Transient visualizations

International audienceMenus are used for exploring and selecting commands in interactive applications. They are widespread in current systems and used by a large variety of users. As a consequence, they have motivated many studies in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Facing the large variety of menus, it is difficult to have a clear understanding of the design possibilities and to ascertain their similarities and differences. In this article, we address a main challenge of menu design: the need to characterize the design space of menus. To do this, we propose a taxonomy of menu properties that structures existing work on visual menus. In order to highlight the impact of the properties on performance, we begin by refining performance through a list of quality criteria and by reviewing existing analytical and empirical methods for quality evaluation. The taxonomy of menu properties is an unavoidable step toward the elaboration of advanced predictive models of menu performance and the optimization of menus. A key point of this work is to focus both on menus and on the properties of menus, to enable a fine-grained analysis in terms of performance

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“…3. Menus are transient [Jackobsen et al 2007]. In transient visualizations, information is temporarily displayed and is easily dismissed.…”

Section: Menu Techniquesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visual Menu Techniques

2016

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“…Another command allows closing that tool-tip and getting back to the original view. This use of transient visualizations is believed to "bring the user into direct and instant involvement with the information representation", use display resources economically, and provide fast access to the information because of its closeness [23]. The drawbacks of this approach are related to its use of an explicit selection of the link that defines the target focus element.…”

Section: Switch On Demandmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bilingual Reading Experiences: What They Could Be and How to Design for Them

Pillias

Cubaud

2015

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2015

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Abstract.We introduce the idea of bilingual reading, where a document comes in two languages and the reader can choose at will on which language to focus during the reading. Between the complete ignorance of a language (where translation is the only option) and bilingualism (where translation is useless), there exists a variety of contexts of partial bilingualism where bilingual reading interfaces would prove highly useful. We first study through interviews and reviews how the bilingual reading experience is understood today. We provide an analysis framework and highlight design challenges for the design of bilingual reading appliances. We then describe a taxonomy of the different approaches available to address these challenges, analyze them in the light of our framework and show how they can be derived to sketch future bilingual reading interfaces.

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“…The transient visualization concept by Jakobsen and Hornbaek [17] relates to our work if we look at the labeling problem from the viewpoint of interaction and information-in-context. Their goal is to visualize information near the user's focus of attention only when needed and without using extra screen space.…”

Section: Labelingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the Placement and Design of Word-Scale Visualizations

Goffin

Willett

Fekete

et al. 2014

IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

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We present an exploration and a design space that characterize the usage and placement of word-scale visualizations within text documents. Word-scale visualizations are a more general version of sparklines--small, word-sized data graphics that allow meta-information to be visually presented in-line with document text. In accordance with Edward Tufte's definition, sparklines are traditionally placed directly before or after words in the text. We describe alternative placements that permit a wider range of word-scale graphics and more flexible integration with text layouts. These alternative placements include positioning visualizations between lines, within additional vertical and horizontal space in the document, and as interactive overlays on top of the text. Each strategy changes the dimensions of the space available to display the visualizations, as well as the degree to which the text must be adjusted or reflowed to accommodate them. We provide an illustrated design space of placement options for word-scale visualizations and identify six important variables that control the placement of the graphics and the level of disruption of the source text. We also contribute a quantitative analysis that highlights the effect of different placements on readability and text disruption. Finally, we use this analysis to propose guidelines to support the design and placement of word-scale visualizations.

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Transient visualizations

Cited by 12 publications

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Visual Menu Techniques

Visual Menu Techniques

Bilingual Reading Experiences: What They Could Be and How to Design for Them

Exploring the Placement and Design of Word-Scale Visualizations

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