A Visualization Authoring Model for Post-WIMP Interfaces
This addresses a domain-specific issue for designers, developers, or users of Post-WIMP visualization systems, but it is incremental as it extends an existing model.
The paper tackles the problem of visualization authoring being decoupled from usage in Post-WIMP interfaces like multi-display or immersive analytics environments, which hinders understanding of design choices, and presents an extended model that supports a more seamless approach to developing and utilizing visualizations.
Besides the ability to utilize visualizations, the process of creating and authoring them is of equal importance. However, for visualization environments beyond the desktop, like multi-display or immersive analytics environments, this process is often decoupled from the place where the visualization is actually used. This separation makes it hard for authors, developers, or users of such systems to understand, what consequences different choices they made will have for the created visualizations. We present an extended visualization authoring model for Post-WIMP interfaces, which support designers by a more seamless approach of developing and utilizing visualizations. With it, our emphasis is on the iterative nature of creating and configuring visualizations, the existence of multiple views in the same system, and requirements for the data analysis process.