Experiences in involving analysts in visualisation design

  • Authors:
  • Aidan Slingsby;Jason Dykes

  • Affiliations:
  • City University London, London, UK;City University London, London, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2012 BELIV Workshop: Beyond Time and Errors - Novel Evaluation Methods for Visualization
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Involving analysts in visualisation design has obvious benefits, but the knowledge-gap between domain experts ('analysts') and visualisation designers ('designers') often makes the degree of their involvement fall short of that aspired. By promoting a culture of mutual learning, understanding and contribution between both analysts and designers from the outset, participants can be raised to a level at which all can usefully contribute to both requirement definition and design. We describe the process we use to do this for tightly-scoped and short design exercises -- with meetings/workshops, iterative bursts of design/prototyping over relatively short periods of time, and workplace-based evaluation -- illustrating this with examples of our own experience from recent work with bird ecologists.