A Framework for Visualizing Information
By: by Ed H. Chi
Series: The Springer International Series on HCI -- 1; Springer International Series on HCI -- 1.
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9789048160099; 9789401705738
Subjects: Computer graphics; Computer science; Data structures (Computer science)
Description: With a Foreword by Stuart Card. Information visualization is the design and creation of interactive graphic depictions of information by combining principles in the disciplines of graphic design, cognitive science, and interactive computer graphics. This book describes a framework to make information visualization systems easier to develop through the creation of a reference model. It develops and discusses the general utility of this Data State Model, and validates it by applying it to various visualization techniques and showing several systems that illustrate issues such as how to model operators and interactions in visualization systems. The book also applies this reference model to make information visualization more accessible to potential users by creating a `Visualization Spreadsheet', where each cell can contain an entire set of data represented using interactive graphics.
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Table of contents: title: List of Figures; title: List of Tables; title: Declaration; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgments; title: Foreword; title: Abstract; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Data State Reference Model; title: 3. Validation of Model; title: 4. Expressiveness of Data State Model; title: 5. Visualization Spreadsheet Illustrated; title: 6. Detailed Case Study: Web Analysis Visualization Spreadsheet; title: 7. Implementation Experience; title: 8. Related Work; title: 9. Conclusion; title: References; title: Index.