Abstract

The user interface is of critical importance in applications that provide mapping services. It defines the visualisation and interaction modes for carrying out a variety of mapping tasks, and ease of use is essential to successful user adoption. This is even more evident in a mobile context, where device limitations can hinder usability. In particular, interaction modes such as a pen/stylus are limited and can be quite difficult to use while mobile. Moreover, the majority of GIS interfaces are inherently complex and require significant user training, which can be a serious problem for novice users such as tourists. In this chapter, we review issues in the development of multimodal interfaces for mobile GIS, allowing for two or more modes of input, as an attempt to address interaction complexity in the context of mobile mapping applications. In particular, we review both the benefits and challenges of integrating multimodality into a GIS interface. We describe our multimodal mobile GIS CoMPASS which helps to address the problem by permitting users to interact with spatial data using a combination of speech and gesture input, effectively providing more intuitive and efficient interaction for mobile mapping applications.

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