Presentation for the paper 'Usability and GIS – why your Boss should buy you a larger monitor'. See povesham.wordpress.com for the full paper.

1. Usability and GIS – why your boss should buy you a larger monitor Muki Haklay Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, UCL

4. Why do we end up with this?

5. Why are GIS hard to use?

6. Why are GIS hard to use?

7. Why are GIS hard to use?

8. Why are GIS hard to use?

14. Memorability?

15. Learnability ? Source: Coddinghorror

16. Error rate/user satisfaction Anita Adendorff (South Africa) wrote at 8:07pm on August 29th, 2007: “ At least yours still has the decency to apologize! Mine crashes without any indication leaving me wondering for 5-10 minutes whether it's just taking ages to open the doc or if it has called it a day. I have become VERY familiar with consulting the task list. Ag man, dis als so boring!” Source: Facebook, F*ck you, ArcMap!

17. Efficiency/error rate/learnability

20. Paper maps vs. computer maps

24. Source: Skarlatidou, 2005

25. The size of the map matters

27. Results Large monitor Small monitor Differences: 69% more operations on a small screen and additional 2 minutes...