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On Encouraging Coupled Views for Visualization Exploration

Jonathan C. Roberts

In Robert F. Erbacher and Alex Pang, editors, Visual Data Exploration and Analysis VI, Proceedings of SPIE, volume 3643, pages 182-196. IS&T and SPIE, January 1999.

Abstract

Scientific visualization, especially visualization exploration, enables information to be investigated and better understood. Exploration enables hands-on experimentation with the displayed visualizations and the underlying data. Most exploration techniques, by their nature, generate multiple realizations and many data instances.

Thus, to best understand the information in coincident views, the manipulation information within one view may be `directed' to other related views. These multiple views may be described as being closely coupled.

Within this paper we advocate the use of coupled views for scientific visualization exploration. We describe, some key concepts of coupled views for visualization exploration and present how to encourage their use. The key concepts include: the scope of the correlation (between two specific views or many realizations), who initiates the correlation (whether the user or the system) and issues about `what is correlated' (objects within a view, or the whole viewport).

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Bibtex Record

@inproceedings{697,
author = {Jonathan C. Roberts},
title = {{On Encouraging Coupled Views for Visualization Exploration}},
month = {January},
year = {1999},
pages = {182-196},
keywords = {determinacy analysis, Craig interpolants},
note = {},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/1999/697},
    booktitle = {Visual Data Exploration and Analysis VI, Proceedings of SPIE},
    editor = {Robert F. Erbacher and Alex Pang},
    publisher = {IS&T and SPIE},
    volume = {3643},
}

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