A Visualization Authoring Model for Post-WIMP Interfaces

TL;DR

This paper introduces an extended visualization authoring model tailored for Post-WIMP interfaces, aiming to improve the seamless creation and use of visualizations in multi-view, immersive, and multi-display environments.

Contribution

It presents a novel authoring model that supports iterative visualization development and multiple views, addressing challenges in Post-WIMP interface environments.

Findings

Enhanced support for iterative visualization design

Improved understanding of design choices in Post-WIMP systems

Facilitates data analysis in complex visualization environments

Abstract

Besides the ability to utilize visualizations, the process of creating and authoring them is of equal importance. However, for visualization environments beyond the desktop, like multi-display or immersive analytics environments, this process is often decoupled from the place where the visualization is actually used. This separation makes it hard for authors, developers, or users of such systems to understand, what consequences different choices they made will have for the created visualizations. We present an extended visualization authoring model for Post-WIMP interfaces, which support designers by a more seamless approach of developing and utilizing visualizations. With it, our emphasis is on the iterative nature of creating and configuring visualizations, the existence of multiple views in the same system, and requirements for the data analysis process.