Grounding geovisualization interface design

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Grounding geovisualization interface design: a study of interactive map use

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Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems archive
Proceedings of the 27th international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems table of contents

Boston, MA, USA

SESSION: Spotlight on work in progress session 1 table of contents

Pages: 3757-3762

Year of Publication: 2009

ISBN:978-1-60558-247-4

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Pamela Karr Wisniewski	UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA
Okan Pala	UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA
Heather Richter Lipford	UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA
David C. Wilson	UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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Building the most effective tools to support user-centered geographic visualization faces a significant challenge: not enough is known about how people interact with maps. Map use research has often focused on higher order use goals or cognitive interpretations of static map representations. In order to address the problem of understanding foundational user-map interaction behavior, we are studying user interactions in complex geovisualizations, with an initial focus on analysis tasks. This paper describes an exploratory user study to examine general interaction issues with complex map visualizations. Our results highlight the need for map tools to improve interactivity and support basic analysis tasks to aid users in decision making.

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