Interactive Poster: Towards an XML Toolkit for a Software Repository Supporting Information Visualization Education and Research
Jason Baumgartner, Katy Börner · 2002
Motivation Many information visualizations (IVs) are highly interactive and dynamic. In order to design effective information visualizations, theoretical knowledge on human perception as well as available approaches, techniques and their evaluation is essential. In addition, practical skills are needed to select appropriate algorithms, interaction metaphors, and visual designs that best fit a user group, their tasks, and their data. A number of excellent IV textbooks have been published recently by Card et al. (1999), Chen (1999), Ware (2000), Spence (2000), and Dodge & Kitchin (2000). However, 2-dimensional printouts on paper often cannot convey the true visual appearance and interactive performance of IVs. While several textbooks come with accompanying web sites containing screen-sized snapshots of user interfaces as well as animations and movies, none of them facilitates the exploration, application, evaluation, and comparison of algorithms. XML Toolkit