%0 Journal Article %1 citeulike:4523363 %A Large, Andrew %A Beheshti, Jamshid %A Tabatabaei, Nahid %A Nesset, Valerie %C School of Information Studies, McGill University, 3459 McTavish Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1Y2 %D 2009 %J Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology %K information, taxonomy, visualization %N 9999 %P NA+ %R 10.1002/asi.21095 %T Developing a visual taxonomy: Children's views on aesthetics %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.21095 %V 9999 %X This article explores the aesthetic design criteria that should be incorporated into the information visualization of a taxonomy intended for use by children. Seven elementary-school students were each asked to represent their ideas in drawings for visualizing a taxonomy. Their drawings were analyzed according to six criteria - balance, equilibrium, symmetry, unity, rhythm, and economy - identified as aesthetic measures in previous research. The drawings revealed the presence of all six measures, and three - unity, equilibrium, and rhythm - were found to play an especially important role. It is therefore concluded that an aesthetic design for an information visualization for young users should incorporate all six measures.

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