A User-centered Approach for Optimizing Information Visualizations
This work addresses the time-consuming and expensive process of optimizing visualizations for users, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing optimization approaches.
The paper tackled the problem of optimizing information visualizations by proposing a user-centered design approach to improve readability, comprehensibility, and user satisfaction, resulting in an efficient method to find a local optimum.
The optimization of information visualizations is time consuming and expensive. To reduce this we propose an improvement of existing optimization approaches based on user-centered design, focusing on readability, comprehensibility, and user satisfaction as optimization goals. The changes comprise (1) a separate optimization of user interface and representation, (2) a fully automated evaluation of the representation, and (3) qualitative user studies for simultaneously creating and evaluating interface variants. On the basis of these results we are able to find a local optimum of an information visualization in an efficient way.