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A taxonomy of tasks for guiding the evaluation of multidimensional visualizations

Eliane Valiati — 2006-11-15T11:23:50-00:00

(2006), pp. 1-6.

Task taxonomy for graph visualization

Bongshin Lee — 2006-11-15T11:19:21-00:00

(2006), pp. 1-5.

An Evaluation of Microarray Visualization Tools for Biological Insight

P Saraiya — 2006-11-15T10:59:49-00:00

Information Visualization, 2004. INFOVIS 2004. IEEE Symposium on (2004), pp. 1-8.

High-throughput experiments such as gene expression microarrays in the life sciences result in large datasets. In response, a wide variety of visualization tools have been created to facilitate data analysis. Biologists often face a dilemma in choosing the best tool for their situation. The tool that works best for one biologist may not work well for another due to differences in the type of insight they seek from their data. A primary purpose of a visualization tool is to provide domain-relevant insight into the data. Ideally, any user wants maximum information in the least possible time. In this paper we identify several distinct characteristics of insight that enable us to recognize and quantify it. Based on this, we empirically evaluate five popular microarray visualization tools. Our conclusions can guide biologists in selecting the best tool for their data, and computer scientists in developing and evaluating visualizations.

Rapid information architecture prototyping

Rashmi Sinha — 2005-05-16T20:54:21-00:00

(2004), pp. 349-352.

Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices (Voices That Matter)

Dan Saffer — 2006-09-02T09:41:38-00:00

(18 July 2006)

Explore the new design discipline that is behind such products as the iPod and innovative Web sites like Flicer. While other books on this subject are either aimed at more seasoned practitioners or else are too focused on a particular medium like software, this guide will take a more holistic approach to the discipline, looking at interaction design for the Web, software, and devices. It is the only interaction design book that is coming from a designers point of view rather than that of an engineer. This much-needed guide is more than just a how-to manual. It covers interaction design fundamentals, approaches to designing, design research, and more, and spans all mediums—Internet, software, and devices. Even robots! Filled with tips, real-world projects, and interviews, you’ll get a solid grounding in everything you need to successfully tackle interaction design.

Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed

Jakob Nielsen — 2005-05-19T12:23:22-00:00

(05 November 2001)

While there is a plethora of books available that provide tips on Web design, most authors leave a significant gap between the theory and practice--a gap that is left up to the reader to fill. Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed boldly steps into that gap with specific observations and suggestions backed with solid quantitative analysis. This book focuses only on home page design as the most important point of presence for any Web site. This definitive work is coauthored by Jakob Nielsen--the accepted industry expert in Web usability--and Marie Tahir, an expert in user profiling. Their collaboration has produced a guide of such rare practical benefit that Web designers will likely wear out their first copy scouring the pages to savor every last morsel of wisdom. The book begins with a chapter of precise guidelines that serve as a checklist of the features and functionality to include on your home page. The specifics found in categories such as "revealing content through examples" and "graphic design" will quickly hook you and whet your appetite for more. These guidelines are followed up with hard statistics and an examination of the ominous Jakob's Law: "Users spend most of their time on other sites than your site." Here you'll find some interesting statistics about how various conventions like search, privacy policies, and logos are used. All this leads up to the showcase element of the book--a systematic deconstruction of 50 of the most popular home pages on the Web. The authors painstakingly pick apart each in an uncompromising autopsy of usability. Each site is graphically analyzed for its use of real estate and summarized with the frankness only found from true experts. Then each section of the home page is bulleted and analyzed for potential improvements. It's a bold move to offer a critique of industry-standard Web sites such as Yahoo, CNET, and eBay, but the authors have done such a fine job that the designers of those sites will surely make reading this book a high priority. For the rest of us, this work will serve as an invaluable gospel. --Stephen W. Plain Topics covered: Design guidelines, convention usage, screen real estate, navigation, content presentation, search facilities, links, graphics and animation, advertising, news, customization, and customer feedback.

Don't Make Me Think : A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (2nd Edition)

Steve Krug — 2006-05-16T01:20:47-00:00

(18 August 2005)

Usability design is one of the most important--yet often least attractive--tasks for a Web developer. In Don't Make Me Think, author Steve Krug lightens up the subject with good humor and excellent, to-the-point examples. The title of the book is its chief personal design premise. All of the tips, techniques, and examples presented revolve around users being able to surf merrily through a well-designed site with minimal cognitive strain. Readers will quickly come to agree with many of the book's assumptions, such as "We don't read pages--we scan them" and "We don't figure out how things work--we muddle through." Coming to grips with such hard facts sets the stage for Web design that then produces topnotch sites. Using an attractive mix of full-color screen shots, cute cartoons and diagrams, and informative sidebars, the book keeps your attention and drives home some crucial points. Much of the content is devoted to proper use of conventions and content layout, and the "before and after" examples are superb. Topics such as the wise use of rollovers and usability testing are covered using a consistently practical approach. This is the type of book you can blow through in a couple of evenings. But despite its conciseness, it will give you an expert's ability to judge Web design. You'll never form a first impression of a site in the same way again. --Stephen W. Plain Topics covered: <ul><li>User patterns <li>Designing for scanning <li>Wise use of copy <li>Navigation design <li>Home page layout <li>Usability testing</ul> Yesterday's Web looked far different from today's Web, and tomorrow's Web will look more different still. Amidst all of this change, however, one aspect of Web use remains the same: The sites that offer the best, easiest, most intuitive experience are the ones people visit again and again. To ensure that your sites provide that experience, you need this essential guide from usability guru Steve Krug that distills his years of on-the-job experience into a practical primer on the do's and don'ts of good Web design. In this second edition, Steve adds three new chapters--in the same wry and entertaining style as the original--that explain why people really leave Web sites (Usability as Common Courtesy), how to make sites usable and accessible (Web Accessibility, CSS, and You), and the art of surviving executive design whims (Help! My Boss Wants Me to ____), plus a new preface and updated recommended reading.

Amazon.com: Information Architecture: An Emerging 21st Century Profession: Books: Earl Morrogh

Earl Morrogh — 2006-10-26T08:27:14-00:00

(4 November 2002)

From the Back Cover The first book to explore the roots of the emerging Information Architecture profession. A true foundations text, this book introduces the reader to: * Key innovations in the history of communications and computing * Technologies leading to the Information Age * The origins of the World Wide Web * Information architecture's pioneers * The emerging profession of information architecture Information Architecture: An Emerging 21st Century Profession features: * An abbreviated history of revolutionary information and communications technologies * Social and technology-related factors in information creation, communication, storage, and retrieval * Information Age-related problems * Information architecture practitioners, educators, and education programs * Visions for the future of information architecture

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites

Louis Rosenfeld — 2005-08-24T22:36:05-00:00

(15 August 2002)

Today's web sites have moved far beyond "brochureware." They are larger and more complex, have great strategic value to their sponsors, and their users are busier and less forgiving. Designers, information architects, and web site managers are required to juggle vast amounts of information, frequent changes, new technologies, and sometimes even multiple objectives, making some web sites look like a fast-growing but poorly planned city-roads everywhere, but impossible to navigate. Well-planned information architecture has never been as essential as it is now. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition, shows you how to blend aesthetics and mechanics for distinctive, cohesive web sites that work. Most books on web development concentrate on either the graphics or the technical issues of a site. This book focuses on the framework that holds the two together. This edition contains more than 75% new material. You'll find updated chapters on organization, labeling, navigation, and searching; and a new chapter on thesauri, controlled vocabularies and metadata will help you understand the interconnectedness of these systems. The authors have expanded the methodology chapters to include a more interdisciplinary collection of tools and techniques. They've also complemented the top-down strategies of the first edition with bottom-up approaches that enable distributed, emergent solutions.A whole new section addresses the opportunities and challenges of practicing information architecture, while another section discusses how that work impacts and is influenced by the broader organizational context. New case studies provide models for creating enterprise intranet portals and online communities. Finally, you'll find pointers to a wealth of essential information architecture resources, many of which did not exist a few years ago.By applying the principles outlined in this completely updated classic, you'll build web sites and intranets that are easier to navigate and appealing to your users, as well as scalable and simple to maintain. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition is a treasure trove of ideas and practical advice for anyone involved in building or maintaining a large, complex web site or intranet.

Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web

Christina Wodtke — 2005-07-27T11:40:00-00:00

(16 October 2002)

All web sites have an architecture, whether you design one or not-just as every building has an architecture, from the lowly shanty by the railroad track to Chicago's tallest skyscraper. Unfortunately, most web sites are shanties, not skyscrapers. Companies that hastily threw up a web site in the dot-com boom days were visited by building inspector Jakob Neilsen, who told them their site should be condemned. But now we are entering a time of rebuilding, and we've got a chance to get it right. Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web introduces the core concepts of information architecture: organizing web site content so that it can be found, designing web site interaction so that it's pleasant to use, and creating an interface that is easy to understand. This book will help designers, project managers, programmers, and other information architecture practitioners avoid the costly mistakes of the past by teaching the skills of information architecture swiftly and clearly. Use this book and you will pass the usability inspection with flying colors!

Interaction Design

Jennifer Preece — 2005-07-03T01:36:48-00:00

(17 January 2002)

Accomplished authors, Preece, Rogers and Sharp, have written a key new textbook on this core subject area. Interaction Design deals with a broad scope of issues, topics and paradigms that has traditionally been the scope of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Interaction Design (ID). The book covers psychological and social aspects of users, interaction styles, user requirements, design approaches, usability and evaluation, traditional and future interface paradigms and the role of theory in informing design. The topics will be grounded in the design process and the aim is to present relevant issues in an integrated and coherent way, rather than assembling a collection of chapters on individual HCI topics. KEY FEATURES: * This truly integrated approach to HCI provides students with background information from psychology, sociology, anthropology, information systems and computer science * Provides principles and skills for designing any technology through the use of many interesting and state of the art examples * The author supported, highly interactive Web Site provides resources that allow students to collaborate on experiments, participate in design competitions, collaborate on design, find resources and communicate with others * The accompanying Web Site also features examples, step-by-step exercises and templates for questionnaires CONTENTS: Preface 1. What is interaction design? Interview with Gitta Saloman 2. Understanding and conceptualizing interaction Interview with Terry Winograd 3. Understanding users 4. Understanding and designing for collaboration and communication Interview with Abigail Sellen 5. Understanding how interfaces affect users 6. The process of interaction design Interview with Gillian Crampton Smith 7. Identifying needs and establishing requirements Interview with Suzanne Robertson 8. Design, prototyping and construction 9. User-centered approaches to interaction design Interview with Karen Holtzblatt 10. Introducing evaluation 11. A framework for evaluation 12. Observing users Interview with Sara Bly 13. Asking users and experts Interview with Jakob Nielsen 14. Testing and modeling users Interview with Ben Shneiderman 15. Doing design and evaluation in the real world: communicators and advisory systems Epilogue Glossary

Designing the User Interface

Ben Schneiderman — 2006-01-13T20:35:47-00:00

(06 May 2004)

About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design

Alan Cooper — 2005-11-01T14:19:45-00:00

(17 March 2003)

First published seven years ago-just before the World Wide Web exploded into dominance in the software world-About Face rapidly became a bestseller. While the ideas and principles in the original book remain as relevant as ever, the examples in About Face 2.0 are updated to reflect the evolution of the Web. Interaction Design professionals are constantly seeking to ensure that software and software-enabled products are developed with the end-user's goals in mind, that is, to make them more powerful and enjoyable for people who use them. About Face 2.0 ensures that these objectives are met with the utmost ease and efficiency. Alan Cooper (Palo Alto, CA) has spent a decade making high-tech products easier to use and less expensive to build-a practice known as "Interaction Design." Cooper is now the leader in this growing field. Mr. Cooper is also the author of two bestselling books that are widely considered indispensable texts. About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design, intro-duced the first comprehensive set of practical design principles. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum explains how talented people and companies continually create aggravating high-tech products that fail to meet customer expectations. Robert Reimann has spent the past 15 years pushing the boundaries of digital products as a designer, writer, lecturer, and consultant. He has led dozens of interaction design projects in domains including e-commerce, portals, desktop productivity, authoring environments, medical and scientific instrumentation, wireless, and handheld devices for startups and Fortune 500 clients alike. Joining Cooper in 1996, Reimann led the development and refinement of many goal-directed design methods described in About Face 2.0. He has lectured on these methods at major universities and to international industry audiences. He is a member of the advisory board of the UC Berkeley Institute of Design.

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum : Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How To Restore The Sanity

Alan Cooper — 2005-10-06T03:19:40-00:00

(06 April 1999)

In this book about the darker side of technology's impact on our lives, Alan Cooper begins by explaining that unlike other devices throughout history, computers have a "meta function:" an unwanted, unforeseen option that users may accidentally invoke with what they thought was a normal keystroke. Cooper details many of these meta functions to explain his central thesis: programmers need to seriously reevaluate the many user-hostile concepts deeply embedded within the software development process. Rather than provide users with a straightforward set of options, programmers often pile on the bells and whistles and ignore or deprioritize lingering bugs. For the average user, increased functionality is a great burden, adding to the recurrent chorus that plays, "computers are hard, mysterious, unwieldy things." (An average user, Cooper asserts, who doesn't think that way or who has memorized all the esoteric commands and now lords it over others, has simply been desensitized by too many years of badly designed software.) Cooper's writing style is often overblown, with a pantheon of cutesy terminology (i.e., "dancing bearware") and insider back-patting. (When presenting software to Bill Gates, he reports that Gates replied: "How did you do that?" to which he writes, "I love stumping Bill!") More seriously, he is also unable to see beyond software development's importance--a sin he accuses programmers of throughout the book. Even with that in mind, the central questions Cooper asks are too important to ignore: Are we making users happier? Are we improving the process by which they get work done? Are we making their work hours more effective? Cooper looks to programmers, business managers, and what he calls "interaction designers" to question current assumptions and mindsets. Plainly, he asserts that the goal of computer usage should be "not to make anyone feel stupid." Our distance from that goal reinforces the need to rethink entrenched priorities in software planning. --Jennifer Buckendorff <HTML>The Inmates are Running the Asylum argues that, despite appearances, business executives are simply not the ones in control of the high-tech industry. They have inadvertently put programmers and engineers in charge, leading to products and processes that waste huge amounts of money, squander customer loyalty, and erode competitive advantage. They have let the inmates run the asylum. Alan Cooper offers a provocative, insightful and entertaining explanation of how talented people continuously design bad software-based products. More importantly, he uses his own work with companies big and small to show how to harness those talents to create products that will both thrill their users and grow the bottom line.</HTML>

Data characterization for intelligent graphics presentation

Steven Roth — 2005-05-16T18:23:47-00:00

(1990), pp. 193-200.

An analysis of the influence of need for cognition on dynamic queries usage

Giuseppe Carenini — 2005-05-15T22:22:09-00:00

(2001), pp. 383-384.

Are there benefits in seeing double?: a study of collaborative information visualization

Gloria Mark — 2005-05-15T20:08:05-00:00

(2003), pp. 840-841.

Visualizing resource allocation tasks

P Pu — 2005-05-13T04:03:40-00:00

Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE, Vol. 17, No. 4. (1997), pp. 6-9.

Allocating resources-whether labor or tools-is a ubiquitous task in factories, hospitals, airlines and communication network companies. It also exemplifies decision-making problems involving complex, changing criteria and presents unusual challenges to information systems from the modeling and problem-solving points of view. We present information visualization techniques to reallocate resources for flight rescheduling. Our work, done in collaboration with Swissair, concentrates on human-computer problem solving and how visualization techniques can help users perceive the entire solution space in four abstraction models to make the “right” decision. We call our technique “coordinated visualization”

Enriching buyers' experiences: the SmartClient approach

Pearl Pu — 2005-05-13T02:42:30-00:00

(2000), pp. 289-296.

Evaluating example-based search tools

PHZ Pearl — 2005-05-13T02:41:55-00:00

(2004), pp. 208-217.

User-involved preference elicitation

P Pu — 2005-05-13T02:39:09-00:00

(2003)

When searching for configurable products, helping users to state their preferences is a crucial task. It involves helping users to understand the space of feasible configurations to decide on realistic preferences.

Integrated Support from Problem Structuring through to Alternative Evaluation Using COPE and V·I·S·A

Valerie Belton — 2005-04-10T23:10:31-00:00

Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, Vol. 6, No. 3. (4 December 1998), pp. 115-130.

Coordinated Views for Informed Spatial Decision Making

2005-04-04T04:33:44-00:00

Heuristic evaluation of user interfaces

Jakob Nielsen — 2005-04-01T08:24:49-00:00

(1990), pp. 249-256.

"Finding the Underlying Links within Analytical Applications,"

Bartel Van De Walle — 2005-03-31T09:26:42-00:00

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Technical Report, 1999.

Human-Centered Information Visualization

J Zhang — 2005-03-31T06:44:24-00:00

Experience prototyping

Marion Buchenau — 2005-03-17T16:13:45-00:00

(2000), pp. 424-433.

Analytic hierarchy process: it can work for group decision support systems

Hyun-A Choi — 2005-03-20T11:24:56-00:00

Comput. Ind. Eng., Vol. 27, No. 1-4. (1994), pp. 167-171.

A Model-Based Visualization Taxonomy

M Tory — 2005-03-14T08:12:54-00:00

(2002)

Frameworks for organizing literature and ideas in visualization are valuable since they allow us to gain a higherlevel understanding of the state of visualization research. Current taxonomies of visualization techniques are problematic because the terminology is vague. We present a new taxonomy based on models of a data set rather than attributes of the data itself. This method addresses several problems with existing classification schemes and generates less ambiguous visualization categories.

Informed spatial decisions through coordinated views

N Andrienko — 2005-03-03T09:53:20-00:00

Information Visualization, Vol. 2, No. 4. (December 2003), pp. 270-285.

According to a commonly accepted view, the process of decision making comprises three major phases: intelligence (situation analysis and problem recognition), design (finding possible variants of problem solution), and choice (evaluation of the options and selection of the most appropriate ones). It is widely recognised that exploratory data visualisation is very helpful during the first phase of the decision-making process, while the other phases require different software tools. In particular, the choice phase is typically supported by various computational methods that find appropriate trade-offs among multiple conflicting criteria taking into account user-specified priorities. Visualisation plays a limited role: in the best case, it is used to represent the final results of the computations. We argue that conscious, well-substantiated choice requires a more extensive use of exploratory visualisation facilities, which need to be properly coordinated with the computational multi-criteria decision support methods. Extremely important is a high degree of user interactivity, which allows the user to probe the robustness and quality of computationally derived solutions. We suggest several mechanisms for linking and coordinating visual exploratory tools with two types of computational methods differing in the sort of output they produce. We demonstrate the use of this dynamic link with an example of a real spatially related decision problem.Information Visualization (2003) 2, 270–285. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ivs.9500058

Is a picture worth a thousand words?: an evaluation of information awareness displays

Christopher Plaue — 2005-03-03T05:44:24-00:00

(2004), pp. 117-126.

When conventions collide: the tensions of instant messaging attributed

Amy Voida — 2005-03-02T01:11:05-00:00

(2002), pp. 187-194.

Awareness of presence, instant messaging and WebWho

Peter Ljungstrand — 2005-03-02T01:09:33-00:00

SIGGROUP Bull., Vol. 21, No. 3. (December 2000), pp. 21-27.

A problem-oriented classification of visualization techniques

Stephen Wehrend — 2005-02-22T23:48:04-00:00

(1990), pp. 139-143.

Snap-together visualization: can users construct and operate coordinated visualizations?

Chri North — 2005-02-22T22:40:43-00:00

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Vol. 53, No. 5. (November 2000), pp. 715-739.

Multiple coordinated visualizations enable users to rapidly explore complex information. However, users often need unforeseen combinations of coordinated visualizations. Snap-together visualization (Snap) enables users to rapidly and dynamically construct coordinated-visualization interfaces, customized for their data, without programming. Users U001load data into desired visualizations, then construct coordinations between them for brushing and linking, overview and detail view, drill down, etc. Snap formalizes a conceptual model of visualization coordination based on the relational data model. Visualization developers can easily Snap-enable their independent visualizations using a simple API.Empirical evaluation reveals benefits, cognitive issues and usability concerns with coordination concepts and Snap. Two user studies explore coordination construction and operation. Data-savvy users successfully, enthusiastically and rapidly constructed powerful coordinated-visualization interfaces of their own. Operating an overview-and-detail coordination reliably improved user performance by 30-80% over detail-only and uncoordinated interfaces for most tasks.

Evaluating visualizations: using a taxonomic guide

E Morse — 2005-02-22T22:35:49-00:00

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Vol. 53, No. 5. (November 2000), pp. 637-662.

Although visualizations are components of many information interfaces, testing of these visual elements is rarely undertaken except as a part of overall usability testing. For this reason, it is unclear what role, if any, visualizations actually perform. Our method involves the creation of simple visual prototypes and task sets based on a visual taxonomy which allows testing of the visualization in isolation from the rest of the system. By defining tests using a visual taxonomy rather than customary tasks from the application domain, our method circumvents the problems of restricting evaluation of newer more capable systems to only those tasks which might be accomplished with older, less capable ones. This paper will discuss methods for exhaustively testing the capabilities of a visualization by mapping from a domain-independent taxonomy of visual tasks to a specific domain, i.e. information retrieval. Experimental results are presented illustrating this approach to determining the role visualizations may play in supporting users in information-seeking environments. Our methods could easily be extended to other domains including data visualization.

A unified taxonomic framework for information visualization

Darius Pfitzner — 2005-02-22T22:33:09-00:00

(2003), pp. 57-66.

DECISION MAPPING: UNDERSTANDING DECISION MAKING PROCESSES

F Bouchart — 2005-01-31T14:53:00-00:00

Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems, Vol. 19, No. 3. (1 January 2002), pp. 187-207.

The task of arriving at an engineering decision typically involves extensive and complex analyses, the evaluation of alternatives, and the resolution of conflicts between stakeholders. Research into institutional frameworks, decision making, and decision support tools have guided improvements in the quality of decisions. However, existing organisational structures and decision frameworks must be acknowledged and addressed if the desired improvements are to be realised. A mapping technique is proposed that allows the existing decision-making processes and information flows to be identified and analysed. The result is a mechanism to understand the context and processes of the decision task, and ultimately to aid in the introduction of new decision protocols and decision support systems.

The challenge of information visualization evaluation

Catherine Plaisant — 2005-02-22T22:19:19-00:00

(2004), pp. 109-116.

ValueCharts: analyzing linear models expressing preferences and evaluations

Giuseppe Carenini — 2005-02-22T05:09:13-00:00

(2004), pp. 150-157.

The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations

Ben Shneiderman — 2005-02-22T22:13:10-00:00

(1996)

BEST PAPER: A Knowledge Task-Based Framework for Design and Evaluation of Information Visualizations

Robert Amar — 2005-02-22T22:10:15-00:00

(2004), pp. 143-150.

Visual task characterization for automated visual discourse synthesis

Michelle Zhou — 2005-02-22T22:02:54-00:00

(1998), pp. 392-399.