Empirical comparison of dynamic query sliders and brushing histograms

Authors:
Qing Li;Chris North
Affiliations:
Center for Human-Computer Interaction, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA;Center for Human-Computer Interaction, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA
Venue:
INFOVIS'03 Proceedings of the Ninth annual IEEE conference on Information visualization
Year:
2003

Citing 13
Cited 7

Dynamic queries for information exploration: an implementation and evaluation

CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Visual information seeking: tight coupling of dynamic query filters with starfield displays

CHI '94 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Data visualization sliders

UIST '94 Proceedings of the 7th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
IVEE: an environment for automatic creation of dynamic queries applications

CHI '95 Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Enhanced dynamic queries via movable filters

CHI '95 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Externalising abstract mathematical models

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Spotfire: an information exploration environment

ACM SIGMOD Record
The attribute explorer

CHI '94 Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Graphical query specification and dynamic result previews for a digital library

Proceedings of the 11th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Parallel bargrams for consumer-based information exploration and choice

Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Dynamic query sliders vs. brushing histograms

CHI '03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Efficient Multi-Object Dynamic Query Histograms

INFOVIS '99 Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization
Dynamic Queries and Brushing on Choropleth Maps

IV '01 Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information Visualisation

The challenge of information visualization evaluation

Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
Home-centric visualization of network traffic for security administration

Proceedings of the 2004 ACM workshop on Visualization and data mining for computer security
Single complex glyphs versus multiple simple glyphs

CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A design framework exploratory geovisualization in epidemiology

Information Visualization
Qualitative analysis of visualization: a building design field study

Proceedings of the 2008 Workshop on BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization
Enabling teachers to explore grade patterns to identify individual needs and promote fairer student assessment

Computers & Education
Time histograms for large, time-dependent data

VISSYM'04 Proceedings of the Sixth Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG conference on Visualization

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Dynamic queries facilitate rapid exploration of information by real-time visual display of both query formulation and results. Dynamic query sliders are linked to the main visualization to filter data. A common alternative to dynamic queries is to link several simple visualizations, such as histograms, to the main visualization with a brushing interaction strategy. Selecting data in the histograms highlights that data in the main visualization. We compare these two approaches in an empirical experiment on DataMaps, a geographic data visualization tool. Dynamic query sliders resulted in better performance for simple range tasks, while brushing histograms was better for complex trend evaluation and attribute relation tasks. Participants preferred brushing histograms for understanding relationships between attributes and the rich information they provided.