Constructive Visualization: A New Paradigm to Empower People to Author Visualization
Samuel Huron, Alice Thudt, Bon Adriel Aseniero, Anthony Tang, and Sheelagh Carpendale. (2016). Constructive Visualization: A New Paradigm to Empower People to Author Visualization. In SURFNET / Designing Digital Surface Applications, Frank Maurer (ed.). NSERC Surfnet, University of Calgary, 169–191.
Abstract
In this chapter, with my collaborators, I provide a pictorial overview of two papers that address these challenges (Huron, Jansen, and Carpendale 2014; Huron, Carpendale, et al. 2014). In these paper we defne construction as a design paradigm for non-experts to author simple and dynamic visualizations. This paradigm is inspired by well-established theories in developmental psychological as well as past and existing practices of authoring visualization with tangible elements. We describe the simple conceptual components and processes underlying this paradigm and a preliminary study we employed to assess it. The results of this study confrm that non-experts in InfoVis can create, update, and annotate a visualization in a short period of time. Moreover, this study allowed us to articulate a primary model of how people perform the authoring of visual mappings using this paradigm.
Materials
PDF File (http://hcitang.org/papers/2016-surfnet-constructive-visualization.pdf)
URL (http://dspace.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/50450)
BibTeX
@incollection{huron2016constructivevis,
author = {Huron, Samuel and Thudt, Alice and Aseniero, Bon Adriel and Tang, Anthony and Carpendale, Sheelagh},
title = {Constructive Visualization: A New Paradigm to Empower People to Author Visualization},
booktitle = {SURFNET / Designing Digital Surface Applications},
editor = {Maurer, Frank},
publisher = {NSERC Surfnet, University of Calgary},
url = {http://dspace.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/50450},
pdfurl = {http://hcitang.org/papers/2016-surfnet-constructive-visualization.pdf},
year = {2016},
pages = {169-191},
chapter = {9},
isbn = {978-0-88953-388-2}
}