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Personally Customizable Group Navigation System using Cellular Phones and Wireless Ad-Hoc Communication
Due to the progress of portable computing devices such
as PDAs, cellular phones and small sized PCs, many personal
navigation systems have been developed which navigate
their users to display routes to given destinations. Those
navigation systems mainly focus on the guidance for personal
use. In this paper, we have developed a group navigation
system, which provides facilities for (1) personally
customizable route navigation to a given destination, (2)
management of group movement and (3) rehearsal usage
when we make the personally customized route navigation.
In our system, using wireless ad-hoc communication a few
leaders of a group can collect and distribute the information
about its members' current positions and give each member
a suitable suggestion when the user is losing his/her way.
The personalized route navigation scenario (program) running
on portable devices can be obtained automatically only
by clicking intersections sequentially on a given map and
giving pictures and comments. A rehearsal mode is also
prepared when we make the personalized route navigation