TY - GEN
T1 - Guidelines and best practices for open source transit trip planning interfaces
AU - Elliott, Lisa Jo
AU - Valarezo, Marvin
AU - Freeman, Cody
AU - Scott, Matthew
AU - Moore, Michael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Open source mass transit trip planning applications provide real-time transit information for a local community. The application provides local users with an inexpensive and accurate way to predict when their bus will arrive at the bus stop. Researchers and instructors have used the One Bus Away application as an opportunity to form cross-disciplinary development teams similar to the ones that students will experience in professional development environments. The study shares the lessons learned, the guidelines developed, and the best practices for designing transit trip planning interfaces during two implementations. User testing revealed that online mapping applications must support both riders who are familiar with the city (i.e., resident riders), as well as riders who are only visiting (i.e., visiting riders). In both cases, riders must rapidly understand the interface icons and metaphors during significant cognitive stress, environmental stress, and anxiety about missing their bus.
AB - Open source mass transit trip planning applications provide real-time transit information for a local community. The application provides local users with an inexpensive and accurate way to predict when their bus will arrive at the bus stop. Researchers and instructors have used the One Bus Away application as an opportunity to form cross-disciplinary development teams similar to the ones that students will experience in professional development environments. The study shares the lessons learned, the guidelines developed, and the best practices for designing transit trip planning interfaces during two implementations. User testing revealed that online mapping applications must support both riders who are familiar with the city (i.e., resident riders), as well as riders who are only visiting (i.e., visiting riders). In both cases, riders must rapidly understand the interface icons and metaphors during significant cognitive stress, environmental stress, and anxiety about missing their bus.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-41685-4_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-41685-4_15
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84992623559
SN - 9783319416847
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 163
EP - 172
BT - Advances in Ergonomics Modeling, Usability
A2 - Soares, Marcelo
A2 - Ahram, Tareq Z.
A2 - Falcao, Christianne
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - International Conference on Ergonomics Modeling, Usability and Special Populations, AHFE 2016
Y2 - 27 July 2016 through 31 July 2016
ER -