Automating the design of graphical presentations of relational information
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Envisioning information
Visual information seeking: tight coupling of dynamic query filters with starfield displays
CHI '94 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Visualizing search results: some alternatives to query-document similarity
SIGIR '96 Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Envision: a user-centered database of computer science literature
Communications of the ACM
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In producing a design to visualize search results for a digital library called Envision [5, 7], we found that choosing graphical devices and document attributes to be encoded with each graphical device is a surprisingly difficult task. By graphical devices we mean those visual display elements (e.g., color, shape, size, position, etc.) used to convey encoded information. Research in several areas provides scientific guidance for design and evaluation of graphical encodings which might otherwise be reduced to opinion and personal taste. However, literature offers inconclusive and often conflicting viewpoints, leading us to further empirical research.