Towards a smooth design process for static communicative node-link diagrams

• Published in: Computer graphics forum Vol. 34; no. 3; pp. 461 - 470
• Main Authors: Spritzer, Andre Suslik, Boy, Jeremy, Dragicevic, Pierre, Fekete, Jean-Daniel, Dal Sasso Freitas, Carla Maria
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2015; Wiley
• Series: EuroVis 2015 - Conference Proceedings
• Subjects: Analysis; Breaking down; Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS); Computer programs; Computer Science; Flexibility; Graph theory; H.5.2 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: User Interfaces-Graphical user interfaces (GUI); Human-Computer Interaction; Image processing systems; Information; Messages; Studies; Visual; Visualization; Workflow
• ISSN: 0167-7055; 1467-8659
• DOI: 10.1111/cgf.12658

Node‐link infographics are visually very rich and can communicate messages effectively, but can be very difficult to create, often involving a painstaking and artisanal process. In this paper we present an investigation of node‐link visualizations for communication and how to better support their cr...