Visage: A User Interface Environment for Exploring Information

Steven F. Roth, Peter Lucas, Jeffrey A. Senn,
Cristina C. Gomberg, Michael B. Burks, Philip J. Stroffolino,
John A. Kolojejchick & Carolyn Dunmire1
MAYA Design Group, Inc.
2100 Wharton Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15203
412-488-2900
lucas@maya.com
http://www.maya.com
 Carnegie Mellon University
School of Computer Science
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-268-7690
steven.roth@cs.cmu.edu
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sage
 Army Research Lab
Aberdeen Proving Ground
MD 21005
410-278-5937
cdunmire@arl.mil
1Roth & Kolojejchick are affiliated with Carnegie Mellon, Dunmire with ARL, and the others with MAYA Design Group.


Abstract

Visage is a prototype user interface environment for exploring and analyzing information. It represents an approach to coordinating multiple visualizations, analysis and presentation tools in data-intensive domains. Visage is based on an Information-centric approach to user interface design which strives to eliminate impediments to direct user access to information objects across applications and visualizations. Visage consists of a set of data manipulation operations, an intelligent system for generating a wide variety of data visualizations (SAGE) and a briefing tool that supports the conversion of visual displays used during exploration into interactive presentation slides. This paper presents the user interface components and styles of interaction central to Visage's information-centric approach.

Keywords: Visualization, exploratory data analysis, graphics, user interface environment, human-computer interaction

Sections

  1. Introduction
  2. An Example
  3. Background: Towards an Information Centric User Interface Architecture
  4. Visage Enviroment Main Components
  5. Incorporating Briefing Tools
  6. SAGE Automatic Graphics Generation
  7. Acknowledgements & References
Color Plates


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