MyScale: Making personal paraphrases and replacement of scales

This paper describes a method to replace commonly used scales with personalized scales. We explain a notion of personalized scales and describe our replacement system, the MyScale interface. Two prototypes of MyScale are shown. MyScale: heights, distances, weights and areas replaces numeric expressions of common scales with personalized scales in order to assist a user´s intuitive understanding. MyScale: Map provides an interface so that the distance and location on the original map can be compared directly with familiar locations on the user´s map.