So the point here is that we would have two views - a map-based view that could integrate with a GPS system, and the bar chart above that might be web-based (or available from a mobile device). In the map-based view, parking structures appear as rectangles with a certain level of color saturation; the more the saturation, the more parking spots available. Some other teams questioned this, thinking that more saturation gave it a full appearance, like it was full of cars. Some others said they thought our method made sense, so it’s a toss-up. Hovering over the garages would give additional information like the relative cost (maybe using $$ symbols), and how many spots are available right now.
The second view represents parking structure trends over time. The garages are represented on the x-axis, and the y-axis represents the number of spots available. A time slider (here shown at the top) allows users to scroll through the hours of the day and watch the ‘average’ # of spots increase and decrease. Users can also choose to narrow their search by selecting only weekdays, only weekends, or only certain days of the week from the drop-down in the upper left.
Here again there were questions about the units on the y-axis - we represented spaces available, but others thought that perhaps it should be spaces used. There was a little discussion around this, but in the end I think people agreed that spaces available made the most sense, since it makes more prominent those parking garages that you are in fact trying to find.
So the point here is that we would have two views - a map-based view that could integrate with a GPS system, and the bar chart above that might be web-based (or available from a mobile device). In the map-based view, parking structures appear as rectangles with a certain level of color saturation; the more the saturation, the more parking spots available. Some other teams questioned this, thinking that more saturation gave it a full appearance, like it was full of cars. Some others said they thought our method made sense, so it’s a toss-up. Hovering over the garages would give additional information like the relative cost (maybe using $$ symbols), and how many spots are available right now.
The second view represents parking structure trends over time. The garages are represented on the x-axis, and the y-axis represents the number of spots available. A time slider (here shown at the top) allows users to scroll through the hours of the day and watch the ‘average’ # of spots increase and decrease. Users can also choose to narrow their search by selecting only weekdays, only weekends, or only certain days of the week from the drop-down in the upper left.
Here again there were questions about the units on the y-axis - we represented spaces available, but others thought that perhaps it should be spaces used. There was a little discussion around this, but in the end I think people agreed that spaces available made the most sense, since it makes more prominent those parking garages that you are in fact trying to find.
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