DimpVis: Exploring Time-varying Information Visualizations by Direct Manipulation

DimpVis: Exploring Time-varying Information Visualizations by Direct Manipulation. Kondo, B. & Collins, C. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 20(12):2003–2012, December, 2014.
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We introduce a new direct manipulation technique, DimpVis, for interacting with visual items in information visualizations to enable exploration of the time dimension. DimpVis is guided by visual hint paths which indicate how a selected data item changes through the time dimension in a visualization. Temporal navigation is controlled by manipulating any data item along its hint path. All other items are updated to reflect the new time. We demonstrate how the DimpVis technique can be designed to directly manipulate position, colour, and size in familiar visualizations such as bar charts and scatter plots, as a means for temporal navigation. We present results from a comparative evaluation, showing that the DimpVis technique was subjectively preferred and quantitatively competitive with the traditional time slider, and significantly faster than small multiples for a variety of tasks.

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	volume = {20},
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	doi = {10.1109/TVCG.2014.2346250},
	abstract = {We introduce a new direct manipulation technique, DimpVis, for interacting with visual items in information visualizations to enable exploration of the time dimension. DimpVis is guided by visual hint paths which indicate how a selected data item changes through the time dimension in a visualization. Temporal navigation is controlled by manipulating any data item along its hint path. All other items are updated to reflect the new time. We demonstrate how the DimpVis technique can be designed to directly manipulate position, colour, and size in familiar visualizations such as bar charts and scatter plots, as a means for temporal navigation. We present results from a comparative evaluation, showing that the DimpVis technique was subjectively preferred and quantitatively competitive with the traditional time slider, and significantly faster than small multiples for a variety of tasks.},
	number = {12},
	journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
	author = {Kondo, Brittany and Collins, Christopher},
	month = dec,
	year = {2014},
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