Designing Animated Transitions to Convey Aggregate Operations

dc.contributor.authorKim, Younghoonen_US
dc.contributor.authorCorrell, Michaelen_US
dc.contributor.authorHeer, Jeffreyen_US
dc.contributor.editorGleicher, Michael and Viola, Ivan and Leitte, Heikeen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-02T18:28:36Z
dc.date.available2019-06-02T18:28:36Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractData can be aggregated in many ways before being visualized in charts, profoundly affecting what a chart conveys. Despite this importance, the type of aggregation is often communicated only via axis titles. In this paper, we investigate the use of animation to disambiguate different types of aggregation and communicate the meaning of aggregate operations. We present design rationales for animated transitions depicting aggregate operations and present the results of an experiment assessing the impact of these different transitions on identification tasks. We find that judiciously staged animated transitions can improve subjects' accuracy at identifying the aggregation performed, though sometimes with longer response times than with static transitions. Through an analysis of participants' rankings and qualitative responses, we find a consistent preference for animation over static transitions and highlight visual features subjects report relying on to make their judgments. We conclude by extending our animation designs to more complex charts of aggregated data such as box plots and bootstrapped confidence intervals.en_US
dc.description.number3
dc.description.sectionheadersInteraction Techniques for Scalability
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forum
dc.description.volume38
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.13709
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659
dc.identifier.pages541-551
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13709
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.1111/cgf13709
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectHuman
dc.subjectcentered computing
dc.subjectVisualization design and evaluation methods
dc.subjectInformation visualization
dc.titleDesigning Animated Transitions to Convey Aggregate Operationsen_US
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