TEMPO of Battle: Designing a Temporally Enabled Map for Presentation
Despite their ubiquity and utility as teaching and visualization tools, battlefield maps for military history education have received little formal research attention. To address the problem space of maps in military history, as well as various research questions surrounding it, a design-based study was undertaken to design, develop, and implement a new tool, the Temporally Enabled Map for Presentation (TEMPO). This study explores the broad problem of battlefield maps, time visualization, and military history: past and current maps in this educational domain visualize space and terrain well, but, as static artifacts, are often unable to visualize timing, luck, and event sequences. Drawing from relevant information visualization, cartography, and geography literature, an animated, interactive map of the battle of Midway intended for use in the traditional lecture classroom was designed and tested through a design-based research process.
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