Usability Evaluation Methods for Spatial Information Visualisation - Case Study: Evaluation of Tourist Maps

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0005557904190425" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0005557904190425</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0005557904190425" target="_blank" >10.5220/0005557904190425</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Usability Evaluation Methods for Spatial Information Visualisation - Case Study: Evaluation of Tourist Maps

Original language description

Many decisions are influenced by location. Geoinformation technologies together with digital data are today very often used to support spatially-oriented decisions. Another reliable way of spatial information presentation is represented by analogue maps. This contribution describes utilization of software engineering methods in cartography to evaluate and improve quality of maps. Authors have long experience with utilization of usability evaluation of Web based geographic information systems. They propose utilization of suitable methods to evaluate usability of analogue maps. Usability of analogue tourist maps of attractive areas of the Czech Republic was evaluated by means of proposed methods. Maps published by the most famous publishers in the Czech Republics, i. e. maps published by Kartografie Praha, a. s., SHOCart, spol. s r. o., Klub českých turistů o. s. and Geodézie On Line were evaluated. Usability User Testing and Heuristic Evaluation were used as methods for usability evaluation. The main results of case studies are briefly described in the paper. Results of one case study are processed by multi-criteria decision making methods. Benefits and weaknesses of used methods derived from author experience are stated in the end.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications

ISBN

978-989-758-114-4

ISSN

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e-ISSN

neuvedeno

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

419-425

Publisher name

SciTePress - Science and Technology Publications

Place of publication

Porto

Event location

Colmar

Event date

Jul 20, 2015

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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