Coping with human errors through system design: implications for ecological interface design
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
Task-analytic approach to the automated design of graphic presentations
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Modular visualization environments: past, present, and future
ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics - Special focus: modular visualization environments (MVEs)
GADGET: goal-oriented application design guidance for modular visualization environments
VIS '97 Proceedings of the 8th conference on Visualization '97
The visualization toolkit (2nd ed.): an object-oriented approach to 3D graphics
The visualization toolkit (2nd ed.): an object-oriented approach to 3D graphics
Cognitive Work Analysis: Towards Safe, Productive, and Healthy Computer-Based Work
Cognitive Work Analysis: Towards Safe, Productive, and Healthy Computer-Based Work
Image based flow visualization
Proceedings of the 29th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A Methodology for Choosing Data Representations
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
A Knowledge-Based System for Visualization Design
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Work domain analysis and sensors II: pasteurizer II case study
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
An architecture for rule-based visualization
VIS '93 Proceedings of the 4th conference on Visualization '93
Ecological interface design: a new approach for visualizing network management
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Interactive Tensor Field Design and Visualization on Surfaces
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
A Model and Framework for Visualization Exploration
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Provenance for Visualizations: Reproducibility and Beyond
Computing in Science and Engineering
VisComplete: Automating Suggestions for Visualization Pipelines
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
VisMashup: Streamlining the Creation of Custom Visualization Applications
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
On Safari in the File Format Jungle—Why Can't You Visualize My Data?
Computing in Science and Engineering
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Visualization is experiencing growing use by a diverse community, with continuing improvements in the availability and usability of systems. In spite of these developments the problem of how first to get the data in has received scant attention: the established approach of pre-defined readers and programming aids has changed little in the last two decades. This paper proposes a novel way of inputting data for scientific visualization that employs rapid interaction and visual feedback in order to understand how the data is stored. The approach draws on ideas from the discipline of ecological interface design to extract and control important parameters describing the data, at the same time harnessing our innate human ability to recognize patterns. Crucially, the emphasis is on file format discovery rather than file format description, so the method can therefore still work when nothing is known initially of how the file was originally written, as is often the case with legacy binary data.