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Changing the View: Towards the Theory of Visualisation Comprehension

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Mark M. Shovman,

Andrea Szymkowiak,

James L. Bown,

Kenneth C. Scott-BrownAuthors Info & Claims

IV '09: Proceedings of the 2009 13th International Conference Information Visualisation

Pages 135 - 138

https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2009.78

Published: 15 July 2009 Publication History

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The core problem of the evaluation of Information Visualisation is that the end product of visualisation – the comprehension of the information from the data – is difficult to measure objectively. This paper outlines a description of visualisation comprehension based on two existing theories of perception: Principles of Perceptual Organisation and the Reverse Hierarchy Theory. The resulting account of the processes involved in visualisation comprehension enables evaluation that is not only objective, but also non-comparative, providing an absolute efficiency classification. Finally, as a sample application of this approach, an experiment studying the benefits of interactivity in 3D scatterplots is presented.

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Shovman MBown JSzymkowiak AScott-Brown KBegole BKim JInkpen KWoo W(2015)Twist and LearnProceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2702123.2702201(313-316)Online publication date: 18-Apr-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2702123.2702201
Bown JFee KSampson AShovman MFalconer RGoltsov AIssacs JRobertson PScott-Brown KSzymkowiak A(2010)Information visualization and the arts-science-social science interfaceProceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia10.1145/1963564.1963566(9-17)Online publication date: 27-Dec-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1963564.1963566

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IV '09: Proceedings of the 2009 13th International Conference Information Visualisation

July 2009

662 pages

ISBN:9780769537337

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Published: 15 July 2009

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Shovman MBown JSzymkowiak AScott-Brown KBegole BKim JInkpen KWoo W(2015)Twist and LearnProceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2702123.2702201(313-316)Online publication date: 18-Apr-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2702123.2702201
Bown JFee KSampson AShovman MFalconer RGoltsov AIssacs JRobertson PScott-Brown KSzymkowiak A(2010)Information visualization and the arts-science-social science interfaceProceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia10.1145/1963564.1963566(9-17)Online publication date: 27-Dec-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1963564.1963566

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