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- Publication Type: Bachelor Thesis
- Workgroup(s)/Project(s):
- Date: October 2020
- Date (Start): 26. February 2019
- Date (End): 23. October 2020
- Matrikelnummer: 01612401
- First Supervisor: Hsiang-Yun Wu
Abstract
Understanding and identifying the alternations between different visualisations are cognitively demanding tasks. Distinct visualisations can lead to a different interpretation of data, thus it is important to understand how visualisations correlate with each other and how the insight to the data gained might vary. An approach to achieve the correlation understanding is to introduce animated transitions between different visualisations that allows to precisely follow changes, pursuing the research in the field of animated transitions. In particular, the focus of this research is on animated transitions between commonly used visualisations like bar, doughnut, pie and radial column charts with the addition of implementing them controllable. A controllable animation allows the user to control the animation with a seek-bar like in a video player. This work proposes and implements two new animated transitions, one animation between bar and pie charts and another one for hierarchical bar charts, both utilising other charts as intermediate steps. Expectations are to further improve the effectiveness and graphical perception of animated transitions. Though, a quantitative user study yielded no significant improvements apart from a little effectiveness gain among elder persons.Additional Files and Images
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@bachelorsthesis{pointner_simon-2020,
title = "Controllable Animation for Information Visualisation",
author = "Simon Pointner",
year = "2020",
abstract = "Understanding and identifying the alternations between
different visualisations are cognitively demanding tasks.
Distinct visualisations can lead to a different
interpretation of data, thus it is important to understand
how visualisations correlate with each other and how the
insight to the data gained might vary. An approach to
achieve the correlation understanding is to introduce
animated transitions between different visualisations that
allows to precisely follow changes, pursuing the research in
the field of animated transitions. In particular, the focus
of this research is on animated transitions between commonly
used visualisations like bar, doughnut, pie and radial
column charts with the addition of implementing them
controllable. A controllable animation allows the user to
control the animation with a seek-bar like in a video
player. This work proposes and implements two new animated
transitions, one animation between bar and pie charts and
another one for hierarchical bar charts, both utilising
other charts as intermediate steps. Expectations are to
further improve the effectiveness and graphical perception
of animated transitions. Though, a quantitative user study
yielded no significant improvements apart from a little
effectiveness gain among elder persons.",
month = oct,
address = "Favoritenstrasse 9-11/E193-02, A-1040 Vienna, Austria",
school = "Research Unit of Computer Graphics, Institute of Visual
Computing and Human-Centered Technology, Faculty of
Informatics, TU Wien ",
URL = "https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2020/pointner_simon-2020/",
}