| Recent Publications |
May, A.J, Ross, T. & Bayer, S.H (2005) Incorporating Landmarks in Driver Navigation System Design: An Overview of Results from the REGIONAL Project, Journal of Navigation, Vol 58, p47-65.
May, A.J, Ross, T., Bayer S.H. & Tarkiainen, M.J. (2003), Pedestrian navigation aids: information requirements and design implications, Personal & Ubiquitous Computing, 7(6), pp 331-338.
Ross, T, & Burnett, G. (2001) Evaluating the human-machine interface to vehicle navigation systems as an example of ubiquitous computing, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 55(4) October 2001, pp 661-674.
Bayer, S., Ross, T. & May, A. (2004) 'The Requirements for Location-based Services: Differences Between Target User Groups' Proceedings of the Fifth Wireless World Conference, Surrey, 15-16 July.
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| Current and Recent Grants |
FITS 'Ideas in Transit' (2007-2012)
This 5-year project is one of 3 funded by the UK government initiative “Future Intelligent Transport Systems” which aims to address “the challenge of delivering better passenger and freight transport services while at the same time reducing negative environmental impacts especially the carbon footprint.” It is joint funded by EPSRC, the Department for Transport and the Technology Strategy Board. Partners are the University of the West of England, Ordnance Survey and Ito. The aim is to understand non-conventional (and particularly user-generated, bottom-up) sources of innovation which can improve the transport system in the UK. ESRI’s research interest is in how the interface between users and technologies act as a barrier or enabler in this context. The project includes budget to support spin-off projects, PhDs and scoping studies for promising innovations.
VALUED LBS (2003-2006)
This EPSRC-funded project tackled the issue of poor uptake of location based services early in the decade (after being hailed the next ‘killer app’). The research focused on identifying the key characteristics of ‘valued’ services by conducting user requirements studies across a range of mobile scenarios. In addition, the research identified the need for new data, attributes, functionality and interface paradigms to support end-users; these outputs were used by the commercial partners - Ordnance Survey and Trafficmaster – and VTT in Finland.
REGIONAL (1999-2002)
Funded by the EPSRC under the LINK programme, this project proposed new concepts for next-generation navigation systems that were more aware of the external road environment. The research culminated in guidelines for the choice, use and presentation of ‘landmarks’ as navigational cues in future systems and showed the safety, acceptability and performance benefits that this could achieve. The project consortium included major players in the navigation supply chain, namely Navteq, Alpine and Jaguar. |
