User Interfaces for Information Visualization

User Interfaces for Information Visualization

Abstract

Human perceptual skills are remarkable, but largely under utilized by current graphical user interfaces. The next generation of animated GUIs and visual data mining tools can provide users with remarkable capabilities if designers follow the "Visual Information-Seeking Mantra": Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand.

Then dynamic queries allow user control of widgets, such as sliders and buttons that update the result set within 100 msec. Seven types of information visualizations (1-, 2-, 3-, multi-dimensional data, temporal, tree and network data). Demos include multi-dimensional data in dynamic scattergrams (), geographic presentations in dynamic choropleth maps, and time series data applied to financial and genomic data.

Examples of hierarchical data presentations include treemaps for stock market data (), production monitoring/product catalogs (), and Census data.