Paper Info
Title
The Effectiveness of Interactive Visualization Techniques for Time Navigation of Dynamic Graphs on Large Displays
Abstract
Dynamic networks can be challenging to analyze visually, especially if they span a large time range during which new nodes and edges can appear and disappear. Although it is straightforward to provide interfaces for visualization that represent multiple states of the network (i.e., multiple timeslices) either simultaneously (e.g., through small multiples) or interactively (e.g., through interactive animation), these interfaces might not support tasks in which disjoint timeslices need to be compared. Since these tasks are key for understanding the dynamic aspects of the network, understanding which interactive visualizations best support these tasks is important. We present the results of a series of laboratory experiments comparing two traditional approaches (small multiples and interactive animation), with a more recent approach based on interactive timeslicing. The tasks were performed on a large display through a touch interface. Participants completed 24 trials of three tasks with all techniques. The results show that interactive timeslicing brings benefit when comparing distant points in time, but less benefits when analyzing contiguous intervals of time.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/TVCG.2020.3030446
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Dynamic networks,Information visualization,Large displays
Journal
27
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1077-2626
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
37
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexandra Lee162.07
Daniel Archambault270539.10
Miguel A. Nacenta368635.25