Cartography and geographic information systems as semiotic systems

Prado, Alysson Bolognesi; Baranauskas, M. Cecí­lia C.; Medeiros, Claudia Maria Bauzer

doi:10.1145/355274.355298

Cited by 9 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 6 publications

(7 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Significant barriers to the growth of internet-based geographic tools surround the user's ability to manipulate and interpret geographic information along with software interface usability issues. It is reasonable to assume that non-specialist geographic information users have only a limited knowledge of geographic information (in comparison to geographic specialists) and, therefore, may find the specialist nature of geographic information applications demanding [16]. Therefore, an important attribute of online map tools is their adaptability, especially the ease with which they can be tailored to suit the dynamically changing user demands [17].…”

Section: Digital Maps: Gis and The Internetmentioning

confidence: 99%

Will we be lost without paper maps in the digital age?

Hurst¹,

Clough

2013

Journal of Information Science

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Paper has been the format of choice for disseminating geographic information for millennia; however the arrival of the internet and mobile technologies has created new modes of map consumption. This paper investigates the future role of paper mapping in a society where access to online digital mapping is freely available. The research consists of an online survey to investigate how people use and view online/digital and paper maps, together with a task-based user study to investigate the suitability of each map format for a variety of given tasks. Similar to previous research, we categorize participants into two groups (experts and non-experts/novices) based on their level of geographic skill. Results demonstrate that geographic knowledge and the context of use clearly relate to preference of map format. As geographic skill increases, there is a greater preference for paper maps; non-experts prefer online/digital maps. Also, paper is the preferred medium for planning and executing navigation on foot across all groups. Overall, results suggest that paper maps are here to stay for the foreseeable future and remain the preferred choice for some in the digital age.

show abstract

Section: Digital Maps: Gis and The Internetmentioning

confidence: 99%

Will we be lost without paper maps in the digital age?

Hurst¹,

Clough

2013

Journal of Information Science

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Help users tagging online photos (e.g. flicker) in order to make an effective computation or search activity (Hargood et al, 2010) Improve online help system in order to provide better access to it (Silveira et al, 2001) Assist in understand the construction and interpretation of maps as a communication activity (Prado et al, 2000) Help in collaborative tagging system (Cattuto et al, 2006) Improve the methodological and technological search support in social network service (SNS) (dos JSIT 15,1 Table VI also showed example benefits to each of these categories and total number of papers to each category of benefits. The percent of papers to each category of benefit are shown in Figure 13, which showed that the maximum numbers of papers were focused to achieve the goals related to interface design (43.07 percent) and then the communication goal (20 percent).…”

Section: No Of Papersmentioning

confidence: 99%

A systematic literature review of semiotics perception in user interfaces

Islam

2013

Journal of Systems and Information Technology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Purpose -The underlying objective of this literature review was to investigate what kinds of semiotics researches have been employed in user interfaces design and usability evaluation, and how were they employed. Design/methodology/approach -This research follows a systematic literature review process that consists of three key stages: planning the review, conducting the review, and reporting the review. Starting with an initial set of about 1,000 research articles, 65 were selected for this review, using an inclusion and exclusion criteria. Qualitative and quantitative data were extracted from the selected literatures following a data extraction strategy in six themes of data extraction. The extracted data were synthesized to formulate the stated research questions to obtain the review goals. Findings -This systematic review identified research strengths, gaps, and challenges. Apart from this, further research possibilities were also explored in this review. For research, the review showed clear needs for more researches to increase both the number and the quality of studies that can be focused on the research gaps identified by this systematic review related to: outcome validation; cultural issues consideration; user interfaces of mobile applications and websites; semiotics perception in usability evaluation; and further improve the value and applicability of research ideas. For practice, the review showed the significance of semeiotics in user interface design and usability evaluation to develop users' intuitive interfaces for boosting the system's usability. Originality/value -Based on a systematic literature review, the paper not only depicts the current status of semiotics research in user interface design and evaluation, but also provides a number of implications for research and practice. Thus, the review contributes to the scientific community of user interface design and evaluation, as well as suggesting the actual advances in the state of the practice in semiotics research on user interface.

show abstract

“…A research described in (Prado et al, 2000) was based on viewing and interpreting maps as comunication ac-tivities about natural facts of the real world. The main research goal was to evaluate the expressive power (and the expressive limitations) of GIS tools.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluation of User Interfaces for Geographic Information Systems: A Case Study

Maziero¹,

Slutter²,

García³

et al. 2006

Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper presents an evaluation of user interfaces of two Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools, Ar-cView and Spring. This work is related to a specific characteristic of those interfaces, which is to allow the user to view a map. User interfaces were evaluated based on the main cognitive difficulties related to the execution and evaluation bridges employing a cognitive engineering approach and, complementarily, in accordance with the semiotics engineering parameter called "system communicability". Both evaluated systems are generally considered to be quite complex, not only in terms of understanding the interaction elements present in the interface, but also the knowledge embedded in the tasks that can be accomplished by these systems. Although the study described in this work was focused on a single task it confirmed the general opinion about these kinds of applications: a novice user cannot explore them without some assistance from an expert user or by studying books and manuals. Even an expert user usually faces significant difficulties using those GIS tools.

show abstract

Cartography and geographic information systems as semiotic systems

Cited by 9 publications

References 6 publications

Will we be lost without paper maps in the digital age?

Will we be lost without paper maps in the digital age?

A systematic literature review of semiotics perception in user interfaces

Evaluation of User Interfaces for Geographic Information Systems: A Case Study

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About