Abstract:Visualization techniques of all sorts suffer from visual cluttering, the occlusion of visual information due to the overlap of graphical items; and from excessive complexity in analytical tasks due to multiple parallel perspectives. To cope with these problems, we introduce Hierarchical Visual Filtering, a novel interaction principle based on pragmatic and epistemic actions. Pragmatic actions here mean that the analyst is able to visually select and filter information, determining visual configurations that re… Show more
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