A Problem Space for Designing Visualizations
Abstract
Visualization researchers and visualization professionals seek appropriate abstractions of visualization requirements that permit considering visualization solutions independently from specific problems. Abstractions can help us design, analyze, organize, and evaluate the things we create. The literature has many task structures (taxonomies, typologies, etc.), design spaces, and related ``frameworks'' that provide abstractions of the problems a visualization is meant to address. In this viewpoint, we introduce a different one, a problem space that complements existing frameworks by focusing on the needs that a visualization is meant to solve. We believe it provides a valuable conceptual tool for designing and discussing visualizations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2303.06257,
title = {A Problem Space for Designing Visualizations},
author = {Michael Gleicher and Maria Riveiro and Tatiana von Landesberger and Oliver Deussen and Remco Chang and Christina Gillman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.06257},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
Author's submitted version. An article with the same content was approved for publication by the Visualization Viewpoints Department of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications magazine