Between aesthetics and utility: designing ambient information visualizations

Skog, Tobias; Ljungblad, Sara; Holmquist, Lars Erik

doi:10.1109/infvis.2003.1249031

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“…Our theory also suggests an additional answer to the questions raised by Skog et al [23]. This ambient visualization of bus schedules inspired by the art of Piet Mondrian was not automatically perceived by passersby as being a visualization at all, but rather was often assumed to be just a piece of digital art.…”

Section: Artistic Visualizationmentioning

confidence: 61%

Embedding Information Visualization within Visual Representation

Ziemkiewicz

Kosara

2009

Advances in Information and Intelligent Systems

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Despite its often technical nature, visualization is in many ways a form of visual representation. Just how visualization relates to illustration, information graphics, digital art, visual languages, etc., is nonetheless poorly understood. We propose a theory that embeds information visualization within other visual traditions in terms of criteria that are not purely technical: dependence on data, mapping, interactivity, and notationality. In addition to providing the means for a classification, these criteria also foster a different understanding of information visualization. We further adapt our criteria to differentiate within visualization, using mapping, readability and information loss, and notationality as the criteria. Both sets of criteria are demonstrated in a number of case studies. We believe that our novel taxonomies of visualization methods serve as a step towards a more comprehensive theoretical context to understanding the essential purposes, properties, and functions of information visualization.

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Section: Artistic Visualizationmentioning

confidence: 61%

Embedding Information Visualization within Visual Representation

Ziemkiewicz

Kosara

2009

Advances in Information and Intelligent Systems

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“…The relationships between objects in the hierarchy are thus clearly observed. Skog et al (2003) developed the concept of blending information into environmental design. The information art expressed in weather forecasts thus resembles a piece by Mondrian.…”

Section: Related Studies and Model Construction 21 Technology Used Imentioning

confidence: 99%

Space Portrait: Establishment of a Lifestyle-Directed Visualized Model for Interior Design

Chen

2015

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering

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Effective interior design service relies on users' needs and the agreements between designers and users; this requires good communication between the two parties. Therefore, establishing an interactive model to record user involvement in the design process, as well as visually analyzing the user's lifestyle and needs, warrants exploration. This study targeted specific interior design cases and the daily lives of users. The research introduces a sphere activity change map that uses information visualization to understand users' daily activities. This model offers a life-model-based information tree as a tool to highlight the space spheres individual family members emphasize. The tool then visualizes the distribution of the average time family members spend in each space sphere.

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“…Peripheral displays (ambient displays) have been studied for providing important but non-emergent information without disturbing user's primary jobs [4]- [7]. Although this concept is expected to be useful for monitoring task, main target of existing systems is data with simple structure, such as stock price [6], weather information [6], [7], and electricity consumption [4].…”

Section: Peripheral Displays and Monitoring Support Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although this concept is expected to be useful for monitoring task, main target of existing systems is data with simple structure, such as stock price [6], weather information [6], [7], and electricity consumption [4].…”

Section: Peripheral Displays and Monitoring Support Systemsmentioning

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Visualization System for Monitoring Bug Update Information

Takama

Kurosawa

2014

IEICE Trans. Inf. & Syst.

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SUMMARYThis paper proposes a visualization system for supporting the task of monitoring bug update information. Recent growth of the Web has brought us various kinds of text stream data, such as bulletin board systems (BBS), blogs, and social networking services (SNS). Bug update information managed by bug tracking systems (BTS) is also a kind of text stream data. As such text stream data continuously generates new data, it is difficult for users to watch it all the time. Therefore, the task of monitoring text stream data inevitably involves breaks of monitoring, which would cause users to lose the context of monitoring. In order to support such a monitoring task involving breaks, the proposed system employs several visualization techniques. The dynamic relationship between bugs is visualized with animation, and a function of highlighting updated bugs as well as that of replaying a part of the last monitoring time is also proposed in order to help a user grasping the context of monitoring. The result of experiment with test participants shows that highlighting and replay functions can reduce frequency of checking data and monitoring time.

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Between aesthetics and utility: designing ambient information visualizations

Cited by 75 publications

References 13 publications

Embedding Information Visualization within Visual Representation

Embedding Information Visualization within Visual Representation

Space Portrait: Establishment of a Lifestyle-Directed Visualized Model for Interior Design

Visualization System for Monitoring Bug Update Information

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