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Short Paper
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.15
Exploring the Relation Between Sense of Direction and Spatial Anxiety in Everyday Mobile Map App Use (Short Paper)

Authors: Donatella Zingaro, Tumasch Reichenbacher, Mona Bartling, and Sara Irina Fabrikant

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 315, 16th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2024)

Abstract
Many studies have examined the effect of GPS reliance on individual spatial abilities and emotional disposition. Yet, how those individual differences relate to everyday mobile map interactions in the wild is poorly understood. Hence, we empirically studied the effect of users' sense of direction and spatial anxiety using mobile map apps in their everyday lives by deploying an ecologically valid approach to recording phone-based touchscreen interaction. We operationalised touchscreen interactions as switching patterns for mobile maps and other app categories. We hypothesised that users with a better sense of direction would spend less time on mobile map apps and show increased switching patterns between mobile map apps and other apps compared to users with a worse sense of direction. Conversely, users with higher levels of spatial anxiety would spend more time on mobile map apps and show decreased switching patterns. Our results contradicted our hypotheses. We did, however, find gender-specific trends: Women with higher spatial anxiety switch more often from different categories of apps (for all apps, not specifically map apps) in a phone session. Contrary to our hypothesis, men with a better sense of direction tend to spend more time on mobile map apps. This research reveals insights into the effect of users' spatial abilities and emotional dispositions on everyday users' touchscreen interactions with mobile map apps. It provides ground for mobile map app interaction design on accounting for individual-related differences.
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Donatella Zingaro, Tumasch Reichenbacher, Mona Bartling, and Sara Irina Fabrikant. Exploring the Relation Between Sense of Direction and Spatial Anxiety in Everyday Mobile Map App Use (Short Paper). In 16th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 315, pp. 15:1-15:8, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{zingaro_et_al:LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.15,
  author =	{Zingaro, Donatella and Reichenbacher, Tumasch and Bartling, Mona and Fabrikant, Sara Irina},
  title =	{{Exploring the Relation Between Sense of Direction and Spatial Anxiety in Everyday Mobile Map App Use}},
  booktitle =	{16th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2024)},
  pages =	{15:1--15:8},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-330-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{315},
  editor =	{Adams, Benjamin and Griffin, Amy L. and Scheider, Simon and McKenzie, Grant},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.15},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-208300},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.15},
  annote =	{Keywords: mobile map apps, sense of direction, spatial anxiety, app-switching, navigation, touchscreen interactions}
}
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Short Paper
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.95
Exploring Map App Usage Behaviour Through Touchscreen Interactions (Short Paper)

Authors: Donatella Zingaro, Mona Bartling, and Tumasch Reichenbacher

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 277, 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)

Abstract
Mobile map apps are rapidly changing the way we live by providing a broad range of services such as mapping, travel support, public transport, and trip-booking. Despite their widespread use, understanding how people use these apps in their everyday lives is still a challenge. In order to design context-aware mobile map apps, it is important to understand mobile map app usage behaviour. In this study, we employed a novel approach of recording touchscreen interactions (taps) on mobile map apps and combined them with users' distances from their homes to capture everyday map app usage. We analysed data from 30 participants recorded between February 2021 and March 2022 and applied two different data-driven analysis techniques to evaluate map apps usage. Our results reveal two distinct tapping signatures: a "home behaviour", characterised by high interactions with map-related apps close to home, and a "travel behaviour", defined by lower interactions scattered over a range of distances. Our findings have important implications for future work in this field and demonstrate the potential of our new approach for understanding mobile map app usage behaviour.
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Donatella Zingaro, Mona Bartling, and Tumasch Reichenbacher. Exploring Map App Usage Behaviour Through Touchscreen Interactions (Short Paper). In 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 277, pp. 95:1-95:6, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{zingaro_et_al:LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.95,
  author =	{Zingaro, Donatella and Bartling, Mona and Reichenbacher, Tumasch},
  title =	{{Exploring Map App Usage Behaviour Through Touchscreen Interactions}},
  booktitle =	{12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)},
  pages =	{95:1--95:6},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-288-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{277},
  editor =	{Beecham, Roger and Long, Jed A. and Smith, Dianna and Zhao, Qunshan and Wise, Sarah},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.95},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-189906},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.95},
  annote =	{Keywords: mobile maps, tappigraphy, cluster analysis, archetypal analysis, user-context, map-app usage}
}
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