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SpaceTokens: Interactive Map Widgets for Location-centric Interactions
Daniel Miau, Steven Feiner

CHI '18: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Session: Navigation and Trip Planning

Abstract
Map users often need to interact repetitively with multiple important locations. For example, a traveler may frequently check her hotel or a train station on a map, use them to localize an unknown location, or investigate routes involving them. Ironically, these location-centric tasks cannot be performed using locations directly; users must instead pan and zoom the map or use a menu to access locations. We propose SpaceTokens, interactive widgets that act as clones of locations, and which users can create and place on map edges like virtual whiteboard magnets. SpaceTokens make location a first-class citizen of map interaction. They empower users to rapidly perform location-centric tasks directly using locations: users can select combinations of on-screen locations and SpaceTokens to control the map window, or connect them to create routes. Participants in a study overwhelmingly preferred a SpaceTokens prototype over Google Maps on identical smartphones for the majority of tasks.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173822
WEB: https://chi2018.acm.org/