Het project
'Mobiele kaarten op juiste schaal voor gebruikers' (in het programma
Bsik, Ruimte voor Geo-informatie, projectnummer RGI-233) heeft donderdag
3 september jl. tijdens het RGI Nazomerfeest de Geo Innovatie Award
gewonnen in de categorie wetenschap. Martijn Meijers (TUD) heeft d
Award in ontvangst genomen en net als bij de Oscars in zijn dankwoord de
partners genoemd. Uiteraard is het een grote eer om uit de 100 RGI
projecten te worden geselecteerd voor deze Award.
Wat een verrassing was dat er ook een Award is gegeven aan de 'stille
krachten' achter RGI en dat deze eer bij Elfriede Fendel (ook TUD)
terecht is gekomen.
The project 'Usable and well-scale mobile maps' (Bsik program Space for
Geo-information, project number RGI-233) has won the Geo Innovation
Award in the category Science during the RGI late summer party on
September 3 last. Martijn Meijers (TUD) has collected the award and has
mentioned all project partners during his word of thanks. It was a great
honour to be selected out of the 100 RGI projects for this Award.
An surprise was that there was also an Award for the 'hidden forces'
behind RGI. This award has been handed over to Elfriede Fendel (TUD).
For more information: link1 link2 film1 film2
The MobiMpas project is very honored to be selected from about 100
geo-information projects within the RGI programme to be among the three
projects nominated for the geo-innovation award in the category science!
It would be even nicer the project would actually receive the award. In
order to increase our changes further: please also ask your colleagues,
students and friends to vote for our project before 30 June 2009!
The RGI voting form ,'stemformulier' on
here
Please vote on our project ('Mobiele kaarten op de juiste schaal voor gebruikers - RGI-233') in the category science ('Wetenschap' in Dutch).
Providing a motivation is optimal, but you should provide
your email address at the bottom (is used as a check to avoid double
voting). If you want you can also vote for geo-innovation awards in the
categories Economy (that is more commercial applications; in Dutch
'Economie') and Socienty (in Dutch 'Maatschappij').
Today we see a huge increase of the use of geo-information in mobile
devices. All current solutions are based on static copies that are
stored on the mobile device. This makes dynamically adapting the map to
new information and to the changing circumstances of the user
impossible. With the availability of high bandwidth wireless connections
(such as UMTS) better, more dynamic, solutions are possible: The server
generates a proper, up-to-date map of the region of interest at the
right level of detail for display and adjusted to the needs of the user.
For a mass market (consumers of mobile maps) the human factors aspect is
very important. The currently available mobile maps solutions still have
insufficient user-interfaces. Extremely important is the issue of
context as the user gets ‘lost’ very easily on the small mobile displays
when zooming and panning. Based on a selection of use cases (navigation,
tourist support, etc.), User-Centered Design techniques will be applied
to develop small prototypes / simulations and the interaction and the
quality of the maps in these prototypes / simulations will be evaluated.
The project runs from 2006 to 2008 and is organized in the following
workpackages:
WP 1 ‘preparation’ (month 4-9, 2006)
WP 2 ‘prototype development’ (month 10, 2006 – 6, 2007)
WP 3 ‘evaluation of first prototypes’ (month 7-12, 2007)
WP 4 ‘Improved prototypes’ (month 1-6, 2008)
WP 5 ‘evaluation of improved prototypes’ (month 7-12, 2008)
The RGI project Usable (and well scaled) mobile maps has been concluded per 31 December 2008. The website is now an archive for the produced results, such as: reports, articles, test data sets, etc.
