Rooney, C, Beecham, R orcid.org/0000-0001-8563-7251, Dykes, J et al. (1 more author) (Accepted: 2017) Dynamic Design Documents for supporting applied visualization. In: IEEE VIS 2017, 01-06 Oct 2017, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Abstract
A common characteristic of applied visualization is collaboration between visualization researcher and domain expert – where the visualization researcher attempts to assimilate sufficient detail around data, task and requirements to design a visualization tool that is manifestly useful. We report on a method for enabling such a collaboration that can be used throughout the design process to gather and develop requirements and continually evaluate and support iterative design. We do so using highly interactive web-pages that we term dynamic design documents. Applied during a four-year visual data analysis project for crime research, these documents enabled a series of data mappings to be explored by our collaborators (crime analysts) remotely – in a flexible and continuous way. We argue that they engendered a level of engagement that is qualitatively distinct from more traditional methods of feedback elicitation, offered a solution to limited and intermittent contact between analyst and visualization researcher and speculate that they provided a means of partially addressing certain intractable deficiencies, such as social desirability-bias, that are common to evaluation in applied data visualization.
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Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) > Centre for Spatial Analysis & Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 20 Sep 2018 12:31 |
Last Modified: | 20 Sep 2018 14:44 |
Status: | Published |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:135951 |