Carolyn S Fish

• PhD Geography
• Professor (Assistant) at University of Oregon

The different ways that maps are framed by the media can lead to different emotional responses to the same information. Framing shapes the way in which information is presented, and frames are used by authors and designers to focus the reader’s attention in order to lead them to a particular interpretation of the information being communicated. Thi...

Maps and geographic information systems (GIS) have become vital tools for decision-making, communication, and outreach in the domain of urban energy sustainability. One emerging example involves interactive online maps that allow users to assess rooftop solar energy potential on a building of interest. These maps are interesting in two ways: they a...

The explosion of map use in the past few decades as part of everyday activities, accelerated through the digital production and dissemination of maps and the availability of low-cost, location-aware devices, has made the job of cartographers and map display designers more challenging. Yet, how do these recent changes affect effective map design? Ca...

Academic libraries increasingly offer geospatial services to support the teaching and research activities of all university disciplines. Ironically, services tend to be most used by those who are already routinely using geographic information systems (GIS) in their research and similar activities. We present a workflow by which library-based GIS se...

Animated maps are becoming more prevalent today. They are found across the web on social media and traditional media sites. With technological changes, how these maps are developed and viewed has changed for both the designer and the map reader, with new tools available to the designer and a endless amount of new devices available to the user. Howe...

Animated maps are becoming more prevalent today. They are found across the web on social media and traditional media sites. With technological changes, how these maps are developed and viewed has changed for both the designer and the map reader, with new tools available to the designer and a endless amount of new devices available to the user. Howe...

Animated maps are becoming more prevalent today. They are found across the web on social media and traditional media sites. With technological changes, how these maps are developed and viewed has changed for both the designer and the map reader, with new tools available to the designer and a endless amount of new devices available to the user. Howe...

The development of a fully renewable and sustainable energy system is a spatial problem. Renewable energy systems are acutely sensitive to local geographical nuances. Further, intensive renewable energy development requires significant local changes to land-use and infrastructure. Despite these community impacts, development companies and governmen...

Animated maps are becoming more prevalent today. They are found across the web on social media and traditional media sites. With technological changes, how these maps are developed and viewed has changed for both the designer and the map reader, with new tools available to the designer and a endless amount of new devices available to the user. Howe...

We present a new physiographic map of Michigan, that is also available interactively, online. Only four, small-scale physiographic maps of Michigan had been previously published. Our mapping project made use of a wide variety of spatial data, in a GIS environment, to visualize and delineate the physical landscape in more detail than has been done p...

Animated choropleth maps enable cartographers to visualize time-series data in a way that congruently depicts change over time. However, users have difficulty apprehending information encoded within these displays, and often fail to detect important changes between adjacent scenes. Failures of visual experience, such as change blindness, threaten t...

To ensure effective communication of spatio-temporal geographic ideas, observers must accurately perceive and comprehend dynamic visual representations of geographic information. However, some of the most fundamental perceptual questions about the effectiveness of dynamic displays of GI remain unanswered. For instance, misunderstood issues about le...

Animated maps and dynamic graphics have become more prominent in recent years. Computer animation enables cartographers to visualize time-series data as never before; we can build dynamic sequences that congruently depict change over time. However, recent research has found that readers have difficulty comprehending changes within these animations,...