TY - GEN
T1 - What makes you think this is a map? suggestions for creating map-like visualisations
AU - Pang, Patrick Cheongiao
AU - Biuk-Aghai, Robert P.
AU - Yang, Muye
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 ACM.
PY - 2016/9/24
Y1 - 2016/9/24
N2 - Maps have traditionally been used for representing the surface of the earth and for displaying geographical information. Apart from this obvious purpose, the metaphor of maps has been applied to other uses as well, such as information visualisation and novel user interfaces. Various methods exist for creating geographic map-like visualisations. Yet there is little understanding on how people perceive these graphical presentations as geographic maps, and how to make these information visualisations look like geographic maps. We attempt to find preliminary answers on these issues by conducting a user study with a series of map-like visualisations. In this paper, we report on the results of this study and reveal the factors that have an impact on the human perception of visualisations that are designed to resemble geographic maps. Based on this, we propose design suggestions for the future development of map-like visualizations.
AB - Maps have traditionally been used for representing the surface of the earth and for displaying geographical information. Apart from this obvious purpose, the metaphor of maps has been applied to other uses as well, such as information visualisation and novel user interfaces. Various methods exist for creating geographic map-like visualisations. Yet there is little understanding on how people perceive these graphical presentations as geographic maps, and how to make these information visualisations look like geographic maps. We attempt to find preliminary answers on these issues by conducting a user study with a series of map-like visualisations. In this paper, we report on the results of this study and reveal the factors that have an impact on the human perception of visualisations that are designed to resemble geographic maps. Based on this, we propose design suggestions for the future development of map-like visualizations.
KW - Information visualisation
KW - Map-like visualisation
KW - Maps
KW - Qualitative experiment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85010987133&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2968220.2968239
DO - 10.1145/2968220.2968239
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85010987133
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 75
EP - 82
BT - VINCI 2016 - 9th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction
A2 - Zhang, Kang
A2 - Kerren, Andreas
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 9th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction, VINCI 2016
Y2 - 24 September 2016 through 26 September 2016
ER -