Investigating perceptions of a location-based annotation system

• Main Authors: QUACH, Huynh Nhu Hop, RAZIKIN, Khasfariyati, GOH, Dion Hoe-Lian, KIM, Thi Nhu Quynh, PHAM, Tan Phat, THENG, Yin-Leng, Ee-peng LIM
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: Multimedia Content; Multimedia Information Retrieval; Individual Annotation; Multimedia Annotation; Social Computing Application; Databases and Information Systems; Data Storage Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4169; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5172/viewcontent/investigating_perceptions_of_a_location.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We introduce MobiTOP, a Web-based system for organizing and retrieving hierarchical location-based annotations. Each annotation contains multimedia content (such as text, images, video) associated with a location, and users are able to annotate existing annotations to an arbitrary depth, in effect creating a hierarchy. An evaluation was conducted on a group of potential users to ascertain their perceptions of the usability of the application. The results were generally positive and the majority of the participants saw MobiTOP as a useful platform to share location-based information. We conclude with implications of our work and opportunities for future research.