Transmogrification: causal manipulation of visualizations

  • Authors:
  • John Brosz;Miguel A. Nacenta;Richard Pusch;Sheelagh Carpendale;Christophe Hurter

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada;University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom;University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada;University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada;ENAC, Toulouse, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

A transmogrifier is a novel interface that enables quick, on-the-fly graphic transformations. A region of a graphic can be specified by a shape and transformed into a destination shape with real-time, visual feedback. Both origin and destination shapes can be circles, quadrilaterals or arbitrary shapes defined through touch. Transmogrifiers are flexible, fast and simple to create and invite use in casual InfoVis scenarios, opening the door to alternative ways of exploring and displaying existing visualizations (e.g., rectifying routes or rivers in maps), and enabling free-form prototyping of new visualizations (e.g., lenses).