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 …

Numerous sets of usability heuristics have been designed for specific domains, as traditional
heuristics do not evaluate the specific features of particular applications. A substantial …

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 …

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 …

Heuristics evaluation is frequently employed to evaluate usability. While general heuristics
are suitable to evaluate most user interfaces, there is still a need to establish heuristics for …

The design and development of information dashboards are not trivial. Several factors must
be accounted; from the data to be displayed to the audience that will use the dashboard …

It has been widely suggested that a key goal of visualization systems is to assist decision
making, but is this true? We conduct a critical investigation on whether the activity of …