Graphical Histories for Visualization: Supporting Analysis, Communication, and Evaluation
Graphical Histories for Visualization: Supporting Analysis, Communication, and Evaluation
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DOI：
10.1109/tvcg.2008.137
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发表时间：
2008-11-01
影响因子：
5.2
通讯作者：
Agrawala, Maneesh
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作者：
Heer, Jeffrey;Mackinlay, Jock D.;Agrawala, Maneesh
交互式历史工具，从基本的撤销和重做到用户操作的分支时间线，促进了交互的迭代形式。本文研究了信息可视化的历史机制设计。我们对架构和接口问题进行了设计空间分析，确定了设计决策和相关的权衡。在此基础上，我们对数据库可视化系统Tableau的图形历史工具进行了设计研究。这些工具记录和可视化交互历史，支持数据分析和发现的交流，并提供用于表示、管理和导出历史的新机制。此外，我们还分析了历史会话的聚合集合，以评估Tableau的使用情况。我们描述了用于分析用户历史日志的其他工具，以及如何将它们应用于研究Tableau中的使用模式。
Interactive history tools, ranging from basic undo and redo to branching timelines of user actions, facilitate iterative forms of interaction. In this paper, we investigate the design of history mechanisms for information visualization. We present a design space analysis of both architectural and interface issues, identifying design decisions and associated trade-offs. Based on this analysis, we contribute a design study of graphical history tools for Tableau, a database visualization system. These tools record and visualize interaction histories, support data analysis and communication of findings, and contribute novel mechanisms for presenting, managing, and exporting histories. Furthermore, we have analyzed aggregated collections of history sessions to evaluate Tableau usage. We describe additional tools for analyzing users' history logs and how they have been applied to study usage patterns in Tableau.