Articles | Volume 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/agile-giss-4-51-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/agile-giss-4-51-2023
06 Jun 2023
 | 06 Jun 2023

Where do people look at during multi-scale map tasks?

Laura Wenclik and Guillaume Touya

Keywords: cartography, pan-scalar maps, eye-tracking, zooming, landmarks

Abstract. In order to design better pan-scalar maps, i.e. interactive, zoomable, multi-scale maps, we need to understand how they are perceived, understood, processed, manipulated by the users. This paper reports an experiment that uses an eye-tracker to analyse the gaze behaviour of users zooming and panning into a pan-scalar map. The gaze data from the experiment shows how people look at landmarks to locate the new map view after a zoom. We also identified different types of behaviours during a zoom when people stare at the mouse cursor, or during a pan where the gaze follows a landmark while the map translates.

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