[4eyes] Reading Group tomorrow

[Chris Sweeney]

Reading group in 10 mins!

Chris


On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Panuakdet Suwannatat <mock at cs.ucsb.edu>wrote:

> 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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