Paper Info
Title
Complex queries in information visualizations: distributing instruction across documentation and interfaces
Abstract
Successful visual querying requires users to understand what data selection means and how it works in interactive and dynamically linked graphics. Visually selecting data differs from writing query or search statements, and users who are new to visualizations have to learn this new paradigm of querying. A usability study that I conducted provides findings about problems that users encounter in visual selection when analyzing data for a realistic, complex business problem. These problems reveal the program-based support that users need in order to make accurate, complete, and efficient selections. I identify combined improvements in user interfaces and Help that address these problems.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1145/318372.318378
SIGDOC
Keywords
Field
DocType
complex business problem,data selection mean,user interface design,visual selection,human factors,search statement,information visualization,successful visual querying,user testing,program-based support,usability,new paradigm,users encounter,usability study,documentation,efficient selection,visualizations,complex query,user interface
Graphics,User experience design,Computer science,Heuristic evaluation,Usability,Human–computer interaction,Usability inspection,User interface design,Documentation,User interface
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-072-4
3
0.53
References 
Authors
1
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Barbara Mirel115216.94