Car navigation systems are discussed in this study in terms of knowledge discovery, data mining and data quality. Since data, information and knowledge are inseparable levels of human cognition, integration of these methods aids to understand the real-world patterns for car navigation systems and add value. The car navigation system is multi-purpose, multi-scale, multi-temporal and varying user...

Today car-navigation systems are increasingly penetrating the automotive market. However, the need for location-based information systems is no longer limited to cars. Mobile outdoor navigation systems for pedestrians and electronic tourist guides are already available on PDAs. In addition, new indoor positioning technologies extend the area of application for location-based systems. Unfortunat...

None of the previous studies on aging have tested the influence of action with respect to the degree of interaction with the environment (active or passive navigation) and the source of itinerary choice (self or externally imposed), on episodic memory (EM) encoding. The aim of this pilot study was to explore the influence of these factors on feature binding (the association between what, where,...

Research in the project RENA (REsource-Adapative NAvigation) together with DFKI GmbH, BMW Research and Technology AG, and Eyeled GmbH has been concerned with the conceptual and methodological foundations and the design of a resource-adaptive platform for seamless outdoor and indoor navigation that can serve as a basis for product development by the companies in the RENA consortium. Future in-ca...

Currently, car navigation systems stand out with services such as telematics and ITS (Intelligent Transport System). Moreover, the demand for these services is rapidly increasing. Current widely used navigation systems are generally based on 2D or 3D graphics and provides route and guidance information services. However these navigation systems, are associated with compression and a loss of inf...

A Segway is often used to transport a user across mid range distances in urban environments. It has more degrees of freedom than car/bike and is faster than pedestrian. However a navigation system designed for it has not been researched. The existing navigation systems are adapted for car drivers or pedestrians. Using such systems on the Segway can increase the driver’s cognitive workload and g...

This paper presents three non-linear observers on three examples of engineering interest: a chemical reactor, a non-holonomic car, and an inertial navigation system. For each example, the design is based on physical symmetries. This motivates the theoretical development of invariant observers, i.e, symmetry-preserving observers. We consider an observer to consist in a copy of the system equatio...

Speech interaction with in-car systems is becoming more commonplace as systems improve. New cars are often equipped with speech recognition systems to dial phone numbers and or control the in-car environment, and with speech output to provide verbal directions from navigation systems. The paper explores the possibilities of richer speech interaction between driver and car with automatic recogni...