Presented to my information visualisation students on 27 April 2015

1. Evaluation
of information visualisation
20 April 2015
Erik Duval
Dept. Computerwetenschappen, KULeuven
http://erikduval.wordpress.com & @ErikDuval
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2. State-of-the-art
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• controlled experiment comparing design elements
• widgets, mapping to graphic
• usability evaluation
• controlled experiments comparing several tools
• case studies
• least common
• natural environment
• real tasks
• time consuming
• difficult to replicate and generalize
• also: re-design
C. Plaisant. The challenge of information visualization evaluation. In Proceedings of AVI0
working conference on Advanced visual interfaces, pages 109–116. ACM, 2004.

3. Comparing visualisations
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https://infovislvm.wordpress.com

4. Case Study
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T. Nagel, M. Maitan, E. Duval, A. Vande Moere, J. Klerkx, K. Kloeckl, and C. Ratti.
Touching transport - a case study on visualizing metropolitan public transit on interactive
tabletops. In AVI2014: 12th ACM International Working Conference on Advanced Visual
Interfaces, pages 281–288, 2014.
slide 27…
http://www.slideshare.net/tillnagel/touching-transport-a-case-study-on-visualizing-metropolitan-public-transit-on-interactive-tabletops

5. Re-design as evaluation
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https://medium.com/@hint_fm/design-and-redesign-4ab77206cf9

6. Beware: perfect hindsight!
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7. Re-design as evaluation
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https://medium.com/@hint_fm/design-and-redesign-4ab77206cf9

8. Re-design as evaluation
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2004_US_elections_map_electoral_votes.png

9. Re-design as evaluation
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https://medium.com/@hint_fm/design-and-redesign-4ab77206cf9

10. Re-design as evaluation
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https://medium.com/@hint_fm/design-and-redesign-4ab77206cf9

11. • F.
Viégas
and
M.
Wa/enberg,
Design
and
Redesign
in
Data
Visualiza0on,
h/ps://medium.com/@hint_fm/design-­‐and-­‐
redesign-­‐4ab77206cf9
• C.
Plaisant.
The
challenge
of
informa0on
visualiza0on
evalua0on.
In
Proceedings
of
AVI04:
working
conference
on
Advanced
visual
interfaces,
pages
109–116.
ACM,
2004.
• T.
Nagel,
M.
Maitan,
E.
Duval,
A.
Vande
Moere,
J.
Klerkx,
K.
Kloeckl,
and
C.
RaY.
Touching
transport
-­‐
a
case
study
on
visualizing
metropolitan
public
transit
on
interac0ve
tabletops.
In
AVI2014:
12th
ACM
InternaZonal
Working
Conference
on
Advanced
Visual
Interfaces,
pages
281–288,
2014.
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12. ?
@ErikDuval
h/p://erikduval.wordpress.com
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