Legends as a Device for Interacting with Visualizations

Authors

Mihail E. Tudoreanu, Washington University in St Louis
Eileen Kraemer, Washington University in St. Louis

Document Type

Technical Report

Department

Computer Science and Engineering

Publication Date

2001-01-01

Filename

WUCS-01-44.PDF

Technical Report Number

WUCS-01-44

Abstract

Users and developers of visualization tools must deal with the problem of specifying what information to show and how to represent it. Typically, the user's focus of interest will change over time, and the specifications must change with the user's interests. Techniques for the simple, direct, and intuitive creation and refinement of these specifications can be useful. In this paper we show how legends, a natural element of graphical displays, may be used as a direct and unobstrusive interaction device through which users may interactively specify new visualizations and animations.

Comments

Permanent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7936/K78050VT

Recommended Citation

Tudoreanu, Mihail E. and Kraemer, Eileen, "Legends as a Device for Interacting with Visualizations" Report Number: WUCS-01-44 (2001). All Computer Science and Engineering Research.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cse_research/278