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标题：The Card Sorting Method for Map Symbol Design
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作者：Robert Roth ; B.G. Finch ; J.I. Blanford 等
期刊名称：ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2194-9042
电子版ISSN：2194-9050
出版年度：2010
卷号：XXXVIII Part 4
出版社：Copernicus Publications
摘要：Here, we describe the potential utility of the card sorting method for structuring and refining map symbol sets. Card sorting hasbeen proposed as a method for delineating categories by researchers and practitioners in a variety of disciplines due to its abilityto identify and explicate real or perceived structures in an information space; however, there is little reported application of cardsorting within Cartography. To span this gap, we offer a framework that prescribes the appropriate methodological parametersfor card sorting according to the stage in the design process and the goals of the study. We then illustrate the utility of cardsorting for Cartography by describing a closed sorting study we conducted on the ANCI INCITS 415-2006 emergency mappingsymbol standard. Our approached helped us identify several barriers to using the symbol standard, including areas of conceptualoverlap among the categories in the standard, potentially missing categories from the standard, and individual symbols in thestandard that are consistently misclassified.
关键词：card sorting; map design; map symbology; emergency mapping; symbol standards; user-centered design;usability engineering; ANSI INCITS 415-2006