Space as a Metaphor – Design Guidelines and Evaluation of Map Imitation

Schlumpf, Sacha; Gartner, Georg; Engelhardt, Yuri; Lennox, Jethro

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Space as a Metaphor – Design Guidelines and Evaluation of Map Imitation

Sacha Schlumpf, Georg Gartner, Yuri Engelhardt, and Jethro Lennox

Sacha Schlumpf

Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

Georg Gartner

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2002-5339

Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

Yuri Engelhardt

University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands

Jethro Lennox

HarperCollins Publishers, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

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