Evaluationof information visualisation

20 April 2015

Erik DuvalDept. Computerwetenschappen, KULeuvenhttp://erikduval.wordpress.com & @ErikDuval

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State-of-the-art

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• controlled experiment comparing design elements • widgets, mapping to graphic

• usability evaluation • controlled experiments comparing several tools • case studies • least common • natural environment • real tasks • time consuming • difficult to replicate and generalize

• also: re-design C. Plaisant. The challenge of information visualization evaluation. In Proceedings of AVI04: working conference on Advanced visual interfaces, pages 109–116. ACM, 2004.

Comparing visualisations

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https://infovislvm.wordpress.com

Case Study

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T. Nagel, M. Maitan, E. Duval, A. Vande Moere, J. Klerkx, K. Kloeckl, and C. Ratti. Touching transport - a case study on visualizing metropolitan public transit on interactive tabletops. In AVI2014: 12th ACM International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, pages 281–288, 2014.

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http://www.slideshare.net/tillnagel/touching-transport-a-case-study-on-visualizing-metropolitan-public-transit-on-interactive-tabletops

Re-design as evaluation

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https://medium.com/@hint_fm/design-and-redesign-4ab77206cf9

Beware: perfect hindsight!

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Re-design as evaluation

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https://medium.com/@hint_fm/design-and-redesign-4ab77206cf9

Re-design as evaluation

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2004_US_elections_map_electoral_votes.png

Re-design as evaluation

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https://medium.com/@hint_fm/design-and-redesign-4ab77206cf9

Re-design as evaluation

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https://medium.com/@hint_fm/design-and-redesign-4ab77206cf9

• F.  Viégas  and  M.  Wa/enberg,  Design  and  Redesign  in  Data  Visualiza0on,  h/ps://medium.com/@hint_fm/design-­‐and-­‐redesign-­‐4ab77206cf9    

• C.  Plaisant.  The  challenge  of  informa0on  visualiza0on  evalua0on.  In  Proceedings  of  AVI04:  working  conference  on  Advanced  visual  interfaces,  pages  109–116.  ACM,  2004.  

• T.  Nagel,  M.  Maitan,  E.  Duval,  A.  Vande  Moere,  J.  Klerkx,  K.  Kloeckl,  and  C.  RaY.  Touching  transport  -­‐  a  case  study  on  visualizing  metropolitan  public  transit  on  interac0ve  tabletops.  In  AVI2014:  12th  ACM  InternaZonal  Working  Conference  on  Advanced  Visual  Interfaces,  pages  281–288,  2014.

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?@ErikDuval  

h/p://erikduval.wordpress.com

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