Sizing up visualizations: effects of display size in focus+context, overview+detail, and zooming interfaces
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Sizing up visualizations : effects of display size in focus+context, overview+detail, and zooming interfaces. / Jakobsen, Mikkel Rønne; Hornbæk, Kasper.
The 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: conference proceedings and extended abstracts. Association for Computing Machinery, 2011. p. 1451-1460 .Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Sizing up visualizations
T2 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
AU - Jakobsen, Mikkel Rønne
AU - Hornbæk, Kasper
N1 - Conference code: 29
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Whereas the literature is clear on the benefits of large displays and visualizations, little is known about their combination, that is, how display size affect the usability of visualizations. We describe a controlled experiment where 19 participants used focus+context, overview+detail, and zooming techniques with varying display sizes (13.8, 1.5, and 0.17 megapixels). Participants navigated geographical maps to find specific locations, compare items, and follow routes. Results show that for multi-scale navigation, classic interactive visualization techniques did not benefit from being scaled to a large display: In contrast to the literature we find similar performance on medium and large displays. Across display sizes, overview+detail works the best, in particular for comparing items. Focus+context is relatively more difficult to use at a small display size. We explain these findings and discuss the design of interactive visualization techniques for large displays.
AB - Whereas the literature is clear on the benefits of large displays and visualizations, little is known about their combination, that is, how display size affect the usability of visualizations. We describe a controlled experiment where 19 participants used focus+context, overview+detail, and zooming techniques with varying display sizes (13.8, 1.5, and 0.17 megapixels). Participants navigated geographical maps to find specific locations, compare items, and follow routes. Results show that for multi-scale navigation, classic interactive visualization techniques did not benefit from being scaled to a large display: In contrast to the literature we find similar performance on medium and large displays. Across display sizes, overview+detail works the best, in particular for comparing items. Focus+context is relatively more difficult to use at a small display size. We explain these findings and discuss the design of interactive visualization techniques for large displays.
U2 - 10.1145/1978942.1979156
DO - 10.1145/1978942.1979156
M3 - Article in proceedings
SN - 978-1-4503-0228-9
SP - 1451
EP - 1460
BT - The 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 7 May 2011 through 12 May 2011
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