Design studies are an increasingly popular form of problem-driven visualization research,
yet there is little guidance available about how to do them effectively. In this paper we reflect …

We present an assessment of the state and historic development of evaluation practices as
reported in papers published at the IEEE Visualization conference. Our goal is to reflect on a …

Learn How to Design Effective Visualization SystemsVisualization Analysis and Design
provides a systematic, comprehensive framework for thinking about visualization in terms of …

We take a new, scenario-based look at evaluation in information visualization. Our seven
scenarios, evaluating visual data analysis and reasoning, evaluating user performance …

We present a nested model for the visualization design and validation with four layers:
characterize the task and data in the vocabulary of the problem domain, abstract into …

Visualization is the process of representing data, information, and knowledge in a visual
form to support the tasks of exploration, confirmation, presentation, and understanding. This …

With the ever-increasing amount of data, the world has stepped into the era of “Big Data”.
Presently, the analysis of massive and complex data and the extraction of relevant …

Information visualization research is becoming more established, and as a result, it is
becoming increasingly important that research in this field is validated. With the general …

Despite typically receiving little emphasis in visualization research, interaction in
visualization is the catalyst for the user's dialogue with the data, and, ultimately, the user's …

Visual analytics employs interactive visualizations to integrate users' knowledge and
inference capability into numerical/algorithmic data analysis processes. It is an active …