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A 3D revolution has taken place during the last few years, and it is shifting towards hand-held devices. In this paper, we adapted our 3D City Info for mobile users and built a demonstration of future mobile services. Our main purpose was to study navigation and way finding in a three-dimensional city model that is connected in real-time to a map of the same area and to a database, which contains information from the same area. We have built a fully working mobile laptop version of the 3D City Info with an integrated GPS receiver for our field tests. The three-dimensional model appears to illustrate motion and change of location more clearly than two-dimensional map alone. In the future the possibility to scale, zoom and drag modules and components of the interfaces seems to be useful for different contexts of use.
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Vainio, T., Kotala, O., Rakkolainen, I., Kupila, H. (2002). Towards Scalable User Interfaces in 3D City Information Systems. In: Paternò, F. (eds) Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices. Mobile HCI 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2411. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45756-9_38
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