Investigating the cognitive efficiency of interpretive animated diagram in thematic atlas: A quantitative test and evaluation

  • Feng Zhu
  • , Lvye Feng
  • , Xi Tang*
  • , Pengfei Xu
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Taking a compound statistical diagram, 'Annual frequency and monthly mean frequency of tropical cyclones affecting China in 3-4 rain-days' from 'Climatological Atlas of Typical Cyclones Affecting China', as an example, we compare the differences in user cognitive efficiency and memory effectiveness between its animated and static versions. After an adaptive re-design of the original static diagram, we implemented a questionnaire on 24 college students all with a geographical background, which are chosen randomly as subjects to do quantitative experiments, statistical analysis and evaluation. The results show that the perceptive difference between animated and static forms is insignificant for the testees with involuntary attention; however, the perceptive efficiency of animated chart improves significantly for the users with voluntary attention. All above proves that the animated thematic diagrams are applicable because of their optimization on the visual communication and comprehension in thematic atlases reading scenarios.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 23rd International Conference on Geoinformatics 2015, Geoinformatics 2015
EditorsShixiong Hu, Xinyue Ye
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)9781467376631
DOIs
StatePublished - 11 Jan 2016
Event23rd International Conference on Geoinformatics, Geoinformatics 2015 - Wuhan, China
Duration: 19 Jun 201521 Jun 2015

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Geoinformatics
Volume2016-January
ISSN (Print)2161-024X
ISSN (Electronic)2161-0258

Conference

Conference23rd International Conference on Geoinformatics, Geoinformatics 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CityWuhan
Period19/06/1521/06/15

Keywords

  • animation
  • atlas
  • cognitive efficiency
  • thematic diagram
  • visual evaluation

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