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Toward flexible visual analytics augmented through smooth display transitions

Toward flexible visual analytics augmented through smooth display transitions
Visual Informatics
https://doi.org/

Christian Tominski, Gennady Andrienko, Natalia Andrienko, Susanne Bleisch, Sara Irina Fabrikant, Eva Mayr, Silvia Miksch, Margit Pohl, André Skupin

Abstract

Visualizing big and complex multivariate data is challenging. To address this challenge, we propose flexible visual analytics (FVA) with the aim to mitigate visual complexity and interaction complexity challenges in visual analytics, while maintaining the strengths of multiple perspectives on the studied data. At the heart of our proposed approach are transitions that fluidly transform data between user-relevant views to offer various perspectives and insights into the data. While smooth display transitions have been already proposed, there has not yet been an interdisciplinary discussion to systematically conceptualize and formalize these ideas. As a call to further action, we argue that future research is necessary to develop a conceptual framework for flexible visual analytics. We discuss preliminary ideas for prioritizing multi-aspect visual representations and multi-aspect transitions between them, and consider the display user for whom such depictions are produced and made available for visual analytics. With this contribution we aim to further facilitate visual analytics on complex data sets for varying data exploration tasks and purposes based on different user characteristics and data use contexts.

Workshop report of the Schloss Dagstuhl Seminar 19192
"Visual Analytics for Sets over Time and Space"

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visinf.2021.06.004

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