Roaming Navigation for Pedestrians (Demo Paper)

Keisuke Otaki, Ai Nakada, Tomosuke Maeda, Takayoshi Yoshimura, Hiroyuki Sakai

Abstract: Navigation has become an indispensable technology, especially when exploring unfamiliar environments. Traditional shortest route-based navigation focuses on route effectiveness, which may deprive users of the opportunity to explore new areas. To mitigate the difficulty of exploring environments and enrich our walking activities by stimulating our natural tendency to explore, we study a system utilizing alternative non-shortest diverse routes. In this paper, we explain the concepts of our roaming navigation and show how users can travel with our system to demonstrate the effect of our new navigation service for pedestrians.