Beyond Beck: Design Of Schematic Maps From (Representational Epistemic) First Principles
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The Representational Epistemic approach to the design of notations and visualizations is used to create a new design transit map that is a fundamental departure from the near universal format that has nodes for stations, lines for tracks and symbols for details. Instead the new design exploits a containernode-symbol-colour format for stations, tracks, details and identities. The London Underground is used to provide an exemplar of the new design.
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تاریخ انتشار 2014