“To redesign the current principles of navigation such that it is sensitive to the user’s intent and understands the subjectivity in the experience while navigating through a route to reach their desired destination.”
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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
Bangalore City is expanding, and more and more people are settling at the peripherals of the city. With people spending long travel hours, it’s time to divert focus from the destination and towards the journey travellers are taking everyday.
Mapping all possible routes from the points of interests to the Cubbon Park metro station. Shadowing travellers to their destination.
Physically mapping the hotspots, local references, points of interests, monuments, iconic food stalls, shops, etc.
Physically mapping the hotspots, local references, points of interests, monuments, iconic food stalls, shops, etc.
Asking travellers to map the route from their start location to the metro station.
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:
Ideation
Novel Concept
Recursive Categorization
Deviation calculation of the points of interests (POIs)
Tech Exploration
Augmented Reality (AR)
Participatory Sensing Systems
Mental Model
Social Media
Audio Guides
Learning Curve
High
Low
High
Unique Experience
Encourages driver and traveller decision making.
Contrary to the current social media platforms, it encourages movememt.
Allows people to hear and follow other’s experiences. Off-screen experience.
Ergonomics
Unpleasant
Pleasant
Below Expectation
Users’ journey with the platform for a travel experience that caters to the plurality in expectations, intentions, duration and other aspects of each traveller the user is travelling with..
These points of interests could be physical landmarks of the place, local spots, etc. By shifting the focus of navigation from the end point to the local spots of the city, Interactions are encouraged, user’s spacial knowledge is prioritised and focus is brought to the locality of the locations that one traverses during their journey.
These points of interest are suggested to users by other users, building collective
acknowledgement to the places in the street/city/space.
This is done through sharing images and videos as stories with geotagged locations. These stories could be invites, a popular location, live events and could also be targeting social concerns in the space.
This encourages community engagement within the users and portrays locations as place of community engagement.
These are suggested to the users by calculating the measure of deviation that they must take from the shortest path, based on the intensity of their experience, from leisure to emergency. This is calculated by barring the time and keeping the deviations within the time limit.
