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conference contribution
posted on 2024-09-17, 02:01 authored by R 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.

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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

UN Sustainable Development Goals

3 Good Health and Well Being

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