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conference contribution
posted on 2024-09-17, 02:01authored byR Shannon, A Quigley, PA Nixon
Visualisations of dynamic data change in appearance over time, reflecting changes in the underlying data, be that the development of a social network, or the addition or removal of a device node in an ad-hoc communications network. As viewers of these visualisation tools, it is up to us to accurately perceive and keep up with the constantly shifting view, mentally noting as visual elements are added, removed, changed and rearranged, sometimes at great pace. In a complex data set with a lot happening, this can be a strain on the observer's comprehension, with changes in layout and visual population disrupting their internalised "mental model" of the data, leading to errors in perception. We present Time Sequences, a novel dual visualisation technique which dilates the flow of time in the visualisation so that observers are given proportionally more time to understand changes based on the density of activity in the visualisation.
History
Publication title
CHI 2009 - digital life, new world: conference proceedings and extended abstracts
Volume
91
Pagination
4615-4620
ISBN
978-1-60558-247-4
Department/School
Research Division
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Publication status
Published
Place of publication
New York, New York
Event title
27th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Event Venue
Boston, USA
Date of Event (Start Date)
2009-04-04
Date of Event (End Date)
2009-04-09
Socio-economic Objectives
220499 Information systems, technologies and services not elsewhere classified