An Exploratory Study to Assess Digital Map Zoom/Pan/Rotate Methods with HoloLens

Year 2018, Volume: 22 Issue: 2, 458 - 463, 15.08.2018

Murat Yılmaz , İsmail Kılınç

Abstract

Geographical map display plays an important part of a GIS (Geographical Information System). The usability of a map display is certainly depends on how easily user navigates through spatial data and selects features on it. Currently, desktop computer based GIS applications uses mouse movements, buttons and scroll for a set of functions such as zoom, pan and rotate. However currently Hololens supports only gaze, air tap gesture and voice commands as an input. Although the functionality looks simple, it is challenging to find optimal solution by using input devices for those functions even while creating in a desktop application. This study aims to assess an optimal way to enable these functions on hologram maps by investigating its validity and usability.

Keywords

Geographical Information Systems, Human Computer Interaction; HoloLens; Augmented reality

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