Campus cultural landscape map: design and user experience measurement

The campus culture map serves as a navigational tool and plays a crucial role in preserving, emphasizing, and disseminating campus culture due to its graphic, scientific, and portable nature. However, existing research predominantly focuses on evaluating the performance of maps while neglecting the user experience of campus cultural maps. This limits its potential in cultural communication and user interaction. Therefore, we designed a campus cultural landscape map, proposed our design approach at the same time, and then explored the user experience of the map in terms of usability, aesthetics and personal involvement. The experiment recruited 128 participants and evaluated the user experience of the campus cultural landscape map, including usability, personal involvement, and aesthetic evaluation. The findings indicate that the campus cultural landscape map has a high-quality user experience, with an appealing visual interface and high usability. At the same time, participants familiar with the campus cultural landscape have higher personal input when using the campus cultural landscape map. We hope the methods and case studies presented can help map makers and interface designers.