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“But what a pain not to know your way around!...” Today’s pedestrian navigation aid systems are widely used, but not always adapted to the person or the context. For example, “go east for 500 m” is not always or often a usable indication. The aim of this chapter is to illustrate how to use the wizard of oz technique to envisage and test more user-friendly solutions for pedestrian mobility, without investing significant resources in full system development. Study focuses on photo guidance of landmarks. Such solutions can then be integrated into adaptive navigation aid systems, combining Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods.
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This work has been realized in the SAMDI Project supported by the Region Hauts-de-France. The authors also thank PSITEC (Univ. Lille), UDAPEI, APEI de Valenciennes, APEI de Denain and the “Nous Aussi” association, the Urban Labs Technologies company, the PRIMOH and MESHS networks. Finally, they thank all the participants.
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Guedira, Y., Lepreux, S., Kolski, C. (2024). A Wizard of Oz Pilot Study for Designing an Adaptive Pedestrian Navigation System. In: Kolski, C., Mihăescu, M.C., Rebedea, T. (eds) AI Approaches for Designing and Evaluating Interactive Intelligent Systems. ROCHI 2022. Learning and Analytics in Intelligent Systems, vol 36. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53957-2_3
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