How Does Animation Work? Eye-Movement Analysis of Dynamic Geovisualization Displays

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How does animation work?Eye-movement analyses of dynamic geovisualization displays.As real-time three-dimensional landscape fly-throughs and interactive mapanimations of various spatial diffusion processes become ubiquitous withdissemination through the Internet, the key question that remains is howeffective the potential increase of information density in these highlyinteractive visual forms really is for learning, knowledge construction,and knowledge dissemination and education.The main goal of this proposed project is to empirically evaluate theeffectiveness of interactive and dynamic geographic visualization displaysfor knowledge discovery and knowledge construction. Based on a researchframework from cognitive science, and utilizing the eye-movement datacollection approach, a series of controlled animation experiments areproposed. These empirical studies adhere to experimental design standardsin cognitive science, but are additionally grounded on a dynamic designframework borrowed from cartography, computer graphics and cinematography,to investigate how dynamic visual variables, and various levels ofinteractivity affect people's knowledge construction processes fromdynamic displays as compared to static displays.The outcome of this investigation will be a increased understanding of howpeople use dynamic displays to explore dynamic geographic phenomena, andhow people make inferences from dynamic visualizations for knowledgeconstruction in a geographical context. A dynamic design framework will bedeveloped informed by the outcomes from the eye-movement studies. Thisframework will include design guidelines for academics and practitionersalike, both of whom employ dynamic graphic displays to educate, to doresearch, and/or to communicate research results on dynamic spatialphenomena.