Authors
Ben Shneiderman
Publication date
2003/1/1
Book
The craft of information visualization
Pages
364-371
Publisher
Morgan Kaufmann
Description
A useful starting point for designing advanced graphical user interfaces is the Visual Information-Seeking Mantra: overview first, zoom and filter, then details on demand. But this is only a starting point in trying to understand the rich and varied set of information visualizations that have been proposed in recent years. This paper offers a task by data type taxonomy with seven data types (one-, two-, three-dimensional data, temporal and multi-dimensional data, and tree and network data) and seven tasks (overview, zoom, filter, details-on-demand, relate, history, and extracts).
Everything points to the conclusion that the phrase ‘the language of art’ is more than a loose metaphor, that even to describe the visible world in images we need a developed system of schemata.
E. H. Gombrich Art and Illusion, 1959 (p. 76)
Total citations
Scholar articles
B Shneiderman - The craft of information visualization, 2003
B Sneiderman - Proceedings IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, 1996
