An Exploratory Study to Assess Digital Map Zoom/Pan/Rotate Methods with HoloLens

Abstract

Geographical map display plays an important part of a GIS (GeographicalInformation System). The usability of a map display is certainly depends on how easilyuser navigates through spatial data and selects features on it. Currently, desktop computerbased GIS applications uses mouse movements, buttons and scroll for a set of functionssuch as zoom, pan and rotate. However currently Hololens supports only gaze, air tapgesture and voice commands as an input. Although the functionality looks simple, it ischallenging to find optimal solution by using input devices for those functions even whilecreating in a desktop application. This study aims to assess an optimal way to enable thesefunctions on hologram maps by investigating its validity and usability.