Evaluating Information Visualizations

Carpendale, Sheelagh

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-70956-5_2

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“…Usability testing methodology varies from an expert walkthrough to task-based system evaluations. Novice and domain expert participants are generally recruited from academic settings for quasi-experimental testing in laboratories (Rivadneira & Bederson, 2003;Plaisant, 2004;Carpendale, 2008). Librarians have participated in some visualization studies to solicit their feedback from an information retrieval perspective.…”

Section: Information Visualizationmentioning

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Issues in User-Centered Design in LIS

Bowler¹,

Koshman²,

Oh³

et al. 2011

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The purpose of this article is to survey the landscape of user-centered design in LIS. We begin the article by exploring the history of the "user-centered paradigm," looking first at the historical schism between behavioral science and computer science, and then surveying some of the methods of user-centered design. In the next section we present examples of technological artifacts that reflect the basic functions of information systems-artifacts designed to collect, organize, and retrieve information-as a way to present some of the difficulties and opportunities that surround the creations of user-centered design. Specifically, we look at how user-centered design relates to personal collections, social bookmarking, finding aids, Web interface design, information architecture, visualization systems, and personalization and adaptive search. The article then steps back and looks at design through the wider lens of values, asking the question, how are users represented (or misrepresented) through cultural, ethical, and political forces that influence information system design? The article concludes with a summary of the major issues to emerge from our survey of the current state of user-centered design and from this we extract some key lessons vis à vis research and teaching in LIS.

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Section: Information Visualizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Issues in User-Centered Design in LIS

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Koshman²,

Oh³

et al. 2011

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“…Such studies can range from those that evaluate low-level perceptual aspects of a particular visualization technique or component using simple detail-oriented tasks, to the evaluation of complete information visualization systems using complex high-level tasks [4]. Quantitative measures such as time to task completion, error rates, and accuracy are commonly measured.…”

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“…The use of laboratory studies is promoted in most papers on the topic of evaluating information visualization systems [1,4,7,21,23,25,26,34]. In general, problems with such studies include the fact that they are time consuming, expensive, and difficult to design [7,34], and that participants are observed for a short period of time [23].…”

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“…A further critique of laboratory studies is that they focus on the abilities of novice users to quickly learn and use the system under investigation [34]. Since the design of laboratory studies is outside of the scope of this paper, we refer the reader to Andrews [1], Carpendale [4], and Ellis & Dix [7] for practical advice regarding the evaluation of information visualization systems in a laboratory setting.…”

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“…This work builds upon the research by others on the topic of evaluating information visualization systems [1,4,7,16,23,25,26,29,34]. We present a cross-section of evaluation methods available for researchers to validate their designs for visual Web search interfaces.…”

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2009

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In recent years, numerous visual Web search interfaces have been developed in the research community. However, the user evaluations of these interfaces have been performed using a wide range of methods, making it difficult to compare and verify the relative value of the proposed advancements. In this paper, we survey these evaluation methods, and propose a stepped evaluation and refinement model for the systematic study and enhancement of visual Web search interfaces. We suggest that this stepped model can be generalized to support the evaluation of other information visualization systems that target exploratory or knowledge-centric domains.

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Evaluating Information Visualizations

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References 42 publications

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