Quiz on Public Participation in GIS

What is the key to facilitating the involvement of different groups using GIS?

• Advanced satellite technology

• High-speed internet connection

• Virtual reality headsets

• Good human-computer interaction

What is the main focus of PPGIS?

• Building autonomous robots

• Creating social media platforms

• Developing video games

• Perceive, manipulate & interact with representations of the real world

What is one of the uses of geovisualization in PPGIS?

• Creating virtual reality games

• Making the growing complexity of land-use planning intelligible

• Developing mobile applications

• Designing fashion models

What was the Zaca fire and when did it occur?

• A tornado in Kansas in 2015

• A wildfire in Santa Barbara County in 2007

• A volcanic eruption in Hawaii in 2010

• A flood in New Orleans in 2005

What type of data was heavily relied upon during daily briefings in the Santa Barbara County Emergency Operations Center?

• Social media posts

• Radio signals

• GIS data fed from members of the public

• Television broadcasts

What can three-dimensional representations be used for?

• Revealing aspects of data not easily observable in two dimensions

• Playing video games

• Creating music videos

• Writing novels

What is the purpose of scientific visualization (ViSC) and virtual reality?

• Developing cooking recipes

• Designing clothing

• Providing new ways of visualizing and interacting with the world

• Creating virtual pets

What can immersive and semi-immersive systems allow users to do?

• Teleport to different dimensions

• Travel through time

• Fly to outer space

• Access virtual environments and select different views of phenomena

What is the main contribution of geovisualization to decision making?

• Creating illusions

• Predicting the future

• Simulating changes to reality

• Playing mind games

What is one of the limitations of human cognition mentioned in the text?

• Providing a selective filter on the reality that it seeks to represent

• Never making mistakes

• Being able to understand everything instantly

• Having unlimited processing power