Interaction Taxonomy for Tracking of User Actions in Visual Analytics Applications
Interaction Taxonomy for Tracking of User Actions in Visual Analytics Applications
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用于跟踪可视化分析应用程序中的用户操作的交互分类法
DOI：
10.1007/978-1-4614-7485-2_26
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2014
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D. Fellner
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T. V. Landesberger;S. Fiebig;S. Bremm;Arjan Kuijper;D. Fellner
在各种应用领域（社会科学、交通运输或医学）中，分析人员需要从大量数据中获取知识。这种分析通常由结合了自动分析和交互式可视化的交互式可视化分析工具支持。这样的数据分析过程不是流线型的，而是由几个步骤和反馈循环组成的。为了能够优化工艺，识别问题，或共同的解决问题的策略，需要记录和再现这一过程。这可以通过跟踪根据交互分类进行分类的用户操作来实现。可视化分析包括几种交互手段，根据三个领域进行区分：信息可视化、推理和数据处理。然而，目前在这三个领域中只存在单独的交互技术分类法。每种分类法只涵盖了可视化分析中执行的部分操作。此外，由于它们使用不同的基础（用户意图vs.用户行为）和使用不同的术语，因此不清楚它们在多大程度上重叠并覆盖整个可视化分析交互空间。因此，我们首先对它们进行比较，然后在可视化分析的背景下详细阐述一个新的集成分类法。为了显示新分类法的可用性，我们将其指定为可视化图分析，并将其应用于该领域的用户交互跟踪。
In various application areas (social science, transportation, or medicine) analysts need to gain knowledge from large amounts of data. This analysis is often supported by interactive Visual Analytics tools that combine automatic analysis with interactive visualization. Such a data analysis process is not streamlined, but consists of several steps and feedback loops. In order to be able to optimize the process, identify problems, or common problem solving strategies, recording and reproducibility of this process is needed. This is facilitated by tracking of user actions categorized according to a taxonomy of interactions.Visual Analytics includes several means of interaction that are differentiated according to three fields: information visualization, reasoning, and data processing. At present, however, only separate taxonomies for interaction techniques exist in these three fields. Each taxonomy covers only a part of the actions undertaken in Visual Analytics. Moreover, as they use different foundations (user intentions vs. user actions) and employ different terminology, it is not clear to what extent they overlap and cover the whole Visual Analytics interaction space. We therefore first compare them and then elaborate a new integrated taxonomy in the context of Visual Analytics.In order to show the usability of the new taxonomy, we specify it on visual graph analysis and apply it to the tracking of user interactions in this area.