Algorithmically-Assisted Interactive Metro Map Design (SIGSPATIAL 2022)

Описание: Online demo: https://tcvdijk.github.io/intermetro/...

Abstract
Metro maps are one of the main ways for users of the public transport system to orient themselves and plan trips. Designing good metro maps is a complex task, the automation of which has been widely studied. Despite this, human-designed maps are still of distinctly higher quality than those created automatically. This is because it is hard to formalise what a good map is in general, but also because there are usually portions of the map where deviations from a supposedly “optimal” solution – according to the general measure – are preferable and creativity is needed.
This paper describes the design of systems that tackle this with algorithmically-assisted user interaction. Starting from a fast metro map drawing algorithm by Bast, Brosi and Storandt, we describe a variety of ways a designer may want to interact with the automatically generated map. We discuss design considerations for such a system, the limitations of our current prototype, challenges for making this into a production system, and the promise of algorithmically-assisted user interaction.

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