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The Ambient Tag Cloud: A New Concept for Topic-Driven Mobile Urban Exploration

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Ambient Intelligence (AmI 2009)

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Today’s mobile phones are increasingly used as mediators between the real world and georeferenced digital information. However, common 2D maps as the most often applied visualization method are bearing inherent limitations when presenting a vast amount of data on a small screen. Therefore, in this paper, we propose ‘ambient tag clouds’ as an abstract alternative visualization approach for spatial information. Ambient tag clouds are designed as an extension of their Web counterparts exploiting the context-awareness of mobile devices. In our prototype implementation this novel concept has been combined with a gesture-based interaction method and thus enables mobile users to scan their current surroundings and make summarizing snapshots of adjacent areas.

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  1. Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.), Donau-City-Strasse 1, 1220, Vienna, Austria

    Matthias Baldauf, Peter Fröhlich & Peter Reichl

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  1. Matthias Baldauf
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  1. ICT&S Center, University of Salzburg, Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse 18, 5020, Salzburg, Austria

    Manfred Tscheligi

  2. User Experiences Department, Philips Research Europe, High Tech Campus 34 - WB - 5.27, 5656, Eindhoven, AE, The Netherlands

    Boris de Ruyter

  3. Industrial Design, Technische Universiteit, HG 2.54 Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, P.O. Box 513, 5600, Eindhoven, MB, The Netherlands

    Panos Markopoulus

  4. Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung IGD, Fraunhoferstrasse 5, 64283, Darmstadt, Germany

    Reiner Wichert

  5. ICT&S Center, University of Salzburg, A-5020, Salzburg, Austria

    Thomas Mirlacher , Alexander Meschterjakov  & Wolfgang Reitberger ,  & 

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Baldauf, M., Fröhlich, P., Reichl, P. (2009). The Ambient Tag Cloud: A New Concept for Topic-Driven Mobile Urban Exploration. In: Tscheligi, M., et al. Ambient Intelligence. AmI 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5859. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05408-2_5

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