An Operator Interaction Framework for Visualization Systems

  • Authors:
  • Ed Huai-hsin Chi;John Riedl

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • INFOVIS '98 Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Information visualization encounters a wide variety of different data domains. The visualization community has developed representation methods and interactive techniques. As a community, we have realized that the requirements in each domain are often dramatically different. In order to easily apply existing methods, researchers have developed a semiology of graphic representations. We have extended this research into a framework that includes operators and interactions in visualization systems, such as a visualization spreadsheet. We discuss properties of this framework and use it to characterize operations spanning a variety of different visualization techniques. The framework developed in this paper enables a new way of exploring and evaluating the design space of visualization operators, and helps end--users in their analysis tasks.