What Is Interaction for Data Visualization? Evanthia Dimara, Charles Perin
What is Interaction for Data Visualization? Evanthia Dimara, Charles Perin To cite this version: Evanthia Dimara, Charles Perin. What is Interaction for Data Visualization?. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2020, 26 (1), pp.119 - 129. 10.1109/TVCG.2019.2934283. hal-02197062 HAL Id: hal-02197062 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02197062 Submitted on 30 Jul 2019 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. What is Interaction for Data Visualization? Evanthia Dimara and Charles Perin∗ Abstract—Interaction is fundamental to data visualization, but what “interaction” means in the context of visualization is ambiguous and confusing. We argue that this confusion is due to a lack of consensual definition. To tackle this problem, we start by synthesizing an inclusive view of interaction in the visualization community – including insights from information visualization, visual analytics and scientific visualization, as well as the input of both senior and junior visualization researchers. Once this view takes shape, we look at how interaction is defined in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). By extracting commonalities and differences between the views of interaction in visualization and in HCI, we synthesize a definition of interaction for visualization.
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