Constructing and Evaluating Visualisation Task Classifications: Process and Considerations

• Published in: Computer graphics forum Vol. 36; no. 3; pp. 47 - 59
• Main Authors: Kerracher, N., Kennedy, J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2017
• Subjects: Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS); Classification; Design analysis; H.5.2 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: User Interfaces—Evaluation/methodology, Theory and methods; Literature reviews; Taxonomy; Threat evaluation; Visualization; Vocabularies & taxonomies

Categorising tasks is a common pursuit in the visualisation research community, with a wide variety of taxonomies, typologies, design spaces, and frameworks having been developed over the last three decades. While these classifications are universally purported to be useful in both the design and ev...