Paper Info
Title
Implicit brushing and target snapping: data exploration and sense-making on large displays
Abstract
During grouping tasks for data exploration and sense-making, the criteria are normally not well-defined. When users are bringing together data objects thought to be similar in some way, implicit brushing continually detects for groups on the freeform workspace, analyzes the groups' text content or metadata, and draws attention to related data by displaying visual hints and animation. This provides helpful tips for further grouping, group meaning refinement and structure discovery. The sense-making process is further enhanced by retrieving relevant information from a database or network during the brushing. Closely related to implicit brushing, target snapping provides a useful means to move a data object to one of its related groups on a large display. Natural dynamics and smooth animations also help to prevent distractions and allow users to concentrate on the grouping and thinking tasks. Two different prototype applications, note grouping for brainstorming and photo browsing, demonstrate the general applicability of the technique.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1145/1133265.1133316
AVI
Keywords
Field
DocType
sense-making process,general applicability,related group,grouping task,large display,data object,different prototype application,data exploration,related data,group meaning refinement,freeform workspace,information visualization,relational data
Metadata,Brainstorming,Data exploration,Information visualization,Computer science,Workspace,Human–computer interaction,Animation,Data objects,Photo browsing,Multimedia
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-59593-353-0
4
0.48
References 
Authors
10
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaohua Sun1924.78
Patrick Chiu219920.38
Jeffrey Huang3243.28
Maribeth Back463695.26
Wolf Polak5231.89