The Week in Vis 09 (Mon, Oct 29 – Fri, Nov 2): Interaction

by Mike Gleicher on October 26, 2018

Class Meetings
  • Mon, Oct 29 – No Class
  • Wed, Oct 31 – Lecture:Interaction
  • Fri, Nov 2 – ICE:Glyph Design (Paris Apartments)
Week Deadlines

Remember, this week we’re on the odd schedule with no class on Monday (October 29th), but classes on Wednesday and Friday.

Last week, we spent the whole week on Color. This week, we’ll move on to talk about interaction. It’s something that’s better to experience than to talk about, so we’ll look at examples. For the ICE, we’ll do a design problem that will help us thinking about how to combine different encodings.

You may want to look at this week’s learning goals Learning Goals 9: Week 9 – Interaction.

Readings (due Mon, Oct 29 – preferably before class)

The first reading is a survey paper that provides a good way to organize many of the interactions we see in visualization, and provides lots of good examples.

  1. Heer, J., & Shneiderman, B. (2012). Interactive dynamics for visual analysis. Communications of the ACM, 55(4), 45. (pdf) (doi)
  2. Maniplate View (Chapter 11 from Munzner’s Visualization Analysis & Design) (Munzner-11-ManipulateView.pdf 0.5mb)
  3. Facet into Multiple Views (Chapter 12 from Munzner’s Visualization Analysis & Design) (Munzner-12-FacetMultipleViews.pdf 1.0mb)This isn’t specific to interaction, but it fits better here than anywhere else.

Optional

I’ll use this paper to frame the discussion in class. It provides a good “why not add interaction” point of view.

  • Lam, H. (2008). A Framework of Interaction Costs in Information Visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 14(6), 1149–1156. (doi). (pdf link to Heidi’s page)

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