Crisis Map Design Considering Map Cognition
Crisis maps play a significant role in emergency responses. Users are challenged to interpret a map rapidly in emergencies, with limited visual information-processing resources and under time pressure. Therefore, cartographic techniques are required to facilitate their map cognition. In this study,...
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| author | Ping Du Dingkai Li Tao Liu Liming Zhang Xiaoxia Yang Yikun Li |
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| description | Crisis maps play a significant role in emergency responses. Users are challenged to interpret a map rapidly in emergencies, with limited visual information-processing resources and under time pressure. Therefore, cartographic techniques are required to facilitate their map cognition. In this study, we analyzed the exogenous and endogenous disruptions that users needed to overcome when they were reading maps. The analysis results suggested that cartographers’ taking the stressors into consideration could promote the cognitive fit between cartographers and users, improving map cognition and spatial information supply–demand matching. This paper also elaborates the course of map visual information processing and related graphic variables to visual attention attributes. To improve the users’ map cognition in time-critical emergency situations, crisis map design principles and a methodology were proposed. We developed three fire emergency rescue road maps and performed two evaluations to verify the effectiveness of the principles. Our experiments showed that the principles could effectively facilitate the users’ rapid map perception and proper understanding, by reducing their cognitive load, and could improve the quality of the crisis maps to some extent. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6d2b9f3b50224861807335b7ed3cdf0e2023-11-22T18:30:04ZengMDPI AGISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information2220-99642021-10-01101069210.3390/ijgi10100692Crisis Map Design Considering Map CognitionPing Du0Dingkai Li1Tao Liu2Liming Zhang3Xiaoxia Yang4Yikun Li5Faculty of Geomatics, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, ChinaFaculty of Geomatics, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, ChinaFaculty of Geomatics, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, ChinaFaculty of Geomatics, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, ChinaCollege of Earth Science, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, ChinaFaculty of Geomatics, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, ChinaCrisis maps play a significant role in emergency responses. Users are challenged to interpret a map rapidly in emergencies, with limited visual information-processing resources and under time pressure. Therefore, cartographic techniques are required to facilitate their map cognition. In this study, we analyzed the exogenous and endogenous disruptions that users needed to overcome when they were reading maps. The analysis results suggested that cartographers’ taking the stressors into consideration could promote the cognitive fit between cartographers and users, improving map cognition and spatial information supply–demand matching. This paper also elaborates the course of map visual information processing and related graphic variables to visual attention attributes. To improve the users’ map cognition in time-critical emergency situations, crisis map design principles and a methodology were proposed. We developed three fire emergency rescue road maps and performed two evaluations to verify the effectiveness of the principles. Our experiments showed that the principles could effectively facilitate the users’ rapid map perception and proper understanding, by reducing their cognitive load, and could improve the quality of the crisis maps to some extent.https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/10/10/692crisis mapstressorsmap cognitionvisual attentiondesign principles |
| spellingShingle | Ping Du Dingkai Li Tao Liu Liming Zhang Xiaoxia Yang Yikun Li Crisis Map Design Considering Map Cognition ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information crisis map stressors map cognition visual attention design principles |
| title | Crisis Map Design Considering Map Cognition |
| title_full | Crisis Map Design Considering Map Cognition |
| title_fullStr | Crisis Map Design Considering Map Cognition |
| title_full_unstemmed | Crisis Map Design Considering Map Cognition |
| title_short | Crisis Map Design Considering Map Cognition |
| title_sort | crisis map design considering map cognition |
| topic | crisis map stressors map cognition visual attention design principles |
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