To navigate today we use -distance, time and density.
What about the qualitative aspects such as -the purpose of travel, intention, what are the characteristics of the destination and the journey, what do I know about the route?
In this era where Google maps is prevalent, all day to day issues regarding navigation; traffic; directions; a definite route, are taken care. But is that enough?
A folded compact map with the starting point i.e. any local point you are at, and flaps describing all its alternative routes (fast, long, full of tress, scenic beauty)
No matter the database gathering, it may never own the efficient local information that the local communities have, coming from experience and simply existing there. How might we increase community interaction while ensuring safety, reliability and accessibility that digital maps already offer while navigating within a town or a city?
This map gives alternative routes, describes the routes, and overcomes many of the shortcomings of google maps. It gives point to point experience with which, all of these points get more emphasis and local people’s opinions in turn become legitimate. All roads are numbered, making it easy to memorize the route suggested. All the points are described, with tags, for example-Aasha TeaVala, since 1980, which helps in triggering conversations along with seeking information about the route.
“It is not about the destination; it is about the journey”
Work presented at the Srishti Collective exhibition 2017 as undergraduate 1st year representation.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3369457.3369545
Presented my paper Plural Navigation: Navigation for a Wholesome Experience at the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction ( OzCHI 2019 ) at Fremantle, WA, Australia. The paper is published used ACM
The researched focused on finding and stating the overlaps and gaps, within the literature of,
further, formulating theories to design for the following steps of experience based navigation:
