Paper Info
Title
TouchViz: a case study comparing two interfaces for data analytics on tablets
Abstract
As more applications move from the desktop to touch devices like tablets, designers must wrestle with the costs of porting a design with as little revision of the UI as possible from one device to the other, or of optimizing the interaction per device. We consider the tradeoffs between two versions of a UI for working with data on a touch tablet. One interface is based on using the conventional desktop metaphor (WIMP) with a control panel, push buttons, and checkboxes -- where the mouse click is effectively replaced by a finger tap. The other interface (which we call FLUID) eliminates the control panel and focuses touch actions on the data visualization itself. We describe our design process and evaluation of each interface. We discuss the significantly better task performance and preference for the FLUID interface, in particular how touch design may challenge certain assumptions about the performance benefits of WIMP interfaces that do not hold on touch devices, such as the superiority of gestural vs. control panel based interaction.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2470654.2481318
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
touch device,wimp interface,better task performance,touch design,conventional desktop metaphor,touch action,data analytics,design process,case study,control panel,fluid interface,touch tablet,data visualization,human factors
Data visualization,Data analysis,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Desktop metaphor,Porting,Design process,Multimedia,User studies,WIMP
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
41
1.12
16
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
steven m drucker12399286.15
Danyel Fisher21913120.44
Ramik Sadana31084.87
Jessica Herron4411.12
M. C. Schraefel5116085.15