User-Centered Design of Landmark Visualizations

摘要: Landmark-based navigation is the most natural concept for humans to navigate themselves through their environment. It therefore desirable incorporate this into car and personal systems. However, today’s systems are limited driving assistance provide guidance information in terms of instructions distances, based on current position underlying digital map. Research field spatial cognition has shown that use landmarks very important navigating unfamiliar environments. The integration could make more usable. In chapter we present a design visualization building mobile maps. We consider four categories landmarks: well-known shops (trade chains), referenced by type, buildings with specific name or function described characteristic visual aspects. then examine how from each these can be effectively visualized comparing possible visualizations at different abstraction levels, ranging photo realistic image presentations, over drawings, sketches icons abstract symbols words. As guideline designers matrix representation space which recommended presentation styles category identified.