surface and a few buttons. However, the interaction with them is quite simple and limited. In contrast, we have found a way to use a physical finger attached to a smartphone. A real finger has many capabilities such as pointing and gestures. For example, we use our finger to point at something or someone, or to count a number, so we use such features for interactions to mobile navigation. The finger approach makes smartphone more intuitive and familiar for novice and elderly users who are not good at manipulating smartphone. In this research, we implement our system based on our design concepts and evaluate the system.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

携帯電話による歩行者誘導を避難誘導に適用し、有効性を検証した例はない。既存の誘導手法がデジタル画像を使った屋外での誘導を対象としているためである。提案手法では、指モデルは前後、左右及び、上下の方向提示を行えるので、デジタル画像による前後及び左右の平面的な移動に加え、上下の動作により階上・階下への指示も行える画期的な手法である。屋外の道案内は平面的に行えるが、建物内は階段を使う誘導が必要になる。提案手法では、屋内・屋外の歩行者誘導を同じユーザインタフェースで行える点に特徴を持ち、システムを実現し有効性を検証することは学術的に非常に意義が高く、地震や台風等の自然災害が多い日本においては重要となる。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2019 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (7 results)

All 2019 2018 2017

All Presentation (7 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 6 results,  Invited: 1 results)

  • [Presentation] SitusCall: Location-Based Mobile Communication for Group Calls and Human Augmentation2019

    • Author(s)
      Hiroaki Tobita
    • Organizer
      2019 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM)
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Tie-Brake: Tie-Based Wearable Device for Navigation with Brake Function2019

    • Author(s)
      Hiroaki Tobita
    • Organizer
      2019 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct)
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Intuitive-Evacuation: Intuitive Navigation in both Indoor and Outdoor Environments for Evacuation2018

    • Author(s)
      Hiroaki Tobata
    • Organizer
      IEEE ICT-DM 2018
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] PytaPosi: Indoor Location Estimation with Physics Constraint and Recursive Filtering2018

    • Author(s)
      Masaaki Ano, Hiroaki Tobata
    • Organizer
      Springer IHSED 2018
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Open-Finger: Mobile Application Platform Enhanced by Physical Finger2018

    • Author(s)
      Hiroaki Tobita, Hirotaka Saitoh
    • Organizer
      IEEE IRC
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Finger-navi: mobile navigation integrated smartphone with physical finger2017

    • Author(s)
      Hiroaki Tobata
    • Organizer
      ACM MUM
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Human Augmented Design2017

    • Author(s)
      Hiroaki Tobita
    • Organizer
      CICCAT
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited

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Published: 2017-07-21   Modified: 2021-02-19  

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