Square-glyphs. Assessing the readability of multidimensional spatial data visualized as square-glyphs
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Publikationsdatum
2023
Typ der Arbeit
Studiengang
Sammlung
Typ
01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift
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Herausgeber:in (Körperschaft)
Betreuer:in
Übergeordnetes Werk
International Journal of Cartography
Themenheft
DOI der Originalpublikation
Link
Reihe / Serie
Reihennummer
Jahrgang / Band
9
Ausgabe / Nummer
3
Seiten / Dauer
449-465
Patentnummer
Verlag / Herausgebende Institution
Taylor & Francis
Verlagsort / Veranstaltungsort
Auflage
Version
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Abtretungsempfänger:in
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Zusammenfassung
Glyphs have long been used to approach the challenge of visualising multidimensional data with geospatial reference. Depending on the glyph design, data-dense visualizations of several concurrent data dimensions can be created. The square-glyph is a compound glyph to represent up to four data dimensions, e.g. walkability indices, with reference to a gridded geographic space (Bleisch and Hollenstein 2018 [Exploring multivariate representations of indices along linear geographic features. Proceedings of the 2017 International Cartographic Conference, Washington D.C. (pp. 1–5)]). In this paper, we present a user study to evaluate the readability and interpretability of the square-glyphs. We compare user performance with square-glyph plots containing two and four simultaneously mapped data dimensions under different value compositions. Our results show that the user performance with square-glyphs does not decrease as the number of data dimensions represented increases from two to four. The study results indicate no significant differences in efficiency and effectiveness between the four-dimensional square-glyphs and the two-dimensional square-glyphs. The average values of five adjacent glyphs can be estimated with a mean error of eight percentage points. The results suggest that equal value distances between the displayed dimensions are more accurately perceived in a lower-value composition than in higher-value arrangements.
Schlagwörter
Glyph visualization, Square-glyphs, Multidimensionalspatial data, Evaluation, Userstudy
Fachgebiet (DDC)
600 - Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften
Veranstaltung
Startdatum der Ausstellung
Enddatum der Ausstellung
Startdatum der Konferenz
Enddatum der Konferenz
Datum der letzten Prüfung
ISBN
ISSN
2372-9333
2372-9341
2372-9341
Sprache
Englisch
Während FHNW Zugehörigkeit erstellt
Ja
Zukunftsfelder FHNW
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Begutachtung
Peer-Review der ganzen Publikation
Open Access-Status
Hybrid
Lizenz
Zitation
MÜLLER, Gianna, Daria HOLLENSTEIN, Arzu CÖLTEKIN und Susanne BLEISCH, 2023. Square-glyphs. Assessing the readability of multidimensional spatial data visualized as square-glyphs. International Journal of Cartography. 2023. Bd. 9, Nr. 3, S. 449–465. DOI 10.1080/23729333.2023.2235492. Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.26041/fhnw-9446