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Examples of questions asked in the study
| Task type | Number of variables in the task | Question | Operation type | Question type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1v | 1 | Indicate the area visited by the least number of individual tourists. | extracting a single value | open |
| What hotel room price per night is possible in the area marked with symbol ‘X’? | closed | |||
| In which areas among those marked with letters are the trail lengths the shortest? | closed | |||
| T2v | 2 | What is the income from tourism in the area visited by the highest number of tourists? | localising an area according to values of two variables | closed |
| Indicate the area with the lowest hotel room price per night and, at the same time, the lowest number of restaurants. | open | |||
| Among areas with 11–20 tourists per 10 km of bike routes, indicate the one with the shortest length of bike trails. | open | |||
| T4v | 4 | In which group of areas marked with letters are the values of all variables the lowest? | finding areas representing extreme values of all four variables | closed |
| Indicate the area with extreme (min or max) values of at least three variables. | open | |||
| Are there areas with the highest values for all four indices? | closed |
Accuracy of different task types using the three tested maps
| Task type | Map type | Accuracy rate % | Cochran's Q | p | post hoc groups | Bonferroni post hoc | p |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T4v | M4v | 73.33 | 4.000 | 0.135 | - | - | - |
| M4v | 60.00 | 4.545 | 0.103 | - | - | - | |
| M4v | 73.33 | 6.500 | 0.039 * | M4v – M2v | −1.837 | 0.199 |
Fixation duration on legend AOI while using the three tested maps
| Task type | Map type | M (sec.) | SD | Friedman's Fr | p | post hoc groups | Bonferroni post hoc | p |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T4v | M4v | 12.16 | 8.750 | 24.400 | <0.001 *** | M4v – M2v | 2.191 | 0.085 |
| T2v | M4v | 21.61 | 12.237 | 14.533 | <0.001 *** | M4v – M2v | 3.469 | 0.002 ** |
| T1v | M4v | 8.56 | 5.669 | 0.533 | 0.766 | - | - | - |
Answer time while solving different task types using the three tested maps
| Task type | Map type | M (sec.) | SD | Friedman's Fr | p | post hoc groups | Bonferroni post hoc | p |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T4v | M4v | 49.44 | 20.003 | 3.733 | 0.155 | - | - | - |
| T2v | M4v | 66,71 | 25.925 | 3.733 | 0.155 | - | - | - |
| T1v | M4v | 35.89 | 12.147 | 2.133 | 0.344 | - | - | - |
Fixation duration on maps with legends while solving different task types using the three tested maps
| Task type | Map type | M (sec.) | SD | Friedman's Fr | P | post hoc groups | Bonferroni post hoc | p |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T4v | M4v | 27.41 | 12.036 | 8.533 | 0.014 * | M4v – M2v | 1.461 | 0.432 |
| T2v | M4v | 31.86 | 14.368 | 3.333 | 0.189 | - | - | - |
| T1v | M4v | 16.21 | 5.552 | 12.133 | 0.002 ** | M4v – M2v | -0.183 | 1.000 |
Rating of task difficulty after using the three tested maps
| Task type | Map type | M | SD | Friedman's Fr | p | post hoc groups | Bonferroni post hoc | p |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T4v | M4v | 2.80 | 0.262 | 8,619 | 0.013 * | M4v – M2v | 2.373 | 0.053 |
| T2v | M4v | 2.80 | 0.327 | 2.476 | 0.290 | - | - | - |
| T1v | M4v | 2.20 | 0.200 | 11.886 | 0.003 ** | M4v – M2v | 0.730 | 1.000 |
Fixation duration on map AOI while using the three tested maps
| Task type | Map type | M (sec.) | SD | Friedman's Fr | P | post hoc groups | Bonferroni post hoc | p |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T4v | M4v | 15.25 | 7.269 | 0.933 | 0.627 | - | - | - |
| T2v | M4v | 10.25 | 5.159 | 6.933 | 0.031 * | M4v – M2v | −2.556 | 0.032 * |
| T1v | M4v | 7.64 | 4.738 | 6.933 | 0.031 * | M4v – M2v | −1.826 | 0.204 |