TY - JOUR
T1 - How to assess visual communication of uncertainty? a systematic review of geospatial uncertainty visualisation user studies
AU - Kinkeldey, Christoph
AU - MacEachren, Alan M.
AU - Schiewe, Jochen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The British Cartographic Society 2014.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - For decades, uncertainty visualisation has attracted attention in disciplines such as cartography and geographic visualisation, scientific visualisation and information visualisation. Most of this research deals with the development of new approaches to depict uncertainty visually; only a small part is concerned with empirical evaluation of such techniques. This systematic review aims to summarize past user studies and describe their characteristics and findings, focusing on the field of geographic visualisation and cartography and thus on displays containing geospatial uncertainty. From a discussion of the main findings, we derive lessons learned and recommendations for future evaluation in the field of uncertainty visualisation. We highlight the importance of user tasks for successful solutions and recommend moving towards task-centered typologies to support systematic evaluation in the field of uncertainty visualisation.
AB - For decades, uncertainty visualisation has attracted attention in disciplines such as cartography and geographic visualisation, scientific visualisation and information visualisation. Most of this research deals with the development of new approaches to depict uncertainty visually; only a small part is concerned with empirical evaluation of such techniques. This systematic review aims to summarize past user studies and describe their characteristics and findings, focusing on the field of geographic visualisation and cartography and thus on displays containing geospatial uncertainty. From a discussion of the main findings, we derive lessons learned and recommendations for future evaluation in the field of uncertainty visualisation. We highlight the importance of user tasks for successful solutions and recommend moving towards task-centered typologies to support systematic evaluation in the field of uncertainty visualisation.
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U2 - 10.1179/1743277414Y.0000000099
DO - 10.1179/1743277414Y.0000000099
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84920102842
SN - 0008-7041
VL - 51
SP - 372
EP - 386
JO - Cartographic Journal
JF - Cartographic Journal
IS - 4
ER -