TY - GEN
T1 - Perception and reality
T2 - 7th ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, ITS 2012
AU - Vishkaie, Rojin S.
AU - Levy, Richard
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - For urban and transportation planners, GIS has become an essential tool in land use planning and in the design of urban infrastructure. The use of PC-based GIS software has made it possible to analyze massive data sets on an urban scale. Although there is a wide availability of new multi-touch displays such as smart-phones, tablets, tabletops and large wall displays, they are rarely used by planning professionals. This research explores the role that such displays may have with GIS experts, specifically urban planners. In conducting this research, interviews with GIS professionals focused on how they analyzed GIS data, as well as their perceptions of the types of tasks that maybe suitable for multi-touch displays. The primary tasks identified from the participants in the study were collaboration, visualization and data analysis. This research will further analyze the tasks, with respect to urban planners and consider the properties of various multi-touch displays to explore the role of multi-touch displays in the GIS context.
AB - For urban and transportation planners, GIS has become an essential tool in land use planning and in the design of urban infrastructure. The use of PC-based GIS software has made it possible to analyze massive data sets on an urban scale. Although there is a wide availability of new multi-touch displays such as smart-phones, tablets, tabletops and large wall displays, they are rarely used by planning professionals. This research explores the role that such displays may have with GIS experts, specifically urban planners. In conducting this research, interviews with GIS professionals focused on how they analyzed GIS data, as well as their perceptions of the types of tasks that maybe suitable for multi-touch displays. The primary tasks identified from the participants in the study were collaboration, visualization and data analysis. This research will further analyze the tasks, with respect to urban planners and consider the properties of various multi-touch displays to explore the role of multi-touch displays in the GIS context.
KW - gis
KW - multi-modal interaction
KW - multi-touch displays
KW - urban planning
KW - visualization
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U2 - 10.1145/2396636.2396677
DO - 10.1145/2396636.2396677
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84871260306
SN - 9781450312097
T3 - ITS 2012 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
SP - 265
EP - 270
BT - ITS 2012 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
Y2 - 11 November 2012 through 14 November 2012
ER -
