Cognitive and Usability Issues in Geovisualization

Slocum, Terry A.; Blok, C.A.; Jiang, Bin; Koussoulakou, Alexandra; Montello, Daniel R.; Fuhrmann, Sven; Hedley, Nick

doi:10.1559/152304001782173998

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“…While traditional controlled experiments informed by psychology seek generalizable and reproducible insights serving as overarching guidance, the design studies informed by HCI and UE instead seek transferrable and contextual insights that may be useful in similar use and user scenarios (Sedlmair, Meyer, & Munzner, 2012). Slocum et al (2001) made a similar distinction in their ICA research agenda article, and, not surprisingly, user studies since reported in the cartographic literature exhibit a bifurcation between hypothesis-driven laboratory experiments imposing great control over the map design and use contexts versus design studies that follow a user-centered process to evaluate a single interactive application in context.…”

Section: Information Visualization and Scientific Visualizationmentioning

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“…Instead, we need to shift emphasis to purposeful sampling in which a participant population is restricted by factors that are meaningful to the study objectives, such as age, gender, demographics, culture, sensory and physical disabilities, expertise, education, or motivation (Slocum et al, 2001). While it is important to collect and report background information on these characteristics to describe the sample, not all of these factors are equally important to all user studies.…”

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“…Efforts to understand and explain cartographic interaction date to at least the 1960s (Engelbart & English, 1968;Pivar, Fredkin, & Stommel, 1963), and the topic of interactivity was a recurring theme across the prior research agenda on geographic visualization organized by the International Cartographic Association (ICA) (e.g. Cartwright et al, 2001;Fairbairn, Andrienko, Andrienko, Buziek, & Dykes, 2001;Gahegan, Wachowicz, Harrower, & Rhyne, 2001;MacEachren & Kraak, 2001;Slocum et al, 2001). However, as interactive maps become pervasive in society, we as a scholarly and professional community still have many more questions than answers:…”

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User studies in cartography: opportunities for empirical research on interactive maps and visualizations

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International Journal of Cartography

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The possibility of digital interactivity requires us to reenvision the map reader as the map user, and to address the perceptual, cognitive, cultural, and practical considerations that influence the user's experience with interactive maps and visualizations. In this article, we present an agenda for empirical research on this user and the interactive designs he or she employs. The research agenda is a result of a multi-stage discussion among international scholars facilitated by the International Cartographic Association that included an early round of position papers and two subsequent workshops to narrow into pressing themes and important research opportunities. The focus of our discussion is epistemological and reflects the wide interdisciplinary influences on user studies in cartography. The opportunities are presented as imperatives that cross basic research and user-centered design studies, and identify practical impediments to empirical research, emerging interdisciplinary recommendations to improve user studies, and key research needs specific to the study of interactive maps and visualizations.

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“…Slocum et al (2001) point out that "the focus of geovisualization on facilitating work related to illstructured problems may make it difficult to apply standard usability engineering principles" (p. 71). For example, one of the usability engineering practices is to observe potential users working with current software tools before starting design of new ones.…”

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Testing the Usability of Interactive Maps in CommonGIS

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Voss³

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Cartography and Geographic Information Science

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ABSTRACT:The paper reports on an experimental study aimed at assessing the usability of five different interactive tools for exploratory analysis of geographically referenced data implemented in CommonGIS. Usability was assessed in terms of tool learnability, memorability, and user satisfaction. The study provided valuable data concerning the usability of each individual tool; we also derived some conclusions relevant to geovisualization techniques in general. We found that users were, in principle, able to understand and adopt the new ideas of map interactivity and manipulability. However, these ideas needed to be appropriately introduced; people could hardly grasp them just from the appearance of the maps and controls. An introductory demonstration was sufficient to understand the purposes of the interactive tools, and a short training session enabled people to use them. The importance of educating users is a particular challenge for geovisualization tools that are intended to be accessed over the Internet.

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“…Previous work has focused on geovisualization (MacEachren & Kraak, 1997;MacEachren, 1994;Virrantaus, Fairbairn, & Kraak, 2009), geovisual analytics (Andrienko et al, 2007), representational techniques (Skupin & Fabrikant, 2003) and interaction paradigms (Peterson, 1997;Roth, 2013), among others too numerous to fully explore here. A key motivation for the articles presented here was to complement seminal work in a special issue of Cartography and Geographic Information Science, published in 2001, which resulted in a range of new research agendas for cartography that spanned the most urgent topics of that time, some of which persist today (MacEachren & Kraak, 2001;Cartwright et al, 2001;Fairbairn, Andrienko, Andrienko, Buziek, & Dykes, 2001;Gahegan, Wachowicz, Harrower, & Rhyne, 2001;Slocum et al, 2001).…”

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Envisioning the future of cartographic research

Griffin

Robinson

Roth

2017

International Journal of Cartography

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This article introduces a special issue of the International Journal of Cartography that envisions the future of cartographic research. Following a process of collaborative ideation among International Cartographic Association (ICA) commissions, their members and other allied scholars and professionals, five articles have been crafted to highlight challenges and opportunities for cartographic research in the decades ahead. The first article characterizes the evolution of cartographic research through analysis of the activities of the ICA. Next, we present four new research agendas on persistent problems in cartographic research, big data and geovisual analytics, designing across map use contexts and use and user issues. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Cognitive and Usability Issues in Geovisualization

Cited by 256 publications

References 152 publications

User studies in cartography: opportunities for empirical research on interactive maps and visualizations

User studies in cartography: opportunities for empirical research on interactive maps and visualizations

Testing the Usability of Interactive Maps in CommonGIS

Envisioning the future of cartographic research

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