An exploratory study of how abundant display space may support data analysis

Søren Knudsen; Mikkel Rønne Jakobsen; Kasper Anders Søren Hornbæk

doi:10.1145/2399016.2399102

An exploratory study of how abundant display space may support data analysis

Søren Knudsen, Mikkel Rønne Jakobsen, Kasper Anders Søren Hornbæk

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

Large, high-resolution displays offer new opportunities for visualizing and interacting with data. However, interaction techniques for such displays mostly support window manipulation and pointing, ignoring many activities involved in data analysis. We report on 11 workshops with data analysts from various fields, including artistic photography, phone log analysis, astrophysics, and health care policy. Analysts were asked to walk through recent tasks using actual data on a large whiteboard, imagining it to be a large display. From the resulting comments and a video analysis of behavior in the workshops, we generate ideas for new interaction techniques for large displays. These ideas include supporting sequences of visualizations with backtracking and fluid exploration of alternatives; using distance to the display to change visualizations; and fixing variables and data sets on the display or relative to the user.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design
Number of pages	10
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2012
Pages	558-567
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-1482-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2399016.2399102
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design - Copenhagen, Denmark Duration: 14 Oct 2012 → 17 Oct 2012 Conference number: 7

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Conference	7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design
Number	7
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Copenhagen
Period	14/10/2012 → 17/10/2012

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An exploratory study of how abundant display space may support data analysis. / Knudsen, Søren; Jakobsen, Mikkel Rønne; Hornbæk, Kasper Anders Søren.

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Knudsen, S, Jakobsen, MR & Hornbæk, KAS 2012, An exploratory study of how abundant display space may support data analysis. in Proceedings of the 7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 558-567, 7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design , Copenhagen, Denmark, 14/10/2012. https://doi.org/10.1145/2399016.2399102

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