The Design of a Multimedia Map-Store/Surrogate Travel Information System
Abstract
This report describes the effort to design the software and hardware capabilities of a videodisc mapping and surrogate travel system and to select the various sites to be incorporated into this system. Experts from DARPA's Cybernetics Technology Division and from Interactive Television Corporation (ITC) worked with decision analysts from Decisions and Designs, Inc. (DDI) to extend and elaborate the electronic surrogate travel concept previously developed and demonstrated by DARPA. The general problem was to develop a simple yet innovative conceptual design for a map-store/surrogate travel information system. Such a system must be capable of storing, indexing, and retrieving a wide range of visual and linguistic data, such as maps; aerial, attache, and underwater photography; sequences of shots for surrogate travel; plans and blueprints of key installations; instructional manuals; movies; critical auditory information; panoramas; piloting charts of coasts and harbors; and specialized chart maps indicating the distribution of population, industry, wealth, and vegetation, among others. Design of the map-store/surrogate travel system and selection of the sites was accomplished though a sequence of three one-day working sessions. The first two sessions were devoted to developing a full range of feasible software and hardware options for the system; developing a set of criteria to determine the sources and kinds of data to be included in the system; and enhancing the man-machine interaction and demonstrability of the system.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1981
- Accession Number
- ADA099402
Entities
People
- Dennis. M. Buede
- John F. Patterson
- Robert N. Kraft