Does animation help users build mental maps of spatial information?
Bederson, B.B.
Boltman, A.
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD;
This paper appears in: Information Visualization, 1999. (Info Vis '99) Proceedings. 1999 IEEE Symposium on
Publication Date: 1999
On page(s): 28-35
Meeting Date: 10/24/1999 - 10/29/1999
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
ISBN: 0-7695-0431-0
References Cited: 25
INSPEC Accession Number: 6423200
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/INFVIS.1999.801854
Current Version Published: 2002-08-06
Abstract
We examine how animating a viewpoint change in a spatial
information system affects a user's ability to build a mental map of the
information in the space. We found that animation improves users'
ability to reconstruct the information space, with no penalty on task
performance time. We believe that this study provides strong evidence
for adding animated transitions in many applications with fixed spatial
data where the user navigates around the data space
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