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View article: Do Blue Light Filters Reduce Visual Fatigue When Using Digital Maps? An Eye Tracking Experiment to Promote Vision Health
Do Blue Light Filters Reduce Visual Fatigue When Using Digital Maps? An Eye Tracking Experiment to Promote Vision Health Open
In this paper, we present an eye tracking experiment to evaluate how blue light filtering of digital maps reduces visual fatigue and thus promotes vision care in public health. Prolonged exposure to light from digital screen reading result…
View article: Making maps & visualizations for mobile devices: A research agenda for mobile-first and responsive cartographic design
Making maps & visualizations for mobile devices: A research agenda for mobile-first and responsive cartographic design Open
In this article, we present a collective research agenda for mobile-first and responsive cartographic design. The research agenda explicitly focuses on challenges regarding design, and we begin by establishing a partial design space for mo…
View article: Green Cartography: A research agenda towards sustainable development
Green Cartography: A research agenda towards sustainable development Open
The role of cartography in environmentally-sustainable development is twofold: first, useful and usable maps enable sense making and decision making about environmental processes, impacts, and protections; second, maps themselves, as digit…
View article: Artificial Intelligence Studies in Cartography: A Review and Synthesis of Methods, Applications, and Ethics
Artificial Intelligence Studies in Cartography: A Review and Synthesis of Methods, Applications, and Ethics Open
The past decade has witnessed the rapid development of geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) primarily due to the ground-breaking achievements in deep learning and machine learning. A growing number of scholars from cartography have d…
View article: Range Mapper: An Adaptable Process for Making and Using Interactive, Animated Web Maps of Late-Quaternary Open Paleoecological Data
Range Mapper: An Adaptable Process for Making and Using Interactive, Animated Web Maps of Late-Quaternary Open Paleoecological Data Open
Here, we describe our process of developing Range Mapper, a new set of online interactive and animated visualizations of plant taxon range shifts since the Last Glacial Maximum. These animated maps of taxa distributions since the last degl…
View article: Design and Evaluation of Coastal Web Atlases: Best Practices and Future Opportunities for Map Representation, Interaction, and Usability
Design and Evaluation of Coastal Web Atlases: Best Practices and Future Opportunities for Map Representation, Interaction, and Usability Open
In this article, we examine best practices and future opportunities for the design of coastal web atlases (CWAs) supporting adaptive management. Coastal zones face significant challenges, and CWAs have emerged as a resource to organize map…
View article: Visual Storytelling with Maps
Visual Storytelling with Maps Open
Visual storytelling describes the communication of stories through illustrations, graphics, imagery, and video instead of, or in addition to, oral, written, and audio formats. Compared to their popularity and wide reach, empirical research…
View article: A Design Challenge for Transforming Justice
A Design Challenge for Transforming Justice Open
Transforming Justice is a collaborative project that aims to challenge the dominant narratives of policing and segregation in Milwaukee through community workshops, visual arts and storytelling, and experimental mapping. This Practices and…
View article: Web Mapping: A Workbook for Interactive Cartography and Visualization on the Open Web
Web Mapping: A Workbook for Interactive Cartography and Visualization on the Open Web Open
This workbook introduces the practical skills needed to develop interactive maps and visualizatons on the open web. Compared to a traditional textbook, this workbook utilizes a "spiral" curriculum of short but interconnected lessons that i…
View article: Web Mapping: A Workbook for Interactive Cartography and Visualization on the Open Web
Web Mapping: A Workbook for Interactive Cartography and Visualization on the Open Web Open
This workbook introduces the practical skills needed to develop interactive maps and visualizatons on the open web. Compared to a traditional textbook, this workbook utilizes a "spiral" curriculum of short but interconnected lessons that i…
View article: Mobile UX design: learning from the Flyover Country mobile app
Mobile UX design: learning from the Flyover Country mobile app Open
Technology has transformed maps into interactive tools for exploring and understanding the world. In this article, we present the user experience (UX) design process for Flyover Country (http://flyovercountry.io), a mobile mapping applicat…
View article: Toward green cartography & visualization: a semantically-enriched method of generating energy-aware color schemes for digital maps
Toward green cartography & visualization: a semantically-enriched method of generating energy-aware color schemes for digital maps Open
We introduce a semantically-enriched method of generating color schemes for various types of digital maps that reduces the energy consumption of the display device while preserving the quality of the original design. Energy-aware design in…
View article: Web Mapping: A Workbook for Interactive Cartography and Visualization on the Open Web
Web Mapping: A Workbook for Interactive Cartography and Visualization on the Open Web Open
This workbook introduces the practical skills needed to develop interactive maps and visualizatons on the open web. Compared to a traditional textbook, this workbook utilizes a "spiral" curriculum of short but interconnected lessons that i…
View article: Web Mapping: A Workbook for Interactive Cartography and Visualization on the Open Web
Web Mapping: A Workbook for Interactive Cartography and Visualization on the Open Web Open
This workbook introduces the practical skills needed to develop interactive maps and visualizatons on the open web. Compared to a traditional textbook, this workbook utilizes a "spiral" curriculum of short but interconnected lessons that i…
View article: Web Mapping: A Workbook for Interactive Cartography and Visualization on the Open Web
Web Mapping: A Workbook for Interactive Cartography and Visualization on the Open Web Open
This workbook introduces the practical skills needed to develop interactive maps and visualizatons on the open web. Compared to a traditional textbook, this workbook utilizes a "spiral" curriculum of short but interconnected lessons that i…
View article: Cartographic Design as Visual Storytelling: Synthesis and Review of Map-Based Narratives, Genres, and Tropes
Cartographic Design as Visual Storytelling: Synthesis and Review of Map-Based Narratives, Genres, and Tropes Open
In this article, I review considerations and techniques for approaching cartographic design as visual storytelling. Stories, like maps, are a method for documenting and explaining, for meaningfully abstracting our experiences, for communic…
View article: Web Mapping: A Workbook for Interactive Cartography and Visualization on the Open Web
Web Mapping: A Workbook for Interactive Cartography and Visualization on the Open Web Open
This workbook introduces the practical skills needed to develop interactive maps and visualizatons on the open web. Compared to a traditional textbook, this workbook utilizes a "spiral" curriculum of short but interconnected lessons that i…
View article: Age and Growth of Niagara River Lake Sturgeon
Age and Growth of Niagara River Lake Sturgeon Open
Knowledge of the distribution of ages of fish within a stock, and subsequently individual growth rates, allows managers the ability to calculate key metrics (i.e., recruitment, mortality, and stock growth rate) that greatly improve stock a…