Deducing parameters for personalizing maps from map interaction patterns

  • Authors:
  • Beate Weninger

  • Affiliations:
  • HafenCity University Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2012 ACM international conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Interactive maps on the internet have become frequently used means to convey spatial information to the public. However, many maps are not developed to suit a variety of users and thus lead to frustration. To user-center maps we therefore recommend to personalize them to individual users. As many parameters that can be used as a trigger for personalization are not easy to be logged on the internet, we suggest user-map interaction. Interaction can be easily tracked and gives comprehensive information about map use. Since no interpretation of user-map interaction is available it is the aim of this PhD to observe interaction, and to evaluate and interpret it. We hypothesize that there are map interaction patterns, means recurring sequences of consecutive actions which are necessary to complete a task. Our goal is to deduce parameters for personalization from these map interaction patterns.