Appropriateness

Appropriateness regards the tradeoff between efforts required for creating the visual representation and the benefits yielded by it. If this tradeoff is balanced, the visualization is considered to be appropriate.

see also: Expressiveness, Effectiveness

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.