Rule-based visual mappings - with a case study on poetry visualization

  • Authors:
  • A. Abdul-Rahman;J. Lein;K. Coles;E. Maguire;M. Meyer;M. Wynne;C. R. Johnson;A. Trefethen;M. Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Oxford;University of Utah;University of Utah;University of Oxford;University of Utah;University of Oxford;University of Utah;University of Oxford;University of Oxford

  • Venue:
  • EuroVis '13 Proceedings of the 15th Eurographics Conference on Visualization
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a user-centered design study on poetry visualization. We develop a rule-based solution to address the conflicting needs for maintaining the flexibility of visualizing a large set of poetic variables and for reducing the tedium and cognitive load in interacting with the visual mapping control panel. We adopt Munzner's nested design model to maintain high-level interactions with the end users in a closed loop. In addition, we examine three design options for alleviating the difficulty in visualizing poems latitudinally. We present several example uses of poetry visualization in scholarly research on poetry.