Change Blindness in Animated Choropleth Maps
An Empirical Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12751125 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carolyn S Fish (0000-0002-2366-5035, corresponding author), Kirk Goldsberry, Sarah E Battersby (0000-0003-2716-4382) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 350-362 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cartography and Geographic Information Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1523-0406 • E-ISSN: 1545-0465 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1559/15230406384350 |
| OpenAlex | W2151560815 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 8 |
Animated choropleth maps enable cartographers to visualize time-series data in a way that congruently depicts change over time. However, users have difficulty apprehending information encoded within these displays, and often fail to detect important changes between adjacent scenes. Failures of visual experience, such as change blindness, threaten the effectiveness of dynamic geovisual displays, in which several important changes can occur simultaneously throughout the display. Animated choropleth maps require viewers not only to notice changes but also understand symbolic meanings encoded in rapid transitions between scenes. Graphic interpolation between key frames, also known as "in-betweening" or "tweening", smoothes transitions and lengthens the duration of the transition between scenes in a dynamic sequence. Previous cartographic literature suggests tweening could be a potential solution for change blindness in the cartographic context. This article examines this issue of change blindness in the cartographic context and reports on a human subjects investigation designed to evaluate the influence of cartographic design variables on map readers' change detection abilities. Our results indicate that 1) map readers have difficulty detecting changes in animated choropleth maps, 2) map readers over-estimate their own change detection abilities, and 3) tweening influences the legibility of change in animated choropleth maps. Keywords: CHANGE BLINDNESSCHOROPLETH MAPSANIMATION
Cartography · Change blindness · Change detection · Context (archaeology · Data science · Geography · Legibility · Notice · Visual arts · Computer Science · Data Visualization and Analytics · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes · Artificial Intelligence
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Animation
| Unique citing works | 13 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |