Information Availability : The Influence of the User Interface
on Spatial Awareness in Virtual Geovisualizations

a 2017

Information Availability : The Influence of the User Interface on Spatial Awareness in Virtual Geovisualizations

JUŘÍK, Vojtěch, Lukáš HERMAN, Pavel UGWITZ, Zdeněk STACHOŇ, Čeněk ŠAŠINKA et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Information Availability : The Influence of the User Interface on Spatial Awareness in Virtual Geovisualizations

Name in Czech

Informační dostupnost : Vliv UI na povědomí o prostoru při virtuální geovizualizaci

Authors

JUŘÍK, Vojtěch (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Lukáš HERMAN (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Pavel UGWITZ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Zdeněk STACHOŇ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Čeněk ŠAŠINKA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

28th International Cartographic Conference, 2.-7. 7. 2017, Washington DC, 2017

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Konferenční abstrakt

Field of Study

50101 Psychology

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

ICC 2017

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/17:00097152

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords (in Czech)

UI; virtuální geografická prostředí; kognice; informační ekvivalence; interakce

Keywords in English

UI; virtual geographical environment; cognition; information equivalency; interakce

Abstract

V originále

Technologies providing three-dimensional visualization of the geographical data are widely discussed. Human perception and understanding of the information presented in virtual environments are conditioned by the way of information depiction and also by the specific options of interaction with the user interface (UI). The way how user interpret the depicted situation is crucial in terms of geographical theories (Hirmas et al., 2014; Coltekin et al., 2016) as well as in many applied areas such as crisis management (Bandrova et al., 2012) or aviation and vehicular traffic. Regarding used technologies, the 3D UIs are not equivalent in the number of provided interaction options. The specific interface setting of outputs and inputs (i.e. technology used) may hugely influence the process of interaction with such an environment. We explore the impact of specific UI setting of virtual geographical environment (VGEs) on the user’s perceptual, sensory-motor and cognitive processes (movement pattern/memory recollection). The aim of the study is to compare the behavioral activity of users interacting with the informationally equivalent virtual environments via different UI settings. We expect UI differences would affect user’s interaction patterns (sensory-motor level) as well as memory recollection (cognitive level) when working with virtual geovisualization.

Links

MUNI/M/0846/2015, interní kód MU

Name: Vliv metod kartografické vizualizace na úspěšnost řešení praktických a výukových prostorových úloh

Investor: Masaryk University, Influence of cartographic visualization on solving practical and instructional space tasks, INTERDISCIPLINARY - Interdisciplinary research projects

Citovat

JUŘÍK, Vojtěch, Lukáš HERMAN, Pavel UGWITZ, Zdeněk STACHOŇ and Čeněk ŠAŠINKA. Information Availability : The Influence of the User Interface on Spatial Awareness in Virtual Geovisualizations. In 28th International Cartographic Conference, 2.-7. 7. 2017, Washington DC. 2017.

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JUŘÍK, Vojtěch, Lukáš HERMAN, Pavel UGWITZ, Zdeněk STACHOŇ and Čeněk ŠAŠINKA. Information Availability : The Influence of the User Interface on Spatial Awareness in Virtual Geovisualizations. In \textit{28th International Cartographic Conference, 2.-7. 7. 2017, Washington DC}. 2017.

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