Open meeting @ ICC&GIS June 15th, 2016 Albena, Bulgaria

1. Open Meeting
15 June 2016 - Albena, Bulgaria

2. Working Group established at ICC
2005 in A Coruña, Spain
Upgraded to Commission at ICC
2007 in Moscow, Russia
Continuation at ICC 2011 in Paris,
France
Continuation at ICC 2015 in Rio de
Janeiro, France (until 2019)
Short History

3. How do we operate?
http://icaci.org
Rob Roth
Artemis
Skarlatidou
Alena Vondráková
Kristien Ooms
http://use.icaci.org

4. How do we operate?
• Small commission ‘core’
– website, bibliography, facilitation of the organization of workshops /
seminars and all relationships with ICA
• Corresponding Commission members
– Mailing list of > 125 people
– Through website
– Mainly from science, many PhD candidates
• Goals:
– Inform > Share & exchange > Facilitate
• Through:
– Workshops & Congresses
– Website & Publications

5. Broadening of scope:
not just map use

6. Not only MAP use issues …
But also use and user issues related to, e.g.:
– Data and databases
– Other output formats
– Software and information systems
– Hardware
– Interfaces
From map use research to use, user & usability research
in geo-information processing and
dissemination…..

7. Does it work?
User-Centred Design / requirement
analysis
Methods and techniques of use, user &
usability research

8. User Centred Design
methods & techniques
Analyse
Requirements
Produce Design
Solutions
Conceptual
Design
& Prototype
Final Design
& Prototype
Interim
Designs &
Prototypes
Identify the
need for
user-centred
design
Design
satisfies
requirements
Evaluate Designs
Testing with
representative
users
input
Business
User
StakeholderOrganisational
Characteristics Preferences
Use contexts Tasks
Techniques e.g.:
Qualitative
Focus groups
Interviews
Observation
Thinking aloud
Questionnaires
Screen logging
Eye tracking
Performance analysis
Quantitative
User research data
analysis techniques
Prototyping
Requirement
analysis
Usability
evaluation

9. Interviews Product analysis Literature / document
studies Observation Brainstorming Surveys /
questionnaires Thinking aloud Eye-tracking Heuristic
evaluation Personas Scenario development Screen logging
Snapshot studies Focus groups Stakeholder meeting
Participatory design Retrospection Card sorting Task
analysis and modelling Cognitive walkthrough Diary /
notekeeping (empathy probes) Introspection Usability
inspections Performance testing User satisfaction
measurement Expert evaluation
Many user research
methods & techniques

10. Problem …
Not many guidelines
for applying
commonly known methods & techniques
of use, user and usability research
in geo-information science.

11. Achievements
• Website
– THE information sharing platform
– Online bibliography
– Database of experts
• Meetings & events
– Workshop
– Open Meetings
– Sessions at conferences
– Business meetings
• Publications

12. Website
http://use.icaci.org
– Past and upcoming meetings
– Vacancies and PhD positions
– Publications, Phd and Msc theses
– …
Planned:
– NEW WEBSITE
– online overview & FAQ
 usability methods and techniques
 aspects of experiment design
 tips for analysis
 why/when one would use the techniques

13. Online bibliography
• Publications on use, user and usability issues in
cartography and geo-information processing
• Accessible through our website
• Annotated entries (a.o. keywords, based on our
classification of use topics)
• Dynamic with possibility of search queries

14. Meetings & events
Business meetings:
• Paris, France (ICC 2011) (+ open meeting)
• Vienna, Austria (2011) (LBS2011)
• Gent, Belgium (2012)
• Dresden, Germany (2013)
• Olomouc, Czech Republic (2014)
• Curitiba / Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2015)
• Albena, Bulgaria (2016)

15. • Paris, France
– 6 oral UUI sessions @ ICC2011
• Dresden, Germany
• 3 oral UUI sessions @ ICC2013
• Tampa, Florida, USA
– Sessions @ AAG 2014
• Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– 4 use and user issues (oral) sessions @ ICC 2015
• San Fransisco, California, USA
• 3 (joint) session @ AAG on use, cognition and visualization
Workshops, seminars, conference sessions
Workshops, seminars, conference sessions

16. – Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (support 4th Workshop on
Usability of Geographic Information) (2012)
– Vienna, Austria (co-organizer symposium on Service
Oriented Mapping, SOMAP2012)
– Olomouc, Czech Republic – CARTOCON 2014
Workshops, seminars, conference sessions

17. • Paris, France (pre ICC 2011 Workshop on User Issues
in Geospatial Public Transport Information)
Field experiment with
the public transport system
of Paris
Workshops, seminars, conference sessions

18. – Columbus, Ohio, USA (workshop on Designing &
Conducting User Studies @ AutoCarto2012, with ICA
Commission on Cognitive Visualization)
Workshops, seminars, conference sessions

19. – Paris, France (contributing to and supporting
organization of the pre-CHI 2013 workshop on
Geographic Human-Computer Interaction)
Outreach to HCI community
Workshops, seminars, conference sessions

20. – Dresden, Germany (pre-ICC2013 workshop on Eye-
Tracking, with ICA Commission on Cognitive
Visualization and ICA Commission on
Geovisualization)
Workshops, seminars, conference sessions

21. • Curitiba, Brazil (pre ICC2015 workshops)
– WS1 - “How to design and conduct user studies” (together
with the ICA Commission on Cognitive Visualization)
– WS 2 - “Envisioning the future of cartographic research”
(together with the ICA Commissions on Cognitive
Visualization and Geovisualization and Map Design)
Workshops, seminars, conference sessions

22. • Jobst, M. (ed.) (2012), Service-Oriented Mapping 2012.
Proceedings. Wien: JOBSTMedia / ISBN-10: 3-9502039-2-3
• Van Elzakker, C.P.J.M. & A.L. Griffin (2013), Focus on
geoinformation use – Cognitive and use and user issues in
contemporary cartography. GIM International, ICC2013
special issue.
• Van Elzakker, C.P.J.M. (2013) The atlas of experience. In:
Geospatial World, 4 (2013)4 pp. 34-36.
• Van Elzakker, C.P.J.M. and Forrest, D. (2014) Reflections on
"Usability evaluation of web mapping sites". In: Landmarks
in mapping : 50 years of the Cartographic Journal / ed. by K.
Field and A.J. Kent. Leeds: Maney Publishing, 2014. ISBN:
978-1-909662-38-4. pp. 257-260
Publications

23. • Van Elzakker, C.P.J.M. (2014) Aandacht voor gebruik en
gebruikers bij de Internationale Kartografische Vereniging
(ICA). In: Geo - Info : vakblad voor geo - informatie
Nederland (GIN), 11 (2014)2 pp. 24-27.
• Contributions to a special issue of Cartographic Perspectives
published on the occasion of AAG 2014. For the table of
contents, see:
http://www.cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journa
l/issue/view/cp77
• Contributions to: Brus, J.; Vondrakova, A. & Vozenilek, V.
(Eds.) (2015) Modern Trends in Cartography. Selected
papers of CARTOCON 2014. Lecture Notes in
Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer. ISBN: 978-3-319-
07925-7 (Print) 978-3-319-07926-4 (Online).
Publications
Publications

24. Future Plans
• 6th International Symposium on the History of
Cartography
– October 13-14, 2016
– Dubrovnik, Croatia
• International Cartographic Conference 2017!!!
– July 2-7, Washington, USA
– Pre-conference workshop; 0pen meeting
– Sessions
• Deadline submissions: 26 October 2016
• Conference theme T07
User studies; user experience and usability; user interface design.
http://icc2017.org/

25. ICA Commission on
Use, Users, and Usability Issues

26. ICA Commission on
Use, Users, and Usability Issues
Terms of Reference 2015-2019
exchange of knowledge, news, and information on use, users,
and usability in cartography, geo-information processing, and
related fields.

27. ICA Commission on
Use, Users, and Usability Issues
bibliography on use, user, and usability research in cartography and related
fields. TOPICS:
use case studies with print, web-based, and
mobile maps
methods and
techniques for
evaluating products
use of emerging mapping
technologies
Terms of Reference 2015-2019

28. ICA Commission on
Use, Users, and Usability Issues
review paper from bibliographical database
includes a final research agenda on map use, users, and
usability for Cartography.
Terms of Reference 2015-2019

29. ICA Commission on
Use, Users, and Usability Issues
online overview & FAQ
 usability methods and techniques
 aspects of experiment design
 tips for analysis
 why/when one would use the techniques
 (replaces planned book publication)
Terms of Reference 2015-2019

30. ICA Commission on
Use, Users, and Usability Issues
special sessions on map use, users, and usability
 at future ICA conferences
 other regional conferences on cartography and related topics.
 gather and communicate original scientific contributions
Terms of Reference 2015-2019

31. ICA Commission on
Use, Users, and Usability Issues
training workshops for non-specialists on use, user, and usability
issues in Cartography and related fields
 resulting training materials  commission’s website!
Terms of Reference 2015-2019

32. ICA Commission on
Use, Users, and Usability Issues
special journal issue with sibling ICA Commissions
Terms of Reference 2015-2019

33. ICA Commission on
Use, Users, and Usability Issues
participate in and contribute to workshops
and seminars organized in
 other disciplines (e.g. Computer Science, Geography, GIScience)
 by other ICA Commissions
Terms of Reference 2015-2019

34. ICA Commission on
Use, Users, and Usability Issues
Involve & support
young (PhD) researchers
 researchers from different cultural environments
promote scientific research
Terms of Reference 2015-2019

35. INTERESTED?
Join us !!!
Mail to
Stay up-to-date through our mailing list
Kristien.Ooms@UGent.be

36. Know your user

37. Thank you for your attention!
Contact:
kristien.ooms@ugent.be
www.univie.ac.at/icacomuse/