Abstract

Interactive history tools, ranging from basic undo and redo to branching timelines of user actions, facilitate iterative forms of interaction. In this paper, we investigate the design of history mechanisms for information visualization. We present a design space analysis of both architectural and interface issues, identifying design decisions and associated trade-offs. Based on this analysis, we contribute a design study of graphical history tools for Tableau, a database visualization system. These tools record and visualize interaction histories, support data analysis and communication of findings, and contribute novel mechanisms for presenting, managing, and exporting histories. Furthermore, we have analyzed aggregated collections of history sessions to evaluate Tableau usage. We describe additional tools for analyzing users' history logs and how they have been applied to study usage patterns in Tableau.

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Computer scienceVisualizationData visualizationGeovisualizationInformation visualizationData scienceHuman–computer interactionComputer graphics (images)Data mining

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Year
2008
Type
article
Volume
14
Issue
6
Pages
1189-1196
Citations
302
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Jeffrey Heer, Jock D. Mackinlay, Christian Stolte et al. (2008). Graphical Histories for Visualization: Supporting Analysis, Communication, and Evaluation. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics , 14 (6) , 1189-1196. https://doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2008.137

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10.1109/tvcg.2008.137