Naïve cartography: How intuitions about display configuration can hurt performance

Cartographica

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 171-186

  Hegarty, Mary ^a   Smallman, Harvey S ^b   Stull, Andrew T ^a   Canham, Matt S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Pacific Science and Engineering Group   (United States)

^c Central Oregon Community College   (United States)

Author keywords

3D displays; Animation; Cognition; Detail; Intuitions; Na ve theories; Realism

Indexed keywords

CARTOGRAPHY; DIGITAL MAP; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 70350356338     PISSN: 03177173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/carto.44.3.171     Document Type: Review

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