Low-Level Components of Analytic Activity in Information Visualization Export

@inproceedings{Allendoerfer2005, abstract = {ared more towards the design of particular representations than the facilitation of user analytic activity. We present a set of ten low-level analysis tasks that largely capture people's activities while employing information visualization tools for understanding data. To help develop these tasks, we collected nearly 200 sample questions from students about how they would analyze five particular data sets from different domains. The questions, while not being totally comprehensive, illustrated the sheer variety of analytic questions typically posed by users when employing information visualization systems. We hope that the presented set of tasks is useful for information visualization system designers as a kind of common substrate to discuss the relative analytic capabilities of the systems. Further, the tasks may provide a form of checklist for system designers.}, address = {Minneapolis, MN}, author = {Allendoerfer, Kenneth and Aluker, Serge and Panjwani, Gulshan and Proctor, Jason and Sturtz, David and Vukovic, Mirjana and Chen, Chaomei and Amar, Robert and Eagan, James and Stasko, John}, citeulike-article-id = {609075}, editor = {Stasko, John and Ward, Matt and Stasko, John and Ward, Matt}, keywords = {597b, activity, analytic, design, discovery, evaluation, geovisualization, knowledge, taxonomy}, pages = {111--109}, posted-at = {2006-05-01 16:28:37}, priority = {0}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, title = {{L}ow-{L}evel {C}omponents of {A}nalytic {A}ctivity in {I}nformation {V}isualization}, year = {2005} }

TY - CONF ID - Allendoerfer2005 L3 - citeulike-article-id:609075 N2 - ared more towards the design of particular representations than the facilitation of user analytic activity. We present a set of ten low-level analysis tasks that largely capture people’s activities while employing information visualization tools for understanding data. To help develop these tasks, we collected nearly 200 sample questions from students about how they would analyze five particular data sets from different domains. The questions, while not being totally comprehensive, illustrated the sheer variety of analytic questions typically posed by users when employing information visualization systems. We hope that the presented set of tasks is useful for information visualization system designers as a kind of common substrate to discuss the relative analytic capabilities of the systems. Further, the tasks may provide a form of checklist for system designers. AD - Minneapolis, MN EP - 109 TI - {L}ow-{L}evel {C}omponents of {A}nalytic {A}ctivity in {I}nformation {V}isualization PB - IEEE Computer Society SP - 111 KW - 597b KW - activity KW - analytic KW - design KW - discovery KW - evaluation KW - geovisualization KW - knowledge KW - taxonomy AU - Allendoerfer, Kenneth AU - Aluker, Serge AU - Panjwani, Gulshan AU - Proctor, Jason AU - Sturtz, David AU - Vukovic, Mirjana AU - Chen, Chaomei AU - Amar, Robert AU - Eagan, James AU - Stasko, John A2 - Stasko, John A2 - Ward, Matt A2 - Stasko, John A2 - Ward, Matt PY - 2005/// ER -