SUBJECT

Geovisualization

lecture

master

Faculty of Informatics

3

Semester 1

Autumn semester

• Visualization importance in human cognition. Information visualization, data visualization, scientific visualization, geovisualization.

• Processes of human vision, visual space. Spatial vision, language, memory and learning.

• Spatial cognition, orientation, wayfinding and navigation. Reference frames for spatial orientation. The development of the category of space and representation.

• External and internal spaces, cognitive and mental maps. Spatialization, abstract and virtual spaces.

• Representational tools and cognitive evolution. The development of geovisualization methods.

• Data model and representational model.

• Graphic semiotics: data relations and visual variables.

• Multimodal representation. Multimedia, virtual reality.

• Time: animation, visualization of spatio-temporal processes.

• Geovisualization and user interactivity.

• The effectiveness of visualization: research methods. Cognitive geovisualization research experiments, visualization of research data.

• MacEachren, A.M. – Kraak, M.J.: Exploratory cartographic visualization: advancing the agenda. In: Computers & Geosciences, 23 (4), 1997.

• Colin Ware: Information Visualization: Perception for Design. Interactive Technologies. Wiley, New York, 2011.

• Griffin, A.L., Fabrikant, S. I. (2012). More Maps, More Users, More Devices Means More Cartographic Challenges, Cartographic Journal, Vol. 49, No. 4: 298-301.

Suggested literature:

• Edward Tufte. Envisioning information. Plenum Press, Boston, 2001.

• Jacques Bertin: Semiology of Graphics. Univ. Of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1985.