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Based on environmental visually-oriented design within the building,it analysed the consistency of guide system and the significance and effects of accurate transfer mainly from the study of information communication,relationship between visual guide and environment,as well as guide the design and the interactive relationship between users.Keywords:
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In this research, we explore the integration of computational and visual
approaches, to contribute to the analysis of complex geospatial data.
Computational analysis based on the SOM is used in a framework for data
mining, knowledge discovery and spatial analysis, for uncovering the
structure, patterns, relationships and trends in the data. The framework
is informed by current understanding of the effective application of
visual variables for cartographic and information design, by developing
theories on interface metaphors for geospatial information displays, and
by previous empirical studies of map and information visualization
effectiveness. It is used to facilitate the knowledge construction
process by supporting user's exploratory tasks in a number of ways,
including a scenario for better use of the representational spaces. The
ultimate goal is to support visual data mining and exploration, and gain
insights into underlying distributions, patterns and trends, and thus
contribute to enhancing the understanding of geographic processes and
support knowledge construction.
The framework guided the initial design decisions of a prototype
exploratory geovisualization environment. The visualization environment
incorporates several graphical representations of SOM output. These
include a distance matrix representation, 2D and 3D projections, 2D and
3D surfaces, and component plane visualization with which correlations
and relationships can be easily explored. Multiple views are used to
simultaneously present interactions between several variables over the
space of the SOM, maps, and other graphics such as parallel coordinate
plots. Some applications of the method are explored with different
datasets.
A usability evaluation methodology based on a taxonomy of exploratory
tasks and visualization operations is developed to assess the
effectiveness of the proposed exploratory geovisualization environment.
A subsequent empirical usability testing is conducted and involves
different options of map-based and interactive visualizations of a SOM
output with the exploration of a socio-demographic dataset. The study
emphasizes the visual exploration and knowledge discovery processes.
The usability test results and answers to the research questions provide
some guidelines for geovisualization design that integrate different
representations such as maps, parallel coordinate plots and other
information visualization techniques. The research shows that visual
exploration can be enhanced by combining the attribute space and the
geographic space visualizations. To be effective, this integration of
visual tools needs to be done appropriately since these tools are found
to support different visual tasks. For visual grouping and clustering,
visual analysis and comparison of the patterns in the data, and for
revealing relationships, the SOM was found more effective than the map.
The usability test results suggest that the integration of map and other
representations techniques such as parallel coordinate plot and the
SOM-based visualization of the attributes space should reflect the
potential of each visual tool. The attribute space visualization is
effective as a visual data mining tool allowing the user to select,
filter, and output results. The results of this process can be viewed in
maps, since the map was generally a better representation for tasks that
involve visual attention and sequencing (locate, distinguish, rank).
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Visibility has a significant impact on health-related outcomes and experiences of users in healthcare settings. Built environments determine interpersonal visual relationships between users and control their ability to see (or be seen by) others. Despite this importance, metrics that fully and precisely describe these interpersonal visual relationships are lacking. In this article, we introduce the Agent Visibility Analysis Model and the SAVisualPower software, which enable person-centric visibility analysis for quantifying visual relationships both among users and between users and visual targets. The model precisely captures users' visibility by reflecting the orientation of users and by differentiating visual contents of the users-space, other users, and targets. By providing practical examples of the new model using layouts from previous studies, this article describes specific visibility metrics that can be analyzed by the new tool and how the tool can be applied to design and research in healthcare settings for improved user experiences.
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This chapter proposes that the Information Systems (IS) discipline can serve as a reference discipline for the Visual Design discipline and that visual design can reciprocate as a reference discipline for IS. To this end, it offers a pluralistic framework of Visual Systems Design (VSD) where the primary focus is on how the Visual Design discipline utilizes the intellectual know-how of IS concerning systems development. Because visual design is part of the aesthetic paradigm where interpretivism rules and IS is contained in the positivist paradigm, the chapter employs a multi-paradigm, theory-building approach to bridge these two paradigms and their constituent disciplines. The implications of VSD are discussed in the remainder of the chapter.
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The main concepts of a design tool and its testing supported by visualisation of GIS data in a VR system are described. The design tool should improve architectural design with respect to analysis and improving existing and planned urban environments regarding several quality criteria, especially those associated with visual aspects. Preconditions for defining the design tool's purpose are the determination of the "well-situated" urban elements, their impact on cognitive mapping, and the exploitation of this knowledge on cognitive mapping for the improvement of urban environments. Cognitive mapping is a kind of representation of schematic knowledge that a person has about familiar environments. A cognitive map is stored information or knowledge concerning the purpose and function of the environment. This leads to the conclusion that an urban environment design which takes the process of cognitive mapping into consideration, will be experienced by most people in the same way. Investigations of this process result in a theoretical model of elements of urban environments, their relationships and their dependencies. The theoretical platform of the tool is based on design theory, cognitive science and computer science. Design theory and cognitive science are used to develop the theoretical model. This theoretical model together with computer science are the basis for tool development.
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Analysis of problems of creation of visual information systems, many years of experience in designing them using their own methodological approaches allow to formulate the author's idea of modeling of visual information systems, based on factors of creation of visual information systems and measures for their application. The specificity of modeling of visual information systems in the environment of transport centers is revealed, which consists in the systematic coverage of the investigated objects and has the right to the individual uniqueness and originality of the applied methods and the creative product created. The main task of modeling the visual information systems of transport centers is to provide three aspects of design: information about and use of socially oriented information technologies. The principles, methods and means of modeling the visual information systems of transport centers are directly relevant to all stages of the creation and use of systems: analysis, design, development, experimental research and testing, evaluation, operation of equipment. Defining is the design and, in particular, modeling, that is, closely related to science and engineering activities to create a prototype, prototype elements or processes of the system. One of the characteristic features of the formation of visual information systems is their sufficiently rapid moral aging. They are constantly in need of expansion, development, modernization and improvement. The need for time is now to create a more maneuverable system of visual navigation of transport centers, which will be viable in the face of any change in social requests. For the design of visual information systems that can be adapted to certain changes, the modeling stage is the most necessary and relevant, as it provides the verification and forecasting of qualitative and quantitative indicators of each individual variant of the design solution.
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