Getting Places on Time: Smart Map Orientation Guide

Abstract

This paper proposes a Smart Orientation Guide that is designed to provide freshmen a mapping of directional guide for commonly used buildings within a university compound. The application is able to calculate the distance between two locations and displays the estimated arrival time for the user. The ability to detect the location is based on the GPS functionality provided on the smartphone while time is estimated based on the distance of route as well as the mode of transportation. Smart Orientation Guide is developed based on android platform using the prototyping methodology. Functionality and user acceptance tests were carried to evaluate the performance of the proposed application and the results showed a highly favorable response. The Smart Orientation Guide application is hoped to substitute the use of paper map on campus. It will certainly help users like new students, visitors or new staff to find places on the campus ground within a short period of time.