In software visualization, but also in information visualization in general, there is a great need for evaluation of visualization metaphors. To reduce the amount of empirical studies a omputational approach has been applied successfully, e.g., to graph visualization. It is based on measurable aesthetic heuristics that are used to estimate the human perception and the processing of visualizations. This paper lays a foundation for adopting this approach to any field of information visualization by providing a method, the repertory grid technique, to identify aesthetics that are measurable, metaphor-specific, and relevant to the user in a structured and repeatable way. We identified
25 unique aesthetics and revealed that the visual appearance of the investigated visualizations is mainly influenced by the package structure whereby methods are underrepresented. These findings were used to improve existing visualizations.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa.de:bsz:15-qucosa-175905 |
| Date | 04 August 2015 |
| Creators | Baum, David |
| Contributors | Universität Leipzig, Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, University of West Bohemia, Computer Science Dept. |
| Publisher | Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | doc-type:bookPart |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Short papers proceedings / WSCG\'2015 - 23rd International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision\'2015 / ed. by Vaclav Skala. - Plzen 2015. - S. 65 - 74. - ISBN 978-80-86943-66-4 |
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