Aporia in the maps of the hypermedia systems

  • Authors:
  • Francisco Cipolla-Ficarra

  • Affiliations:
  • HCI Lab - F&F Multimedia Communications Corp., Alaipo - Asociacióón Latina de Interacción Persona - Ordenador, and Ainci - Asociación Internacional de Comunicación Interac ...

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Human interface: Part I
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Aporia is a Greek word meaning helplessness or difficulty in dealing with, or finding out about, something. This investigation is aimed at determining the aporia existing in the present maps with satellite and traditional pictures. Moreover, we present a quality metric called antinomy, to eradicate the aporia in the design of interactive systems with cartographic contents. The present quality metrics can be applied to the digital maps. The importance of traditional iconography is also stressed in the maps and the need to carry out heuristic assessments before using a new iconography. We need to increase the quality in hypermedia systems, communicability and efficiency of the digital maps, quite aside from location, the multimedia technological support used in the presentation of the cartographic information into computers, palms, mobile phones, etc., and potential users of the interactive systems.