designing information anh dang nirali patel IxDA Interaction 08 Savannah, GA February 9, 2008 Bullets example

Bullets example

information visualization Interaction Elements visual representation of data interactive amplifies cognition card, mackinlay, shneiderman

visual representation of data

interactive

amplifies cognition

Interaction Elements I DON’T GET IT! WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO LOOK AT? IT TAKES TOO LONG TO GET WHAT’S GOING ON! IT’S TOO ARTSY!

there is virtually unlimited freedom in how we represent data. The difficult question is how best to represent it. william wright Interaction Elements Visualcomplexity.com

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IxDA Interaction 08 Attendees Map to Visual Features

first approach

second approach

assign data types Map to Visual Features quantitative ordinal nominal gender city state country # of attendees city state country

Map to Visual Features visual features position length angle slope area volume density saturation hue texture connection containment shape

mackinlay’s visual features Automating the Design of Graphical Presentations of Relational Information | Jock MacKinlay

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Interaction Elements

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information seeking mantra Interaction Elements overview first zoom & filter details on demand ben shneiderman

overview first

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Interaction Elements resources Card, Stuart, MacKinlay, Jock, and Shneiderman, Ben. Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think. San Diego: Academic Press, 1999. MacKinlay, Jock. "Automating the design of graphical presentations of relational information." ACM Transactions on Graphics . Volume 5 , Issue 2. April 1986: 110 – 141. Ware, Colin . Information Visualization, Second Edition: Perception for Design . San Francisco: Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 2004. http://visualcomplexity.com http://infosthetics.com

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