CAREER: Elements of Interactive Cartography: Design Principles for Interactive, Online, and Mobile Maps

职业：交互式制图要素：交互式、在线和移动地图的设计原则

• 批准号: 1555267
• 负责人: Robert Roth
• 金额: $ 45.43万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-01 至 2022-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1555267&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Elements; Interactive; Cartography; Design

Maps are now ubiquitous to society. They are found in cars, on phones, and across social media news feeds. Professionals in a variety of fields now use mapping technologies to address many of the Earth's most pressing problems, with the U.S. Department of Labor estimating that the American geospatial workforce exceeded 425,000 people by 2010. Recent advances in personal computing and information technologies have fundamentally transformed how maps are produced and consumed, which requires educators to rethink how mapping is taught in educational settings and professionals to retool in response to a new range of technical competencies. While much of the empirical research in in the field of cartography over the past half century has addressed representation design (the graphic encoding of geographic information), relatively few empirically derived and time-tested principles exist regarding interaction design (implementation of a digital interface for manipulating an online or mobile map). The investigator undertaking this project will undertake four research activities that address critical, overarching needs for interaction design in cartography and GIScience. The investigator will characterize current practices in interaction map design through a content analysis of online news maps. He will develop guidelines for interactive map design through a controlled experiment evaluating the utility of unique forms of interactivity for different map reading tasks. He will integrate representation and interaction design principles through a second experiment evaluating the utility of interactivity for different thematic map types (e.g., choropleth, dot density, isoline, proportional symbol), and he will identify best practices for cartographic design on mobile devices through a field study evaluating mobile map designs in various application settings. This Faculty Early-Career Development (CAREER) award will support a project that investigates the design of maps that are interactive and are delivered online or through mobile devices. This project will use mixed-method research to establish first principles for designing effective interactive, online, and mobile maps, thereby providing guidance regarding contemporary map design for the geospatial workforce. The project will respond to numerous calls for research about interaction design within cartography and geographic information science (GIScience), and it will contribute to the emerging and interdisciplinary science of interaction crossing human-computer interaction, information visualization, usability engineering, and visual analytics. The project will create unique undergraduate and graduate student learning opportunities through new coursework and design apprenticeships, and it will produce several open-access, publicly available products, including an extensible web mapping code repository, a blog with design and technical instructional material, and an electronic textbook on interactive cartography. An ultimate result of this project should be better interactive, online, and mobile maps.

地图现在在社会中无处不在。 它们存在于汽车、手机和社交媒体新闻中。 各个领域的专业人士现在都在使用地图技术来解决地球上许多最紧迫的问题，美国劳工部估计，到 2010 年，美国地理空间劳动力将超过 425,000 人。个人计算和信息技术的最新进展从根本上改变了地图的制作和使用方式，这要求教育工作者重新思考如何在教育环境中教授地图知识，并要求专业人员重新调整工具以应对一系列新的技术 能力。 虽然过去半个世纪制图学领域的大部分实证研究都涉及表示设计（地理信息的图形编码），但关于交互设计（用于操作在线或移动地图的数字界面的实现）的经验推导和经过时间检验的原则相对较少。 承担该项目的研究者将开展四项研究活动，以满足制图学和地理信息科学中交互设计的关键、总体需求。 调查员将通过在线新闻地图的内容分析来描述交互地图设计的当前实践。 他将通过对照实验来评估独特的交互形式对于不同地图阅读任务的效用，从而制定交互式地图设计指南。 他将通过第二个实验来整合表示和交互设计原则，评估不同专题地图类型（例如等值线、点密度、等值线、比例符号）的交互性效用，并且他将通过评估各种应用程序设置中的移动地图设计的实地研究来确定移动设备上制图设计的最佳实践。该教师早期职业发展（CAREER）奖将支持一个项目，该项目研究交互式地图的设计，并通过在线或移动设备提供。 该项目将使用混合方法研究来建立设计有效的交互式在线和移动地图的首要原则，从而为地理空间劳动力提供当代地图设计的指导。 该项目将响应制图学和地理信息科学（GIScience）领域对交互设计研究的众多呼吁，并将为跨人机交互、信息可视化、可用性工程和视觉分析的新兴跨学科交互科学做出贡献。 该项目将通过新的课程作业和设计学徒制创造独特的本科生和研究生学习机会，并将生产多种开放获取、公开可用的产品，包括可扩展的网络制图代码存储库、包含设计和技术教学材料的博客以及交互式制图电子教科书。 该项目的最终结果应该是更好的交互式、在线和移动地图。