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People often believe that fidelity is an important principle of cartographic information representation, that is, the closer of the geo information representation to the real world the better. However, excessively high fidelity of geo information representation does not necessarily bring about effective navigation and convenient reading, as excessive information representation may bring about cognitive burden to users, thereby affecting usability of users. Based on study of the form of the traditional map representation of China, the author finds that during drawing of map by the ancient people, in view of the user’s mental model and the specific setting for use, they were good at adopting multiple forms of information representation to lessen user’s cognitive burden, increase user’s intuition for reading, and bring about effective navigation. For inspiration of geographic information design, this kind of form of user’s mental model-oriented information representation is of certain significance.
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Yang, R., Li, D., Zhou, W. (2007). A Study on the Form of Representation of the User’s Mental Model-Oriented Ancient Map of China. In: Jacko, J.A. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. Interaction Design and Usability. HCI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4550. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73105-4_110
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