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Investigating Direct Manipulation of Graphical Encodings as a Method for User Interaction

Investigating Direct Manipulation of Graphical Encodings as a Method for User Interaction

Authors :
Alex Endert
Bahador Saket
Charles Perin
Samuel Huron
Georgia Institute of Technology [Atlanta]
Sociologie Information-Communication Design (SID)
Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation (I3, une unité mixte de recherche CNRS (UMR 9217))
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Télécom ParisTech-MINES ParisTech - École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris
Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Télécom ParisTech-MINES ParisTech - École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris
Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)
Télécom ParisTech
Département Sciences Economiques et Sociales (SES)
University of Victoria [Canada] (UVIC)
Source :
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, In press
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
arXiv, 2019.

Abstract

International audience; We investigate direct manipulation of graphical encodings as a method for interacting with visualizations. There is an increasing interest in developing visualization tools that enable users to perform operations by directly manipulating graphical encodings rather than external widgets such as checkboxes and sliders. Designers of such tools must decide which direct manipulation operations should be supported, and identify how each operation can be invoked. However, we lack empirical guidelines for how people convey their intended operations using direct manipulation of graphical encodings. We address this issue by conducting a qualitative study that examines how participants perform 15 operations using direct manipulation of standard graphical encodings. From this study, we 1) identify a list of strategies people employ to perform each operation, 2) observe commonalities in strategies across operations, and 3) derive implications to help designers leverage direct manipulation of graphical encoding as a method for user interaction.

Details

ISSN :
10772626
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, In press
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....0bff24be5a6779daf1666b81c2a41565
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1908.00679