Using Concrete Scales: A Practical Framework for Effective Visual Depiction of Complex Measures
Using Concrete Scales: A Practical Framework for Effective Visual Depiction of Complex Measures
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DOI：
10.1109/tvcg.2013.210
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发表时间：
2013-12
影响因子：
5.2
通讯作者：
Fanny Chevalier;Romain Vuillemot;G. Gali
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作者：
Fanny Chevalier;Romain Vuillemot;G. Gali
从财务统计到营养价值，我们经常接触到以极端规模或不熟悉的单位表示的量化信息，或者两者兼而有之。理解这种复杂的度量的一种常见做法是通过使用更容易掌握的大小和单位的视觉描述来联系、重新表达和比较它们。通过这种练习，我们创建了一种新的图形构图，我们将其称为混凝土比例。就我们所知，目前还没有针对具体规模的设计指南，尽管它们在交流、教育和决策环境中普遍使用。我们试图通过引入一个新的框架来填补这一空白，该框架将作为他们分析和设计的实践指南。通过对涉及复杂测量的图形构图的深入分析和对尺度认知机制的广泛文献回顾，我们的框架概述了各种测量关系的设计空间--特别是涉及将复杂测量重新表达为更熟悉的概念的关系--以及它们作为图形构图的视觉表示。
From financial statistics to nutritional values, we are frequently exposed to quantitative information expressed in measures of either extreme magnitudes or unfamiliar units, or both. A common practice used to comprehend such complex measures is to relate, re-express, and compare them through visual depictions using magnitudes and units that are easier to grasp. Through this practice, we create a new graphic composition that we refer to as a concrete scale. To the best of our knowledge, there are no design guidelines that exist for concrete scales despite their common use in communication, educational, and decision-making settings. We attempt to fill this void by introducing a novel framework that would serve as a practical guide for their analysis and design. Informed by a thorough analysis of graphic compositions involving complex measures and an extensive literature review of scale cognition mechanisms, our framework outlines the design space of various measure relations-specifically relations involving the re-expression of complex measures to more familiar concepts-and their visual representations as graphic compositions.