Evaluation of two interaction techniques for visualization of dynamic graphs

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-50106-2_43zbMATH Open1478.68232arXiv1608.08936OpenAlexW2963423724MaRDI QIDQ2961548FDOQ2961548

Authors: Paolo Federico, Silvia Miksch 

Publication date: 21 February 2017

Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Several techniques for visualization of dynamic graphs are based on different spatial arrangements of a temporal sequence of node-link diagrams. Many studies in the literature have investigated the importance of maintaining the user's mental map across this temporal sequence, but usually each layout is considered as a static graph drawing and the effect of user interaction is disregarded. We conducted a task-based controlled experiment to assess the effectiveness of two basic interaction techniques: the adjustment of the layout stability and the highlighting of adjacent nodes and edges. We found that generally both interaction techniques increase accuracy, sometimes at the cost of longer completion times, and that the highlighting outclasses the stability adjustment for many tasks except the most complex ones.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08936

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zbMATH Keywords

evaluationinteractionnetwork visualizationdynamic graphstime-oriented datauser-study

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graph theory (including graph drawing) in computer science (68R10)

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Uses Software

• GVF
• Prefuse

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