We revisit the design space of visualizations aiming at identifying and relating its components. In this sense, we establish a model to examine the process through which visualizations become expressive for users. This model has leaded us to a taxonomy oriented to the human visual perception, a conceptualization that provides natural criteria in order to delineate a novel understanding for the visualization design space. The new organization of concepts that we introduce is our main contribution: a grammar for the visualization design based on the review of former works and of classical and state-of-the-art techniques. Like so, the paper is presented as a survey whose structure introduces a new conceptualization for the space of techniques concerning visual analysis.
@article{arxiv.1505.07804,
title = {The Spatial-Perceptual Design Space: a new comprehension for Data Visualization},
author = {Jose F. Rodrigues and Agma J. M. Traina and Maria C. F. Oliveira and Caetano Traina},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.07804},
year = {2015}
}