SpaceTokens: Interactive Map Widgets for Location-centric Interactions

Daniel Miau, Steven Feiner

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April, 2018
Project page:
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~dmiau/projects/SpaceTokens/

SpaceTokens make locations first-class citizens of map interaction. (a) Four SpaceTokens (gray rectangles with rounded corners), each representing a location. SpaceTokens empower users to use locations directly to address "seeing" and "linking" problems discussed in paper. For example, users can (b) tap SpaceTokens to make corresponding locations visible; (c) drag SpaceTokens onto map, so corresponding locations snap to positions of dragged SpaceTokens; (d) hold an on-screen location (using left thumb) and tap several SpaceTokens to see their relative positions; (e) link an on-screen location to a SpaceToken using LinkTool (bubble above left thumb). LinkTools in (c–e) also serve as visible labels for locations being touched.

Download

git clone https://github.com/dmiau/SpaceTokens.git

Build and Run

This is an iOS (xcode) project. Load the project file SpaceTokens.xcodeproj, then build and run the project as any standard xcode projects.

Contact

Please contact Daniel Miau if you have questions or comments.