Vol. 48 No. 1 Jan. 2007 1, 2 1, 1 3 1 1, 2 1, 3 4 3 1, 4 1, 5 5 GPS 1 GPS Open Experiments of Sightseeing Support Systems with Shared Virtual Worlds for Mobile Phones Hiroyuki Tarumi, 1, 2 Yuko Tsurumi, 1, 1 Kayo Yokoo, 3 Shoji Nishimoto, 1 Kazuya Matsubara, 1, 2 Yusuke Hayashi, 1, 3 Yasushi Harada, 4 Fusako Kusunoki, 3 Yuki Mizukubo, 1, 4 Makoto Yoshida 1, 5 and Sangtae Kim 5 We have developed a sightseeing support system, using our shared virtual world service including human-like agents and inter-user communication for popular GPS-phones on the market. We have conducted open experiments for the service. By open experiments, we mean those with real tourists as subjects and letting them use their own phones. By open experiment, we have aimed to acquire realistic and objective evaluation from the viewpoint of sightseeing itself. The experiments were conducted at two major sightseeing destinations in Kagawa prefecture, each taking one week. As results, we have found that visitors responded differently by their age, gender, experiences, etc. We have also found that virtual media should give different information from real media. These findings will help the future design of such services. GPS inaccuracies were found but subjects evaluated them independently from other evaluation. In this paper, the method and results of the experiments are described. 1 Kagawa University 2 SpaceTag, Inc. 3 Tama Art University 4 Business Compass Co., Ltd. 5 University of Tsukuba 1 Presently with The Chugoku Bank 2 NEC 1. GPS 1) Presently with NEC System Technologies, Ltd. 3 Presently with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corporation 4 Presently with J-One Co., Ltd. 5 Presently with Mazda Motor Corporation 110
Vol. 48 No. 1 111 2005 1 2) (1) (2) (4) GPS 2005 11 3),4) 2 3 4 5 2 6 7 2. 2.1 1 (1) (2) 2.2 (4) GPS Table 1 1 2 Comparison of two experiments. 2005 11 9 15 2005 11 18 24 29 35 GPS 2 (1) (4) (1) (4) 1 4 5 2 11 1 2 2.2 (1) (2)
112 Jan. 2007 (4) GUIDE 5) PC PDA LAN 60 The Parks PDA 6) PDA 800 Miyamae CyberCommunication 2004 80 7) PDA GPS xexplorer 8) PDA GPS GPS 1 Fig. 1 Overlaid virtual model. GUIDE The Parks PDA GUIDE Miyamae xexplorer GPS 3. 1 1) 1 GPS
Vol. 48 No. 1 113 2 Brew Brew Brew Brew 1) Brew 1) Q Q Scheme 9) 10) 2 4. 4.1 3 (1) 365 Fig. 2 2 Configuration of the Browser-Based System. 3 Fig. 3 Kotohiragu s Guide Service Interface and the GPS s Error Compensation Map.
114 Jan. 2007 785 (2) 22 4 3(c) 17 3(a) (4) 3(b) (5) 1 4 1 3 3(a) (c) (6) GPS 3(c) (7) GPS 3(d) (8) 3(a) (c) (9) 4.2 2005 11 9 15 1 9 4 Fig. 4 Experiment scenes at the Kotohiragu. URL (1) (2) GPS 500 90 A4 1 30 40 1 4 4 3 29 21 8 50 25 30 GPS 4 5. 5.1
Vol. 48 No. 1 115 Fig. 5 5 Outlook of the real/virtual worlds at the Ritsurin Park. (1) 400 300 (2) 12 12 1 5 6 (b) 6(c) 3D 6(d) (4) 3D 2D 2 5 6(a) (b) 2D 3D 2D (5) 6(f) 6 Fig. 6 User interface. (6) 6(g) 2 6(h) (7) 2 3 3D
116 Jan. 2007 12 31 30 6 7 Fig. 7 Using the service at the Ritsurin Park. (8) (9) GPS 5.2 2005 11 18 25 1 9 GPS 7 35 17 18 GPS 7 60 90 2 1,000 GPS 1 5 5 6. 2 3 4 5 6.1 17 30 t p<0.01 6.2 13 2 16 2 (d) 3(b) 2 (e) 4 3.0 3.3 2.6 3.3 6.3
Vol. 48 No. 1 117 2 Table 2 Results of the Kotohiragu experiment. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i) (j) (k) 21 8 0 2 1 18 24 2 25 30 12 31 40 6 41 50 5 51 60 1 61 0 2 3 4 5 6 13 12 2 2 (4) (2) (1) 10 15 4 0 0 3.2 12 10 5 1 1 3.2 5 13 3 0 8 3.1 5 15 1 0 8 3.2 6 13 3 1 6 3.1 14 7 1 0 7 3.6 (4) (2) (1) 3 17 8 0 1 2.8 (4) (2) (2) 11 14 2 1 1 3.3 (4) (2) (1) 1 10 14 2 2 2.4 (1) (2) 9 19 1 0 2.3 (1) (2) (4) 8 10 7 3 1 2.8 6.4 GPS GPS GPS 2 (i) 4 (j) GPS GPS 6(e) 3D GPS 4 (j)
118 Jan. 2007 3 Table 3 Free comments from subjects at the Kotohiragu. GPS GPS GPS 0.31 GPS 2 (i) 0.31 7 6.5 2 (f) 2 (k) 2 (l) 1 5 5
Vol. 48 No. 1 119 4 Table 4 Results of the Ritsurin Park experiment. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i) (j) GPS (k) (l) 17 18 1 0 2 8 20 8 30 6 40 5 50 5 60 0 (5) (4) (2) (1) 18 7 9 1 0 0 4.2 (5) (4) (2) (1) 1 6 22 4 0 0 3.1 (5) (4) (2) (1) 13 5 10 6 2 0 3.6 (4) (2) (5) (1) 10 7 10 6 2 0 3.5 (5) (4) (2) (1) 0 2 23 9 1 0 2.7 (5) (4) (2) (1) 11 6 4 8 6 0 3.3 (5) (4) (2) (1) 6 7 10 5 7 0 3.0 (5) (4) (2) (1) 18 6 7 1 2 1 4.1 (5) (4) (2) (1) 5 6 14 6 4 0 3.1 (5) (4) (2) (1) 4 7 12 2 10 0 2.8 (5) (4) (2) (1) 22 5 3 1 4 0 4.1 (5) (4) (2) (1) 6 7 14 1 5 2 3.2 6.6 8
120 Jan. 2007 5 Table 5 Free comments from subjects at the Ritsurin Park. (1) [ ] (5) [ ] (1) [ ] [ ] (5) [ ] (5) [ ] (5) [ ] (5) [ ] (5) (5) (5) [ ] (5) (5) (5) [ ] (5) [ ] (5) [ ] [ ] (1) [ ] (5) [ ] (5) ) (l) 5 1 2 4 [ ] Table 6 6 Responses by generation (Kotohiragu experiment). 31 30 (4) (2) (1) (a) 1 8 3 0 0 2.8 9 7 1 0 0 3.5 (b) 2 5 4 1 0 2.7 10 5 1 0 1 3.6 (i) (2) (1) 0 12 0 0 2.0 9 7 1 0 2.5 8 (a) (c) (d) (h) (f) 6.7 GPS
Vol. 48 No. 1 121 Table 7 7 GPS Examples of cross table between location error evaluation and others. ) (i) (a) 0.31 (a) 4 3 2 1 4 0 0 1 0 (i) 3 3 6 1 0 2 6 7 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 (j) (c) 0.31 (c) 5 4 3 2 1 5 2 0 2 0 0 4 1 1 2 2 1 (j) 3 2 2 5 2 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 6 2 1 1 0 Table 8 8 Responses by gender (Ritsurin Park experiment). (a) (c) (d) (f) (h) (5) (4) (2) (1) 6 3 7 1 0 0 3.8 12 4 2 0 0 0 4.6 (4) (2) (1) (5) 4 3 4 4 2 0 3.2 9 2 6 1 0 0 4.1 (4) (2) (1) (5) 2 3 5 5 2 0 2.9 8 4 5 1 0 0 4.1 (5) (4) (2) (1) 3 4 3 2 5 0 2.9 8 2 1 6 1 0 3.6 (5) (4) (2) (1) 6 4 4 1 2 0 3.7 12 2 3 0 0 1 4.5 6.8 2 GUIDE 5) 4 60 1 59 21 cm 15 cm PC 850 g xexplorer 9)
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