The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations

  • Authors:
  • Ben Shneiderman

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • VL '96 Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

A useful starting point for designing advanced graphical user interfaces is the Visual Information-Seeking Mantra: overview first, zoom and filter, then details on demand. But this is only a starting point in trying to understand the rich and varied set of information visualizations that have been proposed in recent years. This paper offers a task by data type taxonomy with seven data types (one-, two-, three-dimensional data, temporal and multi-dimensional data, and tree and network data) and seven tasks (overview, zoom, filter, details-on-demand, relate, history, and extracts).