Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

5-2009

Abstract

We introduce MobiTOP (Mobile Tagging of Objects and People), a map-based application which allows users to contribute and share geo-referenced multimedia annotations via mobile devices. An important feature of MobiTOP is that annotations are hierarchical, allowing annotations to be annotated to an arbitrary depth. MobiTOP's interface was designed using a participatory design methodology to ensure that the user interface meets the needs of potential users. In an evaluation, a group of student-teachers involved in a geographical field study were tasked to collaboratively identify rock formations using the MobiTOP system. The students who were in the field were guided by their lab counterparts on the tasks required to identify the rock formations. Results suggest the potential of the MobiTOP system for information sharing.

Keywords

Tagging, Hierarchical geo-referenced annotations, Mobile user interface, Participatory design, Information sharing

Discipline

Databases and Information Systems

Research Areas

Data Science and Engineering

Publication

Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Mobile Data Management, Taipei, Taiwan, 2009 May 18-20

Identifier

10.1109/MDM.2009.109

City or Country

Taipei, Taiwan

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/MDM.2009.109

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