Tangible Map Research Articles

Madison and Vicinity: A Tangible Map Quilt

Madison and Vicinity: A Tangible Map Quilt

UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA IN THE MAP OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

American literature shapes its narrative, form and ideology by the streams of historical events, political turmoil, land acquisition and conquest, civil wars and slavery. These very pivotal elements pertain to every theory or any literary criticisms that develop through time. Literature itself is timeless and universal but the birth of every literary criticism rejuvenates the perspective of preceding literary form itself. Utopia literature exposes the so called imagined perfect society where every realm of life is flawless. Utopia is just a notion of social depiction where high expectation is exercised and dreamt for. It is expressed as social critic at the same time where society at the time the utopia literature written is deteriorating or even crumbled. Dystopia, the derivative of Utopia sees it the other way around, it gives a reverse psychology consequence where everything is controlled and perfect would never be achieved. Dystopia criticizes Utopia for dreaming the dream of perfect society which the salient feature of dystopia against it. Dystopia gives us a clear understanding that our world in the future could be returned to the tyranny where the power of a nation relies on an evil leader. Dystopia seems relevant at the present even though it depicts the future society. Therefore, American literature embraces utopia and dystopia as American’s effigy of today’s life. The objective of this study is to trace, codify and comprehend the development of american’s utopia and dystopia literature through some works that have been written to present us a tangible map of the utopia and dystopia streams of literature.

Touching and traveling on 3D augmented tangible maps for learning geography

PurposeTangible physical maps which are enhanced by new digital forms of interaction can become an invaluable asset for learning geography in an embodied way. The purpose of this work is to evaluate an interactive augmented three-dimensional (3D) tangible map on which students interact and travel with their fingers.Design/methodology/approachA total of 58 fourth-grade students from eight elementary schools participated in the study. The participants played with the FingerTrips environment in 24 sessions and in groups of two or three. Each session lasted for about 20-25 min. After completing the interactive game, the students answered a questionnaire concerning their attitudes toward the tangible environment and participated in a short interview.FindingsStudents’ responses revealed that FingerTrips managed to transform the experience of meeting new places, understanding spatial relations and learning geography. Students supported that such an approach is closer to their interactive experiences and expectations, and exploits embodied learning affordances to achieve enjoyable learning. Students identified their finger-based trips as an effective and intriguing static haptic guidance that helped them learn more effectively.Originality/valueThe specific approach has two distinctive characteristics. First, a new interaction style on the map is suggested, the use of trips with fingers. Students have to follow predefined engraved paths on the 3D terrain to sense distances and changes in altitude and “touch” the topology asked to understand and explore. Second, it is examined whether a low fidelity interactive 3D terrain, which can be easily reconstructed and reprogrammed by primary school students, can become a useful canvas for learning geography.

Transcribing from the Mind To the Map: Tracing the Evolution of a Concept

Transcribing what is held in one's mind to a tangible map is experiencing a multidisciplinary renewal. Sketch mapping is being utilized to identify a range of community concerns, as well as for more generally revealing otherwise invisible landscapes. Whether the aim is to understand preference, perception, knowledge, or behavior, the result is some form of map. The genesis of this concept is usually attributed to seminal work in the 1960s and 1970s geography, planning, and environmental psychology. However, its resurgence in the past decade has been driven by a confluence of recent methodological and epistemological developments across numerous disciplines surrounding the role of local knowledge in ecological frameworks and how this can be mapped and analyzed with and without geospatial technologies. With growing adoption of sketch mapping well beyond its initial disciplinary niches, it is appropriate to review its evolution in order to inform ongoing and future research.

The Tangible Map Exhibit

The Tangible Map Exhibit highlighted the importance of tangible, physical works in modern cartography and celebrated visually stunning, artistic maps created by contemporary makers. The exhibit was a part of the Map Gallery at the 2015 NACIS Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which was open to the public for the first time ever. It featured over fifteen works created by more than a dozen cartographers across North America and beyond.

FROM OPEN GEOGRAPHICAL DATA TO TANGIBLE MAPS: IMPROVING THE ACCESSIBILITY OF MAPS FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE

Abstract. Visual maps must be transcribed into (interactive) raised-line maps to be accessible for visually impaired people. However, these tactile maps suffer from several shortcomings: they are long and expensive to produce, they cannot display a large amount of information, and they are not dynamically modifiable. A number of methods have been developed to automate the production of raised-line maps, but there is not yet any tactile map editor on the market. Tangible interactions proved to be an efficient way to help a visually impaired user manipulate spatial representations. Contrary to raised-line maps, tangible maps can be autonomously constructed and edited. In this paper, we present the scenarios and the main expected contributions of the AccessiMap project, which is based on the availability of many sources of open spatial data: 1/ facilitating the production of interactive tactile maps with the development of an open-source web-based editor; 2/ investigating the use of tangible interfaces for the autonomous construction and exploration of a map by a visually impaired user.

Browsing and correlating architectural and territorial data in tangible maps – New knowledge opportunities in new learning places

This paper discusses the learning and educational potentialities of the Venice Unfolding prototype, an experimental tabletop application designed to explore and investigate urban and territorial contents and knowledge. The prototype supports and transforms ways of approaching various strategies involved in urban and territorial planning processes. It creates new ways of viewing, understanding and learning about urban and territorial environments and leads to a more efficient examination of their underlying characteristics. In doing so, it fosters greater knowledge generation about their use, evolution and growth. In this paper, the authors describe the prototype’s development, its fundamental concepts and its considerable instructional capabilities that have been piloted with educators and students.