Purposeful Visualization

Author

Bai, Xiaoyan ; White, David ; Sundaram, David

Author_Institution

Bus. Sch., Dept. of Inf. Syst. & Oper. Manage., Univ. of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

fYear

2011

fDate

4-7 Jan. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

10

Abstract

In spite of rapid and many advances in the field of visualizations there are still fundamental problems that beset it. We propose the concept of purposeful visualization (PV) as a means of addressing the key problems by highlighting the importance of purpose and context when we consider, design, use, and evaluate visualizations. PVs fulfill a particular purpose for one or more stakeholders within a certain context. The key objectives of our research were to explore and understand purposeful and beautiful visualizations, formalize a definition of such purposeful visualizations that will enable us to explore this concept further, design and implement a system to explore, analyze and evaluate PVs and finally propose a taxonomy and a model of PVs to support the design and evaluation of PVs.

Keywords

data visualisation; information systems; information visualization; purposeful visualization; Context; Data analysis; Data visualization; Prototypes; Seminars; Taxonomy; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences (HICSS), 2011 44th Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kauai, HI

ISSN

1530-1605

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9618-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2011.353

Filename

5718471