Publications in Scientific Journals:
M. Pohl, M. Smuc, E. Mayr:
"The User Puzzle - Explaining the Interaction with Visual Analytics Systems";
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics,
18
(2012),
12;
2908
- 2916.
English abstract:
Visual analytics emphasizes the interplay between visualization, analytical procedures performed by computers and
human perceptual and cognitive activities. Human reasoning is an important element in this context. There are several theories in
psychology and HCI explaining open-ended and exploratory reasoning. Five of these theories (sensemaking theories, gestalt
theories, distributed cognition, graph comprehension theories and skill-rule-knowledge models) are described in this paper. We
discuss their relevance for visual analytics. In order to do this more systematically, we developed a schema of categories relevant
for visual analytics research and evaluation. All these theories have strengths but also weaknesses in explaining interaction with
visual analytics systems. A possibility to overcome the weaknesses would be to combine two or more of these theories
Keywords:
Cognitive theory, visual knowledge discovery, interaction design, reasoning, problem solving
"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2012.273
Electronic version of the publication:
http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_215209.pdf
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