Expressiveness - Revision history

Iwolf at 15:08, 24 February 2009

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	{{Quotation \|'''Expressiveness''' criteria identify graphical languages that express the desired information. […] A set of facts is expressible in a language if it contains a sentence that (1) encodes all the facts in the set, (2) encodes only the facts in the set.\|[Mackinlay, 1986]}}		{{Quotation \|'''Expressiveness''' criteria identify graphical languages that express the desired information. […] A set of facts is expressible in a language if it contains a sentence that (1) encodes all the facts in the set, (2) encodes only the facts in the set.\|[Mackinlay, 1986]}}

	{{Quotation \| A visualization is said to be expressive if and only if it encodes all the data relations intended and no other data relations.\|[Card, ~~2007~~, p. 523]}}		{{Quotation \| A visualization is said to be expressive if and only if it encodes all the data relations intended and no other data relations.\|[Card, 2008, p. 523]}}


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	== References ==		== References ==
	*[Card, ~~2007~~] Stuart Card, Information visualization, in A. Sears and J.A. Jacko (eds.), The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc, 2007.		*[Card, 2008] Stuart Card, Information visualization, in A. Sears and J.A. Jacko (eds.), The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc, 2007.
	*[Mackinlay 1986] Jock Mackinlay. Automating the Design of Graphical Presentations of Relational Information. ''ACM Transactions on Graphics'', 5(2):110-141, 1986.		*[Mackinlay 1986] Jock Mackinlay. Automating the Design of Graphical Presentations of Relational Information. ''ACM Transactions on Graphics'', 5(2):110-141, 1986.
	*[Norman, 1993] Norman, Donald. Things That Make Us Smart, Addison Wesley. 1993, p. 97		*[Norman, 1993] Norman, Donald. Things That Make Us Smart, Addison Wesley. 1993, p. 97

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	{{Quotation \|'''Expressiveness''' criteria identify graphical languages that express the desired information. […] A set of facts is expressible in a language if it contains a sentence that (1) encodes all the facts in the set, (2) encodes only the facts in the set.\|[Mackinlay, 1986]}}		{{Quotation \|'''Expressiveness''' criteria identify graphical languages that express the desired information. […] A set of facts is expressible in a language if it contains a sentence that (1) encodes all the facts in the set, (2) encodes only the facts in the set.\|[Mackinlay, 1986]}}

			{{Quotation \| A visualization is said to be expressive if and only if it encodes all the data relations intended and no other data relations.\|[Card, 2007, p. 523]}}


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	== References ==		== References ==
	* [Mackinlay 1986] Jock Mackinlay. Automating the Design of Graphical Presentations of Relational Information. ''ACM Transactions on Graphics'', 5(2):110-141, 1986.		*[Card, 2007] Stuart Card, Information visualization, in A. Sears and J.A. Jacko (eds.), The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc, 2007.
			*[Mackinlay 1986] Jock Mackinlay. Automating the Design of Graphical Presentations of Relational Information. ''ACM Transactions on Graphics'', 5(2):110-141, 1986.
	*[Norman, 1993] Norman, Donald. Things That Make Us Smart, Addison Wesley. 1993, p. 97		*[Norman, 1993] Norman, Donald. Things That Make Us Smart, Addison Wesley. 1993, p. 97
	*[Schumann and Müller, 2000] Heidrun Schumann and Wolfgang Müller, Visualisierung - Grundlagen und allgemeine Methoden. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000.		*[Schumann and Müller, 2000] Heidrun Schumann and Wolfgang Müller, Visualisierung - Grundlagen und allgemeine Methoden. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000.

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	{{Definition\|A visualization is considered to be '''expressive''' if the relevant information of a dataset (and only this) is expressed by the visualization. The term "relevant" implies that expressiveness of a visualization can only be assessed regarding a particular user working with the visual representation to achieve certain goals.}}		{{Definition\|A visualization is considered to be '''expressive''' if the relevant information of a dataset (and only this) is expressed by the visualization. The term "relevant" implies that expressiveness of a visualization can only be assessed regarding a particular user working with the visual representation to achieve certain goals.}}

			{{Quotation \|'''Expressiveness''' criteria identify graphical languages that express the desired information. […] A set of facts is expressible in a language if it contains a sentence that (1) encodes all the facts in the set, (2) encodes only the facts in the set.\|[Mackinlay, 1986]}}



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	== References ==		== References ==
			* [Mackinlay 1986] Jock Mackinlay. Automating the Design of Graphical Presentations of Relational Information. ''ACM Transactions on Graphics'', 5(2):110-141, 1986.
	*[Norman, 1993] Norman, Donald. Things That Make Us Smart, Addison Wesley. 1993, p. 97		*[Norman, 1993] Norman, Donald. Things That Make Us Smart, Addison Wesley. 1993, p. 97
	*[Schumann and Müller, 2000] Heidrun Schumann and Wolfgang Müller, Visualisierung - Grundlagen und allgemeine Methoden. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000.		*[Schumann and Müller, 2000] Heidrun Schumann and Wolfgang Müller, Visualisierung - Grundlagen und allgemeine Methoden. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000.

Iwolf: Appropriateness principle of D. Norman

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Appropriateness principle of D. Norman

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	{{Definition\|A visualization is considered to be '''expressive''' if the relevant information of a dataset (and only this) is expressed by the visualization. The term "relevant" implies that expressiveness of a visualization can only be assessed regarding a particular user working with the visual representation to achieve certain goals.}}		{{Definition\|A visualization is considered to be '''expressive''' if the relevant information of a dataset (and only this) is expressed by the visualization. The term "relevant" implies that expressiveness of a visualization can only be assessed regarding a particular user working with the visual representation to achieve certain goals.}}


			Don Norman calls this "Appropriateness principle" in [Norman, 1993]:
			{{Quotation\|'''Appropriateness principle:''' The representation used by the artifact should provide exactly the information acceptable to the task: neither more nor less.\|[Norman, 1993]}}


	see also: [[Effectiveness]], [[Appropriateness]]		see also: [[Effectiveness]], [[Appropriateness]]

	== References ==		== References ==
			*[Norman, 1993] Norman, Donald. Things That Make Us Smart, Addison Wesley. 1993, p. 97
	*[Schumann and Müller, 2000] Heidrun Schumann and Wolfgang Müller, Visualisierung - Grundlagen und allgemeine Methoden. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000.		*[Schumann and Müller, 2000] Heidrun Schumann and Wolfgang Müller, Visualisierung - Grundlagen und allgemeine Methoden. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000.
	*[Tominski, 2006] Christian Tominski, Event-Based Visualization for User-Centered Visual Analysis, PhD Thesis, Institute for Computer Science, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Rostock, 2006.		*[Tominski, 2006] Christian Tominski, Event-Based Visualization for User-Centered Visual Analysis, PhD Thesis, Institute for Computer Science, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Rostock, 2006.

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	== References ==		== References ==
	*[Schumann and Müller, 2000] Heidrun Schumann and Wolfgang Müller, Visualisierung - Grundlagen und allgemeine Methoden. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000.		*[Schumann and Müller, 2000] Heidrun Schumann and Wolfgang Müller, Visualisierung - Grundlagen und allgemeine Methoden. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000.
	*[Tominski, 2006] Christian Tominski, Event-Based Visualization for User-Centered Visual Analysis, PhD Thesis, Institute for Computer Science, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Rostock, ~~forthcoming~~ 2006.		*[Tominski, 2006] Christian Tominski, Event-Based Visualization for User-Centered Visual Analysis, PhD Thesis, Institute for Computer Science, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Rostock, 2006.

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Iwolf at 12:34, 8 May 2006

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{{Definition|A visualization is considered to be '''expressive''' if the relevant information of a dataset (and only this) is expressed by the visualization. The term "relevant" implies that expressiveness of a visualization can only be assessed regarding a particular user working with the visual representation to achieve certain goals.}}

see also: [[Effectiveness]], [[Appropriateness]]

== References ==
*[Schumann and Müller, 2000] Heidrun Schumann and Wolfgang Müller, Visualisierung - Grundlagen und allgemeine Methoden. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000.
*[Tominski, 2006] Christian Tominski, Event-Based Visualization for User-Centered Visual Analysis, PhD Thesis, Institute for Computer Science, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Rostock, forthcoming 2006.

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