Abstract
Abstract— An experiment was conducted with a Google Earth application which presents current and future land use in the Netherlands. Three visualization techniques representing future land use were compared: abstract colored surfaces, icons, and 3D-objects. None of the visualizations show a significant improvement of the accuracy of the information transfer or of the speed of the task performance in this experiment. The version with 3D-objects was appreciated most, and elicited more positive judgements on qualitative aspects of the perceived environment, although the visualization contained the same information as the other two conditions. This demonstrates the influence of the representation on the content, which should be considered in the design of visualizations for strategic government policy, as well as other purposes.
| Original language | Undefined/Unknown |
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| Title of host publication | Visualisation, 2009 International Conference |
| Editors | E. Banissi |
| Place of Publication | Los Alamitos |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Pages | 127-131 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Publication status | Published - 14 Jul 2009 |