Geovisualisation: Future Interactions & Social Contexts

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Geovisualisation: Future Interactions and Social Contexts

Chris Marmo, William Cartwright and Jeremy Yuille.RMIT University

Wednesday, 14 December 11

Today...

• Geovisualisation & Human-Computer Interaction

• The role of design research

• Case study

Geovisualisation = Geovisual Analytics

Geovisual Analytics is “the exploration of location data through highly interactive interfaces”

Fabrikant & Lobben, 2009

High degrees of interaction

Studying interfaceperformance and use.

Geovisual Analytics is “the exploration of location data through highly interactive interfaces”

Interface?

Desktop Mobile ?

Geoplaced Knowledge - Chris Marmo

Ubiquitous computing

Our environments are at once physical, social and digital.

HCI’s Turn to Practice

• Less focus on precise measurement of interface and human performance

• More focus on broader social contexts

Practice

How do people relate toand learn about their

environment?

Practice AlternativeInterfaces

environment?

Practice AlternativeInterfaces

environment?

How do we communicate location-based data beyond

desk-bound screens?

Case Study: Parks Victoria

Practice: Mobile Probe

Probes are a generative design method aimed at inducing an autobiographical account of daily activities, in order to make ‘the ordinary’ visible to designers.

Gaver et al., 1999

Mobile Probe

• Six participants

• 72 total entries

• All geo-tagged, mixed-media

Reading the cloud - Chris Marmo

Studying interactions with space

Early Findings

Social Spatial

Temporal

Social Practice

• Understandings of the park were negotiated through conversations and story-telling.

• These understandings were shared.

Spatial Practice

Landscapes were a common vocabulary

“A group of us here in different teams had a bit of down time so we decided to take a walk around the Lou-ann Boardwalk. It’s amazing to see how the banks have changed. Some of the banks of the river have changed, the course of the river has changed.” – Participant 3.

Temporal Practice

• Past experience was a lens through which rangers understood current events

• Layers of information formed over time

Design Inspiration

• Using Social, Temporal & Spatial aspects of environmental understanding to design technologies.

1st Interface

• In-situ exploration of location based data.

• Spatially represent audio and photographic narratives of a place.

• Encourage rangers to form an understanding of the park through other’s perspectives.

2nd Interface

• A portable, tangible device that communicates the absence (or presence) of data about a place.

• Encourage the use of and contribution to the first system.

Conclusions

• Much work is occurring around the measurement of specific interface performance.

• Combining this with a study of broader social contexts can inform future interaction design.

Thanks!

chris.marmo@student.rmit.edu.au

Acknowledgements: Prof. William Cartwright, Mr. Jeremy Yiuille. The support of the ARC and the broader Geoplaced Knowledge project team.

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