| Preface | p. V |
| List of Contributors | p. VII |
| Introduction to Human-Centered Visualization Environments | p. 1 |
| Fundamental Principles and Methods | |
| Human-Centered Aspects | p. 13 |
| Human-Centered Approach | p. 13 |
| Usability in Human-Centered Design | p. 14 |
| Defining Usability | p. 15 |
| Evaluating Usability | p. 20 |
| Improving Usability | p. 20 |
| Usability and Information Overload | p. 24 |
| User Aims and Requirements | p. 28 |
| Characteristics of Good Visualizations and User Interfaces | p. 29 |
| Essential Elements of Successful Visualization | p. 30 |
| Dimensions in Visualization | p. 31 |
| Steps in Visualization Design | p. 32 |
| The Design Cycle | p. 33 |
| User Analysis | p. 34 |
| User Requirements | p. 42 |
| Task Analysis | p. 43 |
| Task Modeling | p. 48 |
| Designing for and with Users | p. 50 |
| Evaluation of Visualization Environments | p. 52 |
| Human-Centered Evaluation in Visualization Practice | p. 52 |
| Evaluation Methods | p. 56 |
| Designing Experiments | p. 59 |
| Challenges in Evaluation of Collaborative Visualization Environments | p. 64 |
| User Studies and a Science of Visualization | p. 66 |
| Survey of Information Visualization Studies | p. 66 |
| The Future of User Studies | p. 71 |
| Chapter Notes | p. 74 |
| Interacting with Visualizations | p. 77 |
| Interaction | p. 77 |
| Describing Interaction | p. 78 |
| Defining Interaction | p. 83 |
| Influences of Display Technologies | p. 85 |
| Survey of Display Technologies | p. 86 |
| Scales of Interaction | p. 88 |
| Display Interaction Modalities and Media | p. 91 |
| Interfaces and Usability for Novel Displays | p. 97 |
| Display Device Challenges in Visualization | p. 102 |
| Multimodal Interaction | p. 103 |
| Unimodality Versus Multimodality | p. 105 |
| Issues to Deal with in Multimodal Interaction | p. 108 |
| Myths of Multimodality | p. 110 |
| Survey of Enabling Technologies | p. 111 |
| Overview of Approaches to Multimodal Interaction | p. 124 |
| Enabling Multimodal Interaction | p. 131 |
| Visualizations in Multi-party Environments | p. 132 |
| Collaborating with Visualizations | p. 133 |
| Models for Distributed Collaborative Visualization | p. 137 |
| Evaluation Criteria | p. 144 |
| Survey of Collaborative Visualization Systems | p. 146 |
| Challenges for Multi-party Visualizations | p. 159 |
| Chapter Notes | p. 160 |
| Visual Representations | p. 163 |
| Perceptual and Cognitive Issues | p. 164 |
| The Visualization Process | p. 164 |
| Types of Data | p. 165 |
| Preattentive Processing | p. 166 |
| Information Visualization Criteria and Metaphors | p. 170 |
| Information Visualization Criteria | p. 171 |
| Metaphors | p. 173 |
| Multivariate Visualization Techniques | p. 177 |
| Low-Dimensional Data Visualization | p. 177 |
| Multidimensional Data Visualization | p. 180 |
| Usability Issues on Multidimensional Data Visualization | p. 188 |
| Graphs and Trees | p. 189 |
| Applications | p. 190 |
| Background | p. 190 |
| Aesthetics vs. Graph Readability | p. 194 |
| Layout vs. Graph Readability | p. 200 |
| Large Graphs | p. 212 |
| Integrated Graph Drawing | p. 219 |
| Labeling of Graphs | p. 221 |
| Multiple Views | p. 224 |
| Classification | p. 224 |
| The Design of Multiple Views | p. 227 |
| Interaction | p. 228 |
| Comparison with Integrated Views | p. 228 |
| Chapter Notes | p. 229 |
| Challenges and Unsolved Problems | p. 231 |
| Classification of Future Challenges and Unsolved Problems in Human-Centered Visualization | p. 233 |
| Human-Centered Challenges | p. 234 |
| Technical Challenges | p. 243 |
| Financial Challenges | p. 249 |
| Chapter Notes | p. 252 |
| Domain-Specific Visualization | |
| Geographic Visualization | p. 257 |
| Goals of Geovisualization | p. 258 |
| Driving Forces of Geovisualization | p. 259 |
| Cognitive Aspects | p. 261 |
| Visual Thinking | p. 261 |
| Graphic Variables | p. 263 |
| Visualization Methods and Techniques | p. 264 |
| Geospatial Data | p. 264 |
| 2D Cartographic Visualization | p. 265 |
| 3D Cartographic Visualization | p. 267 |
| Visual Data Mining Tools | p. 268 |
| Animation | p. 271 |
| Spatio-Temporal Visualization | p. 273 |
| Interactive User Interfaces | p. 276 |
| Combining Visual and Computational Exploration | p. 280 |
| Geovisualization Tools | p. 283 |
| Usability of Geovisualization Systems | p. 285 |
| Involving Users in the Design of Geovisualizations | p. 286 |
| Results from User Studies | p. 287 |
| Geovisualization to Support Group Work | p. 290 |
| Chapter Notes | p. 293 |
| Algorithm Animation | p. 295 |
| Overview | p. 296 |
| Users of Algorithm Animation | p. 297 |
| Taxonomies for Algorithm Animation Tools | p. 298 |
| Review of Tools and Their Evaluations | p. 301 |
| Concept Keyboards for Algorithm Visualization | p. 301 |
| Matrix and MatrixPro | p. 302 |
| Alvis and Alvis Live! | p. 303 |
| Alice | p. 304 |
| Jeliot 3/Jeliot 2000 | p. 304 |
| JHAVE | p. 306 |
| WinHipe | p. 307 |
| User Studies Compilation | p. 308 |
| Chapter Notes | p. 308 |
| Biomedical Information Visualization | p. 311 |
| Phylogenetic Tree Visualization | p. 312 |
| Small Trees - Working in Euclidean Space | p. 312 |
| Large Trees - Using Focus and Context | p. 314 |
| Very Large Trees - Hyperbolic 3D Space | p. 315 |
| Discussion and Further Reading | p. 316 |
| Sequence Alignment | p. 316 |
| Sequence Logos | p. 317 |
| Editing and Visualizing Sequence Alignment: Jalview | p. 319 |
| Vista: Online Visualization of DNA Alignment | p. 320 |
| Sequence Walkers | p. 321 |
| Dot Plots | p. 322 |
| Arc Diagrams | p. 323 |
| Discussion and Further Reading | p. 324 |
| Biochemical Network Analysis | p. 325 |
| Cytoscape | p. 325 |
| Biochemical Pathway Analysis | p. 326 |
| Layout for Large Biochemical Networks: LGL | p. 329 |
| Discussion and Further Reading | p. 330 |
| Microarray Data Visualization | p. 331 |
| Tree View | p. 331 |
| Hierarchical Clustering Explorer | p. 333 |
| Evaluation of Microarray Visualization Tools | p. 334 |
| Medical Records Visualization | p. 335 |
| LifeLines: Visualizing Patient Temporal Data | p. 336 |
| The Cube: Multidimensional Analysis of Medical Records | p. 336 |
| Visualizing Medical Practice Guidelines and Protocols | p. 338 |
| Chapter Notes | p. 339 |
| Bibliography | p. 343 |
| Author Index | p. 395 |
| Index | p. 397 |
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