PERCEPTION OF TIME VARIABLES ON DYNAMIC

In recent years we have seen a variety of small dynamic maps in electronic media. The increasing use of the Internet and WWW has played a major role in the dis-semination of interactive map applications and animations. These applications often includes phenomena that have a temporal dimension. While the animation itself is well visualized, the information about the point of time may be “hidden away” in a corner of the presentation. This paper focuses on the visualization of the temporal dimension itself. Some proposed methods are tested on an audience.The methods that are based on per-ception of the “time information” by the peripheral sight seems promising.