GRASPARC-A problem solving environment integrating computation and visualization

Brodlie, Ken; Poon, Andrew; Wright, Helen; Brankin, L.; Banecki, G.; Gay, A.

doi:10.1109/visual.1993.398857

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“…To design our history tools, we first conducted a design space analysis to enumerate these decisions. We surveyed prior work spanning general history mechanisms [2,8,9,23,29] and interface designs in the areas of graphical design tools [8,16,17,22,26], web browsing [1,5,12,14,15,30], and visualization and simulation [3,4,6,10,11,13,18,19,20,24,25]. In this section, we outline the design space of history tools using examples from this body of work.…”

Section: Design Space Analysis Of Interaction Historiesmentioning

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Graphical Histories for Visualization: Supporting Analysis, Communication, and Evaluation

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Mackinlay

Stolte

et al. 2008

IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

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Abstract-Interactive history tools, ranging from basic undo and redo to branching timelines of user actions, facilitate iterative forms of interaction. In this paper, we investigate the design of history mechanisms for information visualization. We present a design space analysis of both architectural and interface issues, identifying design decisions and associated trade-offs. Based on this analysis, we contribute a design study of graphical history tools for Tableau, a database visualization system. These tools record and visualize interaction histories, support data analysis and communication of findings, and contribute novel mechanisms for presenting, managing, and exporting histories. Furthermore, we have analyzed aggregated collections of history sessions to evaluate Tableau usage. We describe additional tools for analyzing users' history logs and how they have been applied to study usage patterns in Tableau.Index Terms-Visualization, history, undo, analysis, presentation, evaluation. INTRODUCTIONWhen investigating data with visualizations, users regularly traverse the space of views in an iterative fashion. Exploratory analysis may result in a number of hypotheses, leading to multiple rounds of question-answering. Analysts can generate unexpected questions that may be investigated immediately or revisited later. After conducting analysis, users may need to review, summarize, and communicate their findings, often in the form of reports or presentations. By surfacing users' interaction history, we can facilitate analysis and communication. History mechanisms such as undo or "timetravel" enable revisitation in a variety of applications (e.g., [1-4, 6, 8, 12-14, 16-20, 22, 24-26]). As noted by Shneiderman [27], such history tools can play an important part in the visualization process, supporting iterative analysis by enabling users to review, retrieve, and revisit visualization states. Moreover, history tools can help users create reports or presentations, facilitating communication.Interaction histories can also benefit research and development. History log analysis of both individual and aggregate usage can identify common usage patterns and thereby assist usability evaluation. Researchers can also study interaction patterns to better understand and model analysts' sense-making process [13].However, the best history mechanisms for achieving these benefits are not always clear. Designers of visualization tools must consider a large design space of potential features and system architectures when designing history tools. These design decisions entail trade-offs in the types of history representations and operations that can be provided.For example, while it is easy to log low-level input events such as key presses and mouse clicks [25], users can more readily take advantage of semantically meaningful models. Many operations might be performed on an interaction history, including editing, aggregation, bookmarking, annotation, and search. Architecture and interface design need to account for such operations. ...

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Section: Design Space Analysis Of Interaction Historiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Graphical Histories for Visualization: Supporting Analysis, Communication, and Evaluation

Heer

Mackinlay

Stolte

et al. 2008

IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

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“…Provenance has also been investigated in other areas. In their pioneering work on the GRASPARC system, Broadlie et al [4] proposed the use of a history mechanism that allowed scientists to steer an ongoing simulation by backtracking a few steps, changing parameters, and resuming execution.…”

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Managing Rapidly-Evolving Scientific Workflows

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract.We give an overview of VisTrails, a system that provides an infrastructure for systematically capturing detailed provenance and streamlining the data exploration process. A key feature that sets VisTrails apart from previous visualization and scientific workflow systems is a novel action-based mechanism that uniformly captures provenance for data products and workflows used to generate these products. This mechanism not only ensures reproducibility of results, but it also simplifies data exploration by allowing scientists to easily navigate through the space of workflows and parameter settings for an exploration task.

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“…Historique (History) : garder un historique des actions afin d'autoriser et corriger les erreurs (undo), rejouer et raffinement progressif. Par exemple le système GRASPARC (Brodlie et al, 1993) qui construit un arbre d'historique au fil des différentes interactions.…”

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Création et évaluation d’interfaces visuelles interactives à partir de services web

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2012

Revue d'intelligence artificielle

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RÉSUMÉ. Cet article présente une architecture logicielle basée sur les services web et permettant la création et l'évaluation d'applications visuelles interactives. Les services web sont une standardisation d'échange de données dans un système distribué, tel que le web. Ils servent principalement à la publication de données (au moyen d'API) stockées dans des bases de données, mais peuvent également servir au traitement de celles-ci. Nous montrons que leur composition permet la création de représentations visuelles de données, en reconstituant le modèle de réfé-rence de celles-ci. Les visualisations ainsi générées peuvent être rendues interactives une fois couplées avec un programme interactif (tel qu'un navigateur web), afin de permettre à l'utilisateur de réaliser des tâches d'exploration et d'analyse visuelle de données. Nous présentons une interface de composition de services et l'application à la visualisation de graphes et de nuages de mots. Enfin nous montrons comment l'usage des logs générés côté serveur permet la représentation et l'évaluation de l'activité de l'utilisateur.ABSTRACT. This paper presents a software architecture, based on web services, that enables the creation and evaluation of interactive visual applications. Web services are a standard for data exchange in a distributed system, such as the web. They are mainly used for data publishing (via API), but can also be used for data processing. We show that web services composition permits the creation of data visualization, by reconstructing the reference model. Generated visualizations can be made interactive once coupled with a program (such as a web browser) to let the user perform visual exploration and data analysis tasks. We also present a service composition interface, and applications to graph and word cloud visualization. Finally, we show how generated server-side logs allow the representation and evaluation of users' activity.MOTS-CLÉS : interfaces visuelles, visualisation d'information, services web, évaluation.

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GRASPARC-A problem solving environment integrating computation and visualization

Cited by 59 publications

References 10 publications

Graphical Histories for Visualization: Supporting Analysis, Communication, and Evaluation

Graphical Histories for Visualization: Supporting Analysis, Communication, and Evaluation

Managing Rapidly-Evolving Scientific Workflows

Création et évaluation d’interfaces visuelles interactives à partir de services web

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