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Showtime: increasing viewer understanding of animated data structures

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posted on 2023-05-24, 10:15 authored by Shannon, R, Quigley, AJ, Nixon, PA
Visualisations of dynamic networks are animated over time, reflecting changes in the underlying data structure. As viewers of these visualisations, 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 put a strain on the observer’s perceptions, with changes in layout and visual population disrupting their internalised mental model of the visualisation, making it difficult to understand what the changes represent. We present Showtime, a novel visualisation technique which dilates the flow of time so that observers have proportionally more time to understand each change based on the density of activity in the visualisation. This is paired with a novel timeline element which tracks the flow of time visually.

History

Publication title

AVI '10 Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces

Editors

G Santucci

Pagination

377-381

ISBN

978-1-4503-0076-6

Department/School

School of Information and Communication Technology

Publisher

ACM Press

Place of publication

New York, USA

Event title

AVI 2010: Advanced Visual Interfaces

Event Venue

Roma, Italy

Date of Event (Start Date)

2010-05-26

Date of Event (End Date)

2010-05-28

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Expanding knowledge in the information and computing sciences

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