The DeepTree Exhibit: Visualizing the Tree of Life to Facilitate Informal Learning

Block, Florian; Horn, Michael; Phillips, Brenda C.; Diamond, Judy; Evans, E. Margaret; Shen, Chia

doi:10.1109/tvcg.2012.272

Cited by 63 publications

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“…The value of visualization has been discussed in a wide range of work-related and, more recently, "casual" contexts [37], including storytelling [40], personal analytics and self-monitoring [8], [14], or public installations [4], [13]. We argue that in particular these, but likely also other visualization contexts, will benefit from a deeper understanding of how people experience and interpret visualizations and how insights and discoveries derive.…”

Section: Revealing Experiences and Interpretation Processesmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Application areas of information visualization no longer just focus on the support of analytical tasks of domain experts, but include everyday, casual scenarios [37], ranging from personal reminiscing [43], [44], storytelling [40], browsing for personal interest or edutainment [4], [13], [45], to community-driven urban scenarios [3]. Studies that investigate people's experiences with visualizations from a qualitative point of view, are important to deepen our understanding of the role of visualization in society, to inform design, and to inspire new research questions.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Elicitation Interview Technique: Capturing People's Experiences of Data Representations

Hogan

Hinrichs

Hornecker

2016

IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

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Abstract-Information visualization has become a popular tool to facilitate sense-making, discovery and communication in a large range of professional and casual contexts. However, evaluating visualizations is still a challenge. In particular, we lack techniques to help understand how visualizations are experienced by people. In this paper we discuss the potential of the Elicitation Interview technique to be applied in the context of visualization. The Elicitation Interview is a method for gathering detailed and precise accounts of human experience. We argue that it can be applied to help understand how people experience and interpret visualizations as part of exploration and data analysis processes. We describe the key characteristics of this interview technique and present a study we conducted to exemplify how it can be applied to evaluate data representations. Our study illustrates the types of insights this technique can bring to the fore, for example, evidence for deep interpretation of visual representations and the formation of interpretations and stories beyond the represented data. We discuss general visualization evaluation scenarios where the Elicitation Interview technique may be beneficial and specify what needs to be considered when applying this technique in a visualization context specifically.

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Section: Revealing Experiences and Interpretation Processesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Elicitation Interview Technique: Capturing People's Experiences of Data Representations

Hogan

Hinrichs

Hornecker

2016

IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

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“…We introduce these as characteristics of a design space that applies to research on literary collections specifically, but also to humanities research at large. This space differs from related application contexts that have previously been discussed in the visualization research community, such as casual or artistic scenarios [33], libraries [46], museums [3,21], or journalism [5] by drawing from and expanding recent digital humanities discussions that seek to address critically the potential of information visualization in their research [13,16,17,25,27]. We posit four dimensions that characterize this space-the audience, research approaches within the humanities (quantitative analysis vs. interpretation), the role of visualization (result vs. process), and considerations on material and visual aspects of the source material.…”

Section: Visualization In the Humanities: The Design Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although digital humanities projects typically welcome public outreach, we know of no case study in the context of literary research where both public and academic audiences have been explicitly considered. Similarly, while case studies in information visualization have shown their suitability for casual, public audiences (e.g., [3,21,46]) on the one hand and for domain experts on the other (e.g., [5,18], to name a few), few address simultaneously a range of expert and casual audiences (see [18,29] for rare examples).…”

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Speculative Practices: Utilizing InfoVis to Explore Untapped Literary Collections

Hinrichs

Forlini

Moynihan

2016

IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

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Abstract-In this paper we exemplify how information visualization supports speculative thinking, hypotheses testing, and preliminary interpretation processes as part of literary research. While InfoVis has become a buzz topic in the digital humanities, skepticism remains about how effectively it integrates into and expands on traditional humanities research approaches. From an InfoVis perspective, we lack case studies that show the specific design challenges that make literary studies and humanities research at large a unique application area for information visualization. We examine these questions through our case study of the Speculative W@nderverse, a visualization tool that was designed to enable the analysis and exploration of an untapped literary collection consisting of thousands of science fiction short stories. We present the results of two empirical studies that involved general-interest readers and literary scholars who used the evolving visualization prototype as part of their research for over a year. Our findings suggest a design space for visualizing literary collections that is defined by (1) their academic and public relevance, (2) the tension between qualitative vs. quantitative methods of interpretation, (3) result-vs. process-driven approaches to InfoVis, and (4) the unique material and visual qualities of cultural collections. Through the Speculative W@nderverse we demonstrate how visualization can bridge these sometimes contradictory perspectives by cultivating curiosity and providing entry points into literary collections while, at the same time, supporting multiple aspects of humanities research processes.

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“…Most relevant to our work are: PhyloGenie [43]-a tabletop interface for collaborative learning of phylogeny. Involv [24] and DeepTree [11] are tabletop interfaces for exploring the Encyclopedia of Life that are aimed at informal science learning settings. G-nome Surfer is a tabletop interface for collaborative exploration of genomic information [44,45,46].…”

Section: Reality-based Interfaces For Scientific Discovery and Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

MoClo planner: Interactive visualization for Modular Cloning bio-design

Shaer

Valdes

Liu

et al. 2013

2013 IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis)

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MoClo Planner is an interactive visualization system for collaborative bio-design, utilizing a multi-touch interactive surface. The system integrates the information gathering, design, and specification of complex synthetic biological constructs using the Modular Cloning (MoClo) assembly method. Modular Cloning is a hierarchical DNA construction method that allows for the assembly of multi-part constructs from a library of biological parts in a one-pot reaction. This cutting-edge method facilitates and expedites the assembly of complex biological designs. However, it is an intricate multi-step process, which to date, has not been adequately supported by existing bio-design tools. Novel visual tools are needed in order to make MoClo more tractable and accessible to a broad range of users, to facilitate a less error prone bio-design process, and to improve workflow. MoClo Planner is a result of a participatory and user-centered design process, which included close collaboration with domain experts. Using multi-touch interactions and a rich graphical interface, the system accelerates the MoClo learning process, and reduces design time and errors. In this paper, we present user requirements and describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of MoClo Planner.

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The DeepTree Exhibit: Visualizing the Tree of Life to Facilitate Informal Learning

Cited by 63 publications

References 26 publications

The Elicitation Interview Technique: Capturing People's Experiences of Data Representations

The Elicitation Interview Technique: Capturing People's Experiences of Data Representations

Speculative Practices: Utilizing InfoVis to Explore Untapped Literary Collections

MoClo planner: Interactive visualization for Modular Cloning bio-design

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