Information visualization and the arts-science-social science interface
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia
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The core problem of the evaluation of Information Visualisation is that the end product of visualisation – the comprehension of the information from the data – is difficult to measure objectively. This paper outlines a description of visualisation comprehension based on two existing theories of perception: Principles of Perceptual Organisation and the Reverse Hierarchy Theory. The resulting account of the processes involved in visualisation comprehension enables evaluation that is not only objective, but also non-comparative, providing an absolute efficiency classification. Finally, as a sample application of this approach, an experiment studying the benefits of interactivity in 3D scatterplots is presented.