Graphical Histories for Visualization: Supporting Analysis, Communication, and Evaluation
- 24 October 2008
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
- Vol. 14 (6), 1189-1196
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2008.137
Abstract
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 userspsila history logs and how they have been applied to study usage patterns in Tableau.Keywords
This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
- Show Me: Automatic Presentation for Visual AnalysisIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2007
- A History Mechanism for Visual Data MiningPublished by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) ,2005
- The eyes have it: a task by data type taxonomy for information visualizationsPublished by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) ,2002
- Visualizing histories for selective undo and redoPublished by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) ,2002
- An architecture for retaining and analyzing visual explorations of databasesPublished by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) ,2002
- Polaris: a system for query, analysis, and visualization of multidimensional relational databasesIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2002
- Enhancing data exploration with a branching history of user operationsKnowledge-Based Systems, 2001
- Navigable history: a reader's view of writer's timeNew Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 2000
- The design of history mechanisms and their use in collaborative educational simulationsPublished by Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) ,1999
- Reusable hierarchical command objectsPublished by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ,1996