Global Landscapes: Teaching Globalization through Responsive Mobile Map Design

Roth, Robert E.; Young, Stephen; Nestel, Chelsea; Sack, Carl M.; Davidson, Brian R; Janicki, Julia; Knoppke-Wetzel, Vanessa; Ma, Fei; Mead, Robert J.; Rose, Caroline; Zhang, Guiming

doi:10.1080/00330124.2017.1416297

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“…This notion is reflected by more recent design approaches, such as responsive web map design and mobile-first design, focusing on usability issues and the fundamental characteristics and challenges of the mobile use case. Mobile-first design acknowledges for technological constraints of mobile devices, and responsive design recognizes different characteristics, requirements, capabilities, and form factors of display devices to flexibly respond to them (Roth et al, 2018;Lee et al, 2022). Both design approaches offer ways to compensate for the technical constraints of the mobile use case.…”

Section: Past and Current Advances In Mobile Map Adaptivitymentioning

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Adaptivity as a key feature of mobile maps in the digital era

Reichenbacher,

Bartling

2023

Front. Commun.

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Mobile maps are an important tool for mastering modern digital life. In this paper, we outline our perspective on the challenges and opportunities associated with designing adaptive mobile maps that are useful, usable, and accessible to a wide range of users in different contexts. If we claim for adaptive mobile maps to be successful, we need to expand our understanding of map use context, including the physical and digital spaces, user behavior, and individual differences. We identify key challenges, such as the scarcity of knowledge about mobile map use behavior, the need for effective adaptation methods and strategies, user acceptance of adaptive maps, and issues related to control, privacy, trust, and transparency. We finally suggest research opportunities, such as studying mobile map usage, employing AI-based adaptation methods, leveraging the power of visual communication through maps, and ensuring user acceptance through user control and privacy.

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Section: Past and Current Advances In Mobile Map Adaptivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Adaptivity as a key feature of mobile maps in the digital era

Reichenbacher,

Bartling

2023

Front. Commun.

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“…Minimizing energy consumption aligns with broader efforts in green computing to reduce carbon emissions and their impact on climate change (Williams & Curtis, 2008). Reducing energy consumption is particularly poignant for mobile maps like Flyover Country, as a dead battery is a fatal discontinuation in the user experience, potentially leaving the user stranded without connectivity while wayfinding through an unfamiliar area or after arriving in an unfamiliar destination (Roth et al, 2018). We implemented a twolevel, light UI visual hierarchy across the map and other dialog windows to maintain contrast between the map and interface: blue indicates the primary interaction for the current screen and white represents other available interactions (additional details below).…”

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Mobile UX design: learning from the Flyover Country mobile app

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Technology has transformed maps into interactive tools for exploring and understanding the world. In this article, we present the user experience (UX) design process for Flyover Country (http://flyovercountry.io), a mobile mapping application that visualizes information about the Earth's geology and history, allowing users to save and then access the information offline while flying, driving, or hiking. Specifically, the paper presents a UX design study that tracks the conceptualization, implementation, and revision of Flyover Country, and employs scenario-based design to walk through a pair of use case scenarios that informed our UX design: science outreach to the general public and field trip guides for geoscience education. In the paper, we note UX design insights that are potentially transferable to other mobile mapping contexts, organizing insights by mobile representation design (scale, projection, symbolization, and typography) versus mobile interaction design (map entry point, bottom navigation, floating action button, and pull-up information panel).

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“…They also called for further studies investigating the impact of different types of thematic maps on users' perception, a call that is answered partly later in this article (Section 4). (Ricker and Roth, 2018;Roth, 2019;Roth, Young, et al, 2018) include less reliable data connectivity, reduced bandwidth, variable environmental conditions as a result of physical mobility, limited battery life, and multi-touch post-WIMP interaction. Visualizations on mobile devices may be designed to support wayfinding and navigation (e.g.…”

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Choriented Maps: Visualizing SDG Data on Mobile Devices

Gorte,

Degbelo

2021

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Choropleth maps and graduated symbol maps are often used to visualize quantitative geographic data. However, as the number of classes grows, distinguishing between adjacent classes increasingly becomes challenging. To mitigate this issue, this work introduces two new visualization types: choriented maps (maps that use colour and orientation as variables to encode geographic information) and choriented mobile (an optimization of choriented maps for mobile devices). The maps were evaluated in a graphical perception study featuring the comparison of SDG (Sustainable Development Goal) data for several European countries. Choriented maps and choriented mobile visualizations resulted in comparable, sometimes better effectiveness and confidence scores than choropleth and graduated symbol maps. Choriented maps and choriented mobile visualizations also performed well regarding efficiency overall and performed worse only than graduated symbol maps. These results suggest that the use of colour and orientation as visual variables in combination can improve the selectivity of map symbols and user performance during the exploration of geographic data in some scenarios.

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Global Landscapes: Teaching Globalization through Responsive Mobile Map Design

Cited by 21 publications

References 32 publications

Adaptivity as a key feature of mobile maps in the digital era

Adaptivity as a key feature of mobile maps in the digital era

Mobile UX design: learning from the Flyover Country mobile app

Choriented Maps: Visualizing SDG Data on Mobile Devices

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