Building Highly-Coordinated Visualizations in Improvise

  • Authors:
  • Chris Weaver

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Venue:
  • INFOVIS '04 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Improvise is a fully-implemented system in which users build and browse multiview visualizations interactively using a simple shared-object coordination mechanism coupled with a flexible, expression-based visual abstraction language. By coupling visual abstraction with coordination, users gain precise control over how navigation and selection in a visualization affects the appearance of data in individual views. As a result, it is practical to build visualizations with more views and richer coordination in Improvise than in other visualization systems. Building and browsing activities are integrated in a single, live user interface that lets users alter visualizations quickly and incrementally during data exploration.