[4eyes] Reading Group tomorrow

[Panuakdet Suwannatat]

Dear Four-Eyes-ers (or Four-Eyers? or Four-Eye'ers?),

Let's discuss the following paper at our reading group this Friday at 11
AM. This paper is about comparing different existing
visualization/presentation styles among different disciplines. I find it
very existing.

:)
- Mock


*Different Strokes for Different Folks: Visual Presentation Design Between
Disciplines*
*IEEE InfoVis*, 2012
Steven R. Gomez, Radu Jianu, Caroline Ziemkiewicz, Hua Guo, and David H.
Laidlaw

http://cs.brown.edu/~steveg/pubs/Gomez-2012-DSD.pdf

Abstract :
We present an ethnographic study of design differences in visual
presentations between academic disciplines. Characterizing design
conventions between users and data domains is an important step in
developing hypotheses, tools, and design guidelines for information
visualization. In this paper, disciplines are compared at a coarse scale
between four groups of fields: social, natural, and formal sciences; and
the humanities. Two commonplace presentation types were analyzed:
electronic slideshows and whiteboard chalk talks. We found design
differences in slideshows using two methods: coding and comparing
manually-selected features, like charts and diagrams, and an image-based
analysis using PCA called eigenslides. In whiteboard talks with controlled
topics, we observed design behaviors, including using representations and
formalisms from a participant's own discipline, that suggest authors might
benefit from novel assistive tools for designing presentations. Based on
these findings, we discuss opportunities for visualization ethnography and
human-centered authoring tools for visual information.
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