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An experimental analysis of intelligibility and efficiency of in-vehicle route guidance system displays

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This study focuses on the user-interface of the route guidance system with an electronic map display. The ultimate goal of the study is to aid in designing electronic map displays that can deliver information to the user most efficiently and expeditiously with minimum confusion. To evaluate the efficiency and understandability of a map display, laboratory experiments were designed and conducted in this study. In the experiments the subjects were presented with electronic map displays of different attributes and performed a set of tasks. Their understanding of the information contents was measured based on the outcomes of the tasks, and subjective ratings of the ease of using the maps were obtained. Using the experimental data obtained, a structural equations model system is developed to explain the understandability of a map display in terms of the subject’s attributes and the characteristics of the map display. The experimental procedure and the modeling results are presented in this paper.

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  1. Department of Urban Management, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, C1, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto, 615-8540, Japan

    Satoshi Fujii & Ryuichi Kitamura

  2. ITS Laboratories, Sumitomo Electronic Industries, Ltd, 1-1-3 Shimaya, Konohana, Osaka, 554, Japan

    Masanobu Nagao & Yoichi Doi

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  1. Satoshi Fujii
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Correspondence to Satoshi Fujii.

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Originally appeared in C. T. Hendrickson and S. G. Ritchie (eds.), Applications of Advanced Technologies in Transportation Engineering: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference, American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, Virginia, pp. 106-113, 1998. Reprinted with permission from ASCE. This material may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the American Society of Civil Engineers. This material may be found at http://cedb.asce.org/cgi/WWWdisplay.cgi?9801309.

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Fujii, S., Kitamura, R., Nagao, M. et al. An experimental analysis of intelligibility and efficiency of in-vehicle route guidance system displays. Transportation 36, 779–786 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-009-9248-2

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