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Digital cities make a wide variety of city metaphors possible. City metaphors can be used as information resources for real city users. To use resources easily, it is essential that digital cities have simple and intuitive interfaces. We are working towards a new interface focused on supporting navigation services in a real city. This paper proposes an approach to improve the interface of digital cities. Proposed approach is realized by dynamically generating intelligible representation of route guide information using city metaphors. Our developed system can generate the pictorial and linguistic representation by selecting truly required information and re-arranging it for easy understanding. Using our system, route guides are available for very small display of a cellular phone. In experiments we verified the effectiveness of proposed interface for navigation support in a real city. Using proposed interface, we can easy browse route information in digital city even with mobile terminals.
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Fujii, K., Nagai, S., Miyazaki, Y., Sugiyama, K. (2000). Navigation Support in a Real City Using City Metaphors. In: Ishida, T., Isbister, K. (eds) Digital Cities. Digital Cities 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1765. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46422-0_27
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