In this paper, we present new ways to interact with a computer similar to driving a car and compare these techniques to the standard ways to control the computer like mouse and keyboard. We think that controlling the computer with both hands and feet in the same way that one controls a car offers new possibilities especially for three dimensional (3D) World Wide Web (WWW) navigation. The car me...

This paper presents a new visualization system, which integrates multiple kind of information for car drivers. The prototype of this system consists of two key applications. The first one is a car navigation system with real world texture images. In this system, buildings are texture mapped by actual images, which are retrieved by our automatic mapmaking system. The second is a hybrid visualiza...

Audio has become an important function in a variety of applications. For example, a typical car today has a music and entertainment system (CD player, traditional and/or satellite radio, MP3 player, DVD player), a navigation system, BlueTooth connectivity with the smartphone, and typical alert-related sounds that chime when, for instance, the headlights are left on or the trunk door is ajar. In...

Sound is a part of more application areas than ever before. Consider today’s typical car—there’s the music and entertainment system (CD player, traditional and/or satellite radio, MP3 player, DVD player), the navigation system, BlueTooth connectivity with the smartphone, and typical alert-related sounds that chime when, for instance, the headlights are left on or the trunk door is ajar. If it’s...

Pedestrian navigation services guide people to reach their destinations as the vehicle navigation services do. However, the moving way of people differs from that of vehicles, and hence the assumptions for car-navigation services are not suitable for pedestrian navigation. People may walk through the place without GPS signals due to the shelter in the sky. In some space, the accuracy of GPS may...

1. Introduction Mitsubishi Electric is striving to improve speech recognition capabilities for the car navigation system. One of the key problems encountered is when the user speaks out-of-vocabulary words which cannot be recognized. To solve this problem, the speech recognition system was equipped with a smart POI (point of interest) search function (1) , which automatically generates variatio...

We present a new approach for linking heterogeneous data of the same objective nature, such as 2D maps, 3D virtual environments and videos with GPS data. We have identified three key challenges (georeferencing, content creation for geospatial videos and bidirectional linking) that should be addressed to link among geographic hypermedia. We propose an easily implementable data model that serves ...