popelka - the role of hill-shading in tourist maps: an eye-tracking study
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Presentation from Third InDOG Doctoral Conference in Olomouc, Czech Republic. 13. - 16. October 2014TRANSCRIPT
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THE ROLE OF HILL-SHADING IN TOURIST MAPS:
an eye-tracking study
Stanislav POPELKA
Department of geoinformaticsPalacký University in Olomouc
Czech Republic
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EVALUATION OF 3D VISUALIZATION IN GIS WITH THE USE OF EYE-TRACKING
• 3D visualization in three areas:
• 3D visualization of terrain– Perspective maps (Popelka and Brychtová, 2013)
– Hill-shading in maps
• 3D visualization of cities– Photorealistic visualization (Popelka and Dědková, 2013)
– Non-photorealistic visualization (Popelka and Doležalová, 2014)
• Thematic 3D maps
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Our laboratory
• Equipment: – SMI RED 250 – Sampling frequency 120 Hz– Attached web camera
• Software– SMI Experiment center– SMI BeGaze– OGAMA– V-Analytics (a.k.a. CommonGIS)– R
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Shading in maps
• Three categories of shading in cartography– Slope Shading– Oblique shading– Combined shading
• Most frequently used is Conventional lighting Bernabé-Poveda et al., 2011
– The light is coming from the upper left corner of the map– This situation cannot occur in nature, but is the most effective for the
perception of plasticity (Imhof, 2007)
– Several reasons for support of South-East shading exists – BUT…users are so completely conditioned to a light source from above
left that they will percieve the terrain as a negativ (Imhof, 2007)
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The influence of lighting from the South-East
• Task – mark the highest point in the mapPerspective 3D map
2D map illuminated from the bottom-right corner
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The role of hill-shading in tourist maps
• Eye-tracking experiment• Total of 40 respondents (Within – subject study)• Total of 12 stimuli (screenshots from Mapy.cz)
– always a pair of maps
• The task was to find and mark particular hill or village
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Stimuli in the experiment
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Results of the questionnaire
• After the end of experiment, respondents were asked to fill the questionnaire:– Which type of map was more usable for solving the task– Which map type they like more
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Visualization of eye-tracking data
Attention maps in the stimuli from task 3 created in OGAMA software. Kernel 100px
Identified fixations in the stimuli from task 6 – Created from data of all respondents in OGAMA software. Radius = 20
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• Visualization of the grid representing the distribution of fixations within the stimulus
Ooms et al., 2014
• A regular grid of size 5x10 cells was created above each stimulus
• These values can be used in further analyses (adding, substracting, etc…)
Visualization of eye-tracking data
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Analyses of eye-tracking metrics
• At the beginning, the Trial Duration was analyzed„ How long it took to answer“
Comparing of the median values of Trial Duration. Error bars represent the interquartile range.
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Analyses of eye-tracking metrics• Fixation Count - A larger number of fixations indicates a lower level of efficiency
in the search. Goldberg and Kotval, 1999
• Scanpath Length - Depending on the size of this metric comprehensibility of stimuli or difficulty of the questions can be derived. Goldberg and Helfman, 2011
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Analyses of eye-tracking metrics
Trial Duration Fixation Count Fixation Duration Scanpath LengthTrial 1 0.06856 0.05789 0.65 0.01411Trial 2 0.03783 0.03093 0.004077 0.01853Trial 3 0.02155 0.02791 0.08049 0.01925Trial 4 0.02989 0.03659 0.3567 0.02497Trial 5 0.8785 0.9222 0.3303 0.8368Trial 6 0.000009 0.0004388 0.07838 0.000008
• Data were tested using the Wilcoxon test• Nonparametric test – data had not a normal distribution• Statisticaly significant differences between shaded and non-
shaded stimuli are highlighted
Results of the testing of the difference between shaded and non-shaded maps for four evaluated eye-tracking metrics. Data were analyzed using the Wilcoxon test for each pair of stimuli separately. Statistically significant differences (significance level of α = 0.05) are highlighted .
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Analyses of eye-tracking metrics
• In the next step, data were analyzed for all maps together (shaded vs. non-shaded)
• Statistically significant differences were found for all evaluated eye-tracking metrics except Fixation Duration
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Analyses of the role of the task
• The last part of data analyses was evaluation of the role of the task„If respondents were trying to find village (trial 1-3) or the hill (trial 4-6)“
• Statisticaly significant differences were found for all evaluated eye-tracking metrics
Village vs. Hill Aplha V p-value statementTrial Duration 0.05 5708.5 4.369e-16 Rejecting H0Fixation Count 0.05 4954 <2.2e-16 Rejecting H0Fixation Duration 0.05 17794.5 1.979e-06 Rejecting H0Scanpath Length 0.05 5499 <2.2e-16 Rejecting H0
Results of the testing of the difference between task dealing with finding village (trial 1-3) and hill (task 4-6) for four evaluated eye-tracking metrics. Data were analyzed using the Wilcoxon test. Statistically significant differences (significance level of α = 0.05) are highlighted .
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Analyses of the role of the task
• Finally, the statistical dependence between the type of the task (village – hill) and type of visualization (shaded – non-shaded) was analysed
• Testing of Trial Duration metric• Two-way ANOVA + TukeyHSDDvojice Diff Lwr Upr P adj3D hill-2D hill 655.050 -1828.5881 3138.688 0.90469022D village - 2D hill 4088.767 1605.1286 6572.405 0.00015443D village - 2D hill 8169.833 5686.1952 10653.471 0.00000002D village - 3D hill 3433.717 950.0786 5917.355 0.00226433D village - 3D hill 7514.783 5031.1452 9998.421 0.00000003D village - 2D village 4081.067 1597.4286 6564.705 0.0001598
Results of the comparison of the effect of question (village - hill) and visualization (shaded – non-shaded) for eye-tracking metric Trial Duration. (ANOVA* + TukeyHSD)
*Residuas from ANOVA comparison had not a normal distribution, but result of Bootstraping confirmed the accuracy of the results
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Dedendance between task and visualization method
• Type of the task:„It was more difficult to find a village, especially in the map with the shading
• Type of the visualization method:„Shaded variant of the maps were less usable – especially when the task was to find a village“
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Conclusion• An eye-tracking experiment containing tourist maps with and without
shading was created• The questionnaire showed that users liked shaded maps more than non-
shaded.• Shaded vs. Non-shaded
– When analysing eye-tracking metrics Trial Duration, Fixation Count a Scanpath Length statisticaly significant differences were found.
– Higher values were observed in the case of shaded maps
• Village vs. Hill– Statisticaly significant differences were found for all analysed eye-tracking metrics – Higher values were observed in the case of task about finding a village (except Fixation
Duration)
• It was easier to find hill than village• Search in shaded maps was less effective.
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Thank you for your attention
The presentation was made with the support of European Social Fund - Operational Program Education for Competitiveness (project CZ.1.07/2.2.00/28.0078 „InDOG“) and Internal Grant
Agency of Palacký University (project: PrF_2013_024)