Finding Your Way in Chronoland: Visual Metaphors for Orientation of Temporal Data Explorers
Eva Mayr, Hanna Risku, Michael Smuc, Florian Windhager · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2009
With their deeper procedural knowledge, experts are superior to beginners in solving ill-defined problems.To support beginners, we suggest using a method for presenting complex, heterogeneous data that can serve as a good basis for visualizing its inherent information.To demonstrate this approach, we conducted focus group interviews with temporal data analysts to identify their problem solving strategies.To make the results usable as a scaffold for beginners in the domain, we designed a visualization based on a metaphor of the flow of time and water -Chronoland.By providing a landscape-like decision support system, experts and beginners alike are assisted on their path towards a problem's solution.