Evaluating User Experience in Literary and Film Geography-based Apps with a Cartographical User-Centered Design Lens

TL;DR

This paper explores innovative design opportunities for literary and film geography apps by applying a cartographical user-centered approach, addressing limitations of current geoweb technology applications in these fields.

Contribution

It introduces a novel framework for designing geography-based apps that integrate literary and film contexts with user-centered cartographical principles.

Findings

Identifies limitations in current geoweb applications for literary and film geography.

Proposes a new design framework for more integrated and user-focused geography apps.

Highlights potential for enhanced spatial understanding through improved app design.

Abstract

Geography scholarship currently includes interdisciplinary approaches and theories and reflects shifts in research methodologies. Since the spatial turn in geographical thought and the emergence of geo-web technologies, geography scholarship has leaned more toward interdisciplinarity. In recent years geographical research methods have relied on various disciplines ranging from data science to arts and design. Literary geography and film geography are two subfields of geography that employ novels and films in exploring spatiality, respectively. In addition to geographical concepts, these courses include many aspects of relations in space, including human-human relations, human-environment relations, et cetera, which were barely addressed in traditional geography courses. However, a review of the employment of geoweb technologies in literary and film geography practices reveals that these practices have mostly remained limited to isolating geographical passages from novels or movies. This paper explores new opportunities for designing film and literary geography-based apps using a cartographical user-centered design framework.