Evaluation of Positioning Accuracy for the Pedestrian Navigation System

Sumio USUI
Junichiro TSUJI
Koji WAKIMOTO
Satoshi TANAKA
Junshiro KANDA
Fumiaki SATO
Tadanori MIZUNO

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E88-B    No.7    pp.2848-2855
Publication Date: 2005/07/01
Online ISSN: 
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e88-b.7.2848
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Mobile Multimedia Communications)
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Keyword: 
pedestrian navigation system,  GPS,  GIS,  mobile phone,  positioning,  location based services,  

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Summary: 
Today, pedestrian navigation systems for mobile phones use 2-dimensional maps as a navigation media in general. But 3-dimensional maps or scenery images are easier to understand for users than 2-dimensional maps. To use 3-dimensional maps or scenery guidance, the measuring accuracy of user position is essential to understand guidance images. In this paper, we will present a pedestrian navigation system using real scenery photographs as a navigation media, and based on experiments we will report the evaluation result of influence of positioning accuracy on the understandability of navigation. It is shown that 3 meters or less error of positioning is tolerable for pedestrian navigation systems using scenery images.