Usability Evaluation of Web Mapping Sites

Nivala, Annu‐Maaria; Brewster, Stephen; Sarjakoski, Tiina

doi:10.1179/174327708x305120

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“…Related to the questions about user literacy are problems identified by Nivala, Brewster and Sarjakoski (2008) and Newmann et al (2010). Nivala et al (2008) discovered in their usability study that while users of web maps had problems understanding, and using, zooming and panning functions-they also had problems understanding search operations, and the results produced by their search.…”

Section: The Platform Usermentioning

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Planning with Citizens: Implementation of an e-Planning Platform and Analysis of Research Needs

Steiniger

Poorazizi

Hunter

2016

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Citizen participation should be an essential part of an urban planning process if the needs of the local population are to be addressed. Citizen participation should also improve acceptance of private construction projects by residents that live in or near such development. A complementary form of citizen participation to public planning meetings is to permit citizen engagement via Web 2.0 technologies, which also has the potential to get citizens involved that are usually difficult to reach. We aim to build a social, i.e. participatory, planning platform that allows technology savvy citizens to inform themselves of future and ongoing development projects and to also discuss them online. In this work we discuss the functional needs and context-of-use constraints of such an e-planning platform. A conceptual model of the technical architecture is outlined and a prototype implementation is presented. This prototype is built on free and open source software components, including a social network, to enable platform adoption in other locations. Finally, we discuss the research needs that are to be addressed if the development of participatory e-planning platforms should advance.

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Section: The Platform Usermentioning

confidence: 99%

Planning with Citizens: Implementation of an e-Planning Platform and Analysis of Research Needs

Steiniger

Poorazizi

Hunter

2016

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“…OpenStreetMap provides features by a topological data model (OSM Wiki, 2016). Node elements describe points in the space by their latitude, longitude and identifier.…”

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“…Buildings are elements that have a tag with the key "building" (OSM Wiki, 2016). The value of the tag may describe the type of accommodation (e.g., "apartments"), of commercial use (e.g., "warehouse"), or of civic use (e.g., "church").…”

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Open Street Map Data as Source for Built-Up and Urban Areas on Global Scale

Brinkhoff¹

2016

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:Many types of applications require information about built-up areas and urban areas. Thus, there is a need for a global, vector-based, up-to-date, and free dataset of high resolution and accuracy. The OpenStreetMap (OSM) dataset fulfills those demands in principle. However, its focus is not land use or land cover. These observations lead to following questions: (1) Which OSM features can be used for computing built-up areas on global scale? (2) How can we derive built-up and urban areas on global scale in sufficient accuracy and performance by using standard software and hardware? (3) Is the quality of the result sufficient on global scale? In this paper, we investigate the first two questions in detail and give some insights into the third question.

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“…Upper: official version; Lower: New design by Noad (2011) Evaluation of map design has been carried by map researchers (e.g. Pickle 2003, Slocum et al 2001, Haklay and Zafiri 2008, Nivala et al 2008, Roberts et al 2010. However, one can rarely see a thorough evaluation on schematic maps.…”

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Impact of Schematic Designs on the Cognition of Underground Tube Maps

Liu

2016

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Commission II, WG II/6KEY WORDS : Schematic maps, M ap design, M ap cognition, Tube maps, M ap usability. ABS TRACT:Schematic maps have been popularly employed to represent transport networks, particularly underground tube lines (or metro lines), since its adoption by the Official London Underground in early 1930s. Such maps employ straightened lines along horizontal, vertical and diagonal directions. Recently, some researchers started to argue that the distortion in such a schematization may cause big distortion and some new designs are proposed. This project aims to make a comparative analysis of such a schematic design with a new design proposed by M ark Noad in 2011, which makes use of lines along 30º and 60º directions instead of the 45º direction. Tasks have been designed for evaluating the effect of schematic designs on route planning by travellers. The participant was asked to choose the route s/he would take among two or three possible route options and then read the name of the selected trans fer station. Eye-tracking technique has been employed to track the map recognition process. Total travel time is used as criterion for effectiveness; completion time and mental work cost are used for efficiency evaluation. It has been found that (1) the design of map style has significant impact on users' travel decision making, especially map distance and transfer station symbol designs, and (2) the design style of a schematic map will have great impact on the effectiveness and efficiency of map recognition.

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Usability Evaluation of Web Mapping Sites

Cited by 123 publications

References 16 publications

Planning with Citizens: Implementation of an e-Planning Platform and Analysis of Research Needs

Planning with Citizens: Implementation of an e-Planning Platform and Analysis of Research Needs

Open Street Map Data as Source for Built-Up and Urban Areas on Global Scale

Impact of Schematic Designs on the Cognition of Underground Tube Maps

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