Conventional navigational devices normally communicate with the user on the acoustic and visual levels. CabBoots describes the concept for an alternate interface for pedestrian guidance applications. The information transmission process can be perceived tactilely, is intuitively understandable, and is applied to the part of the body most directly involved in the act of walking: the foot. The applied communications metaphor is familiar to all; it's something that everyone who's ever walked along a well-trodden path is aware of. more
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Globes interact with the observer and act extreme lively despite their reduced visual appearence more
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The device communicates the core idea of the information transmission of the CabBoots without any technology more
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