Metro Transit-Centric Visualization for City Tour Planning

In general, city trip planning consists of two main steps: knowing Points‐Of‐Interest (POIs), and then planning a tour route from the current point to next preferred POIs. We mainly consider the metro for traveling around touristic cities as the main means of transportation. In this context, existin...

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Published in:Computer graphics forum Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 271 - 280
Main Authors: Claudio, Pio, Yoon, Sung-Eui
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2014
Subjects:
Analysis
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Human-centered computing [Visualization]: Visualization application domains-Geographic visualization
Information processing
Interactive
Networks
Routing
Routing (telecommunications)
Studies
Surveying
Tourism
Tours
Transportation
Visual
ISSN:0167-7055, 1467-8659
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Summary:In general, city trip planning consists of two main steps: knowing Points‐Of‐Interest (POIs), and then planning a tour route from the current point to next preferred POIs. We mainly consider the metro for traveling around touristic cities as the main means of transportation. In this context, existing tools lack a capability to effectively visualize POIs on the metro map for trip planning. To bridge this gap, we propose an interactive framework that holistically combines presentations of POIs and a metro network. Our idea is to identify popular POIs based on visual worth computation, and to introduce POI discovery for effectively identifying POIs within reach of a metro network for users. We use octilinear layouts to highlight the metro network, and show representative POI images in the layout space visualized within a user‐specified viewing window. We have implemented our working prototype showing touristic cities with a metro network. We have factored out various design guidelines that are basis for designing our method, and validated our approach with a user study surveying 70 individuals.
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ISSN:0167-7055
1467-8659
DOI:10.1111/cgf.12383