基于Web的连续图表生成工具go-cart.io的比较评估
Ian K Duncan1, Michael T Gastner1,2
1Yale-NUS College, Singapore, Singapore.
PloS one
|May 8, 2024
概括
创建连续区域地图的基于Web的工具正在出现,但可用性仍然是一个挑战. go-cart.io被发现比fBlog更容易使用,尽管需要改进以实现更广泛的可访问性.
科学领域:
- 数据可视化 数据可视化
- 地理信息系统 (GIS) 是指地理信息系统.
- 人与计算机的交互
背景情况:
- 区域地图图表通过比例调整地图区域的大小来视觉地表示数据.
- 连续的图形图表保留了空间相邻,这对于准确的地理表示至关重要.
- 现有的图形图表软件往往缺乏非技术用户的可访问性.
研究的目的:
- 审查现有的连续图表软件.
- 为了比较两个基于Web的工具的可用性:fBlog和go-cart.io.io.
- 识别挑战,并为基于Web的图表图表生成工具提出改进建议.
主要方法:
- 关于连续图形图表软件的文献评论.
- 用户研究评估图形图表生成和分析任务.
- 系统可用性尺度 (SUS) 用于定量可用性评估.
- 对用户挑战进行定性反收集.
主要成果:
- 参与者认为go-cart.io比fBlog.io更容易使用.
- go-cart.io提供更多的内置地图,并支持数据的文件上传.
- 这两种工具都存在可用性问题,go-cart.io的复杂界面和有限的数据导入格式是关键问题.
结论:
- 基于Web的连续图形图表工具显示出希望,但需要显著的可用性增强.
- 提供了改进go-cart.io和未来基于网络的图表软件的建议.
- 增强的可用性对于非专家用户更广泛地采用区域地图是至关重要的.
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