A study on indoor vs outdoor navigational behaviors

Abstract

This study is focused on indoor vs outdoor navigational behaviors based on the data collected by the sensors that are commonly available in smartphones such as, accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, along with GPS. Generally, the guide signature of a user signifies interesting characteristics of users’ activity. User navigational behavior depends on the surrounding environment. In case of emergency or any phycological discomfort, behavioral changes could be observed. Surveillance is another application where this kind of behavior study could be useful. So, in this world we have created a dataset of inertial sensors along with GPS and provided the necessary data visualization to extensively study the effect of indoor vs semi-indoor vs outdoor environment on user’s navigational behavior.