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Medyckyj-Scott, D. J. and Blades, M. (1991): Cognitive Representations of Space in the Design and Use of Geographical Information Systems. In: Diaper, Dan and Hammond, Nick (eds.) Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the British Computer Society Human Computer Interaction Specialist Group - People and Computers VI August 20-23, 1991, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. pp. 421-433.

“Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are multi-user, multi-functional systems concerned with handling and analysing spatially-referenced data. While technically sophisticated they are still poor with regard to their degree of usability. Although ergonomic principles can be applied to improve the usability of such systems, a more effective approach is to reduce the amount of cognitive and behavioural modification required by the user by incorporating ideas of how they represent and think about space into the design of GIS. The purpose of this paper is to summarize some of the research currently being conducted into GIS design using this cognitive-behaviourist approach (i.e. user interfaces, spatial query languages, visual representations, conceptual design). The paper begins by describing our current knowledge about how people mentally represent and transform space and then describes how this knowledge is being and might be applied to the design of more usable GIS.”

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