%0 Conference Paper %1 Shneiderman1996 %A Shneiderman, Ben %B IEEE Visual Languages %C College Park, Maryland 20742, U.S.A. %D 1996 %K %N UMCP-CSD CS-TR-3665 %P 336-343 %T The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations %U citeseer.ist.psu.edu/shneiderman96eyes.html %X A useful starting point for designing advanced graphical user interfaces is the Visual Information-Seeking Mantra: Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand. But this is only a starting point in trying to understand the rich and varied set of information visualizations that have been proposed in recent years. This paper offers a task by data type taxonomy with seven data types (1-, 2-, 3-dimensional data, temporal and multi-dimensional data, and tree and network data) and seven tasks (overview, zoom, filter, details-on-demand, relate, history, and extract).

@inproceedings{Shneiderman1996, abstract = {A useful starting point for designing advanced graphical user interfaces is the Visual Information-Seeking Mantra: Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand. But this is only a starting point in trying to understand the rich and varied set of information visualizations that have been proposed in recent years. This paper offers a task by data type taxonomy with seven data types (1-, 2-, 3-dimensional data, temporal and multi-dimensional data, and tree and network data) and seven tasks (overview, zoom, filter, details-on-demand, relate, history, and extract).}, added-at = {2012-07-13T11:58:57.000+0200}, address = {College Park, Maryland 20742, U.S.A.}, author = {Shneiderman, Ben}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2cef18bd844d73659f72b6f55d7ac6670/jabreftest}, booktitle = {IEEE Visual Languages}, file = {Shneiderman1996.pdf:1996/Shneiderman1996.pdf:PDF}, groups = {public}, interhash = {0fabdf70227f667582c6e015deaa63dc}, intrahash = {cef18bd844d73659f72b6f55d7ac6670}, keywords = {}, number = {UMCP-CSD CS-TR-3665}, pages = {336-343}, timestamp = {2012-07-13T11:58:57.000+0200}, title = {The Eyes Have It: {A} Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations}, url = {citeseer.ist.psu.edu/shneiderman96eyes.html}, username = {jabreftest}, year = 1996 }