A comparative approach to enhance information interaction design of visual analytics systems

Communication Design Quarterly May 2014

A comparative approach to enhance information interaction design of visual analytics systems

Zhenyu Cheryl Qian ; Yingjie Victor Chen ; Yinghuan Patty Peng

Abstract

This paper introduces a novel comparative strategy to access, synthesize, and redesign a mobile visual analytics (VA) system. Designing, evaluating, and improving VA tools are challenging because of the exploratory and unpredicted nature of their users' analysis activities in a real context. Often the system development approach is running rounds of iteration based on one or a few design ideas and related references. Inspired by ideation and design selection from design-thinking literature, we start to redesign systems from comparison and filtering based on a broad range of design ideas. This approach focuses on the information interaction design of systems; integrates design principles from information design, sensorial design, and interaction design as guidelines; compares VA systems at the component level; and seeks unique and adaptive design solutions. The Visual Analytics Benchmark Repository provides a rich collection of the Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) challenges submission reports and videos. For each challenge design problem, there are multiple creative and mature design solutions. Based on this resource, we conducted a series of empirical user studies to understand the user experience by comparing different design solutions, enhanced one visual analytics system design MobileAnalymator by synthesizing new features and removing redundant functions, and accessed the redesign outcomes with the same comparative approach.

Journal: Communication Design Quarterly
Published: 2014-05-01
DOI: 10.1145/2644448.2644455
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Topics: multimodality technical communication

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