The Universal Mobile Interface offers a new approach to integrate existing digital city systems via a single interface. The universal mobile interface uses audio semantic annotations to integrate various media representations of digital city systems representing the same real city. It also supports mobile use without developing a specific mobile interface MEANING UNCLEAR.
The interface provides the following functions:
- a single and simple interface to support users navigating multiple digital cities,
- a simultaneous walk-though the connected digital cities,
- audio descriptions of scenes using semantic annotation of objects in the connected digital cities,
- prioritizing the semantic annotation according to the user's needs.
The demonstration system connects three heterogeneous digital cities, namely, a 3D modeled virtual space, image-based virtual space, and map-based information space (Fig. 1).
Fig. 1. The universal mobile interface window and service monitor, displaying 3 connected digital cities.
Publications:
Tomoko Koda, Satoshi Nakazawa and Toru Ishida. Talking Digital Cities: Connecting Heteroge-ne-ous Digital Cities via the Universal Mobile Interface. DIGITAL CITIES III Informa-tion Technologies for Social Capital: a Cross-cultural Perspective. LNCS, 3081, Springer-Verlag, 2004.
Contact:
Toru Ishida, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University
E-Mail ishida at i.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Tomoko Koda, JST CREST Digital City Research Center
E-Mail koda at digitalcity.jst.go.jp