The design space of construction tools for information visualization: A survey

Information visualization has been widely used to convey information from data and assist communication. There are enormous needs of efficient visualization design for users from diverse fields to leverage the power of data. As a result, emerging construction tools for information visualization focu...

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Published inJournal of visual languages and computing Vol. 44; pp. 120 - 132
Main Authors Mei, Honghui, Ma, Yuxin, Wei, Yating, Chen, Wei
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 01.02.2018
Subjects
Design space
Information visualization
Interaction
Toolkits
User interfaces
Visualization construction tools
Design space
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Visualization construction tools
Toolkits
Information visualization
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Interaction
User interfaces
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ISSN1045-926X
1095-8533
DOI10.1016/j.jvlc.2017.10.001

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Summary:Information visualization has been widely used to convey information from data and assist communication. There are enormous needs of efficient visualization design for users from diverse fields to leverage the power of data. As a result, emerging construction tools for information visualization focus on providing solutions with different aspects including expressiveness, accessibility, and efficiency. In this paper, we review existing works on declarative specifications and user interfaces for visualization construction. By summarizing their methods for producing information visualizations and efforts on improving usability, we express the design patterns in terms of a design space which describes the tools in several different aspects. We discuss how the design space can be applied to support further exploration of potential research topics in the future.
ISSN:1045-926X
1095-8533
DOI:10.1016/j.jvlc.2017.10.001