ViCo: A Metric for the Complexity of Information Visualizations

  • Authors:
  • Johannes Gärtner;Silvia Miksch;Stefan Carl-McGrath

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • DIAGRAMS '02 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Diagrammatic Representation and Inference
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Information Visualization produces a visual representation of abstract data in order to facilitate a deeper level of understanding of the data under investigation. This paper introduces ViCo, a metric for assessing Information Visualization complexity. The proposed metric allows for the measurement of Information Visualization complexity with respect to tasks and users. The algorithm for developing such a metric for any chosen collection of visualizations is described in general and then applied to two examples for purposes of illustration.