Assessing end-user interaction for multi-criteria local search with heatmap and icon-based visualizations

MapInteract 2013 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on MapInteraction

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 13-19

  Kumar, Chandan ^a   Poppinga, Benjamin ^b   Haeuser, Daniel ^a   Heuten, Wilko ^b   Boll, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b OFFIS INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

End user interaction; Geographic information retrieval; Heatgrid visualization; Marker based interface; Multi criteria local search; User centered evaluation

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES;

END USERS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION OVERLOADS; INTERACTIVE INTERFACES; LOCAL SEARCH; MULTIPLE CRITERIA; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; USER-CENTERED;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84898984619     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2534931.2534937     Document Type: Conference Paper

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