Evaluation of the Efficiency of the Symbols Used in Maps of Kirkuk
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This paper presents a study of a controlled experiment based on the theory of selective attention, a concept that describes human ability to control unwanted stimuli and pay attention specifically to the desired information. The aim of this research is to study whether the perceptual characteristics of maps of urban lands affect the map reader's ability to extract information from different types of maps land according to the spatial level. The study concludes that despite the complexity of the urban land-use map, the participants in the statistical sample are consistently successful in responding accurately to the questions presented to them in identifying the designed symbols. The overall accuracy rate is 95.5%. Users rated the test models very positively in terms of their ability to read and understand the information on the map based on the results of the statistical analysis used in the study.
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