THE POSITIONING OF STREET NAMES ON EGOCENTRICALLY REFERENCED MAPS: ASSESSMENT OF READING TIME

Rego, Mariana Pereira do; Pugliesi, Edmur Azevedo; Tachibana, Vilma Mayumi

doi:10.1590/s1982-21702020000400017

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ORIGINAL ARTICLE • Bol. Ciênc. Geod. 26 (04) • 2020 • https://doi.org/10.1590/s1982-21702020000400017 copy

THE POSITIONING OF STREET NAMES ON EGOCENTRICALLY REFERENCED MAPS: ASSESSMENT OF READING TIME

O posicionamento de nomes de ruas em mapas referenciados egocentricamente: avaliação do tempo de leitura

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Abstract:

The main objective of this research is to evaluate the reading time of street names on dynamic egocentrically referenced maps for In-Car Route Guidance and Navigation Systems. Two different road network patterns (grid-like or non-grid-like) were considered and tasks were devised to search for street names in two different route segments (where the driver was, or where the driver would have to manoeuvre). Considering a non-grid-like road network pattern, for the task of searching for the name of a road where the driver would manoeuvre, street names aligned horizontally and next to the route were read significantly faster than street names positioned along the route. Street names positioned obliquely required more reading time than street names aligned horizontally. Dynamic maps egocentrically referenced should present street names horizontally aligned and next to the route for the segment related to where the driver will manoeuvre, for both road network patterns. Also, Street names should be positioned next to the car symbol.

Keywords:
In-car Route Guidance and Navigation System; map design; egocentric map; text positioning; map reading

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[1] AUTHOR´S CONTRIBUTION

Researched and selected theoretical references M.P.R.; Data collection: M.P.R.; Data processing: M.P.R.; Preparation of draft manuscript: M.P.R.; Review of the proposed method: M.P.R., E.A.P. and V.M.T; Supervision: E.A.P. and V.M.T.; Discussion of the results, data analysis and paper revision and refinement: all authors.

Design	Mean	Minimum time	Maximum time	Variance	Shapiro-Wilk (p-value)
H-GL-L1	1.83	1.05	5.26	0.807575	< 0.010
H-GL-L2	1.69	1.05	2.36	0.169044	< 0.010
H-GL-T1	1.70	1.01	2.33	0.168853	> 0.100
H-GL-T2	1.59	1.05	2.28	0.105049	> 0.100
H-NGL-L1	1.66	1.07	2.50	0.15346	> 0.100
H-NGL-L2	1.61	1.01	2.49	0.171248	> 0.100
H-NGL-T1	1.84	1.18	3.37	0.261416	< 0.010
H-NGL-T2	1.60	1.03	2.74	0.174457	< 0.010
A-GL-L1	1.76	1.01	3.98	0.365947	< 0.010
A-GL-L2	1.62	0.92	2.39	0.142481	< 0.010
A-GL-T1	1.69	1.18	2.59	0.219445	> 0.100
A-GL-T2	1.70	1.08	2.27	0.104448	> 0.100
A-NGL-L1	1.74	0.91	2.43	0.133801	> 0.100
A-NGL-L2	1.70	1.07	3.21	0.226267	> 0.100
A-NGL-T1	2.23	1.07	3.28	0.362515	> 0.100
A-NGL-T2	1.71	1.07	2.77	0.137324	> 0.100

Road network	Task	Statistical test	P-value
Grid-like	Street name where you are	Wilcoxon	0.463
Grid-like	Street name where you would turn	T-Student	0.565
Non-grid-like	Street name where you are	T-Student	0.272
Non-grid-like	Street name where you would turn	Wilcoxon	0.004

Positioning	Task	Statistical test	P-value
Aligned horizontally next to the route	Name of street where you are	Wilcoxon	0.108
Aligned horizontally next to the route	Name of street where you will turn	Wilcoxon	0.433
Along the route	Name of street where you are	Wilcoxon	0.896
Along the route	Name of street where you will turn	T-Student	< 0.000