Premium
Rule‐based Visual Mappings – with a Case Study on Poetry Visualization
Author(s) -
AbdulRahman A.,
Lein J.,
Coles K.,
Maguire E.,
Meyer M.,
Wynne M.,
Johnson C. R.,
Trefethen A.,
Chen M.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
computer graphics forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.578
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1467-8659
pISSN - 0167-7055
DOI - 10.1111/cgf.12125
Subject(s) - computer science , poetry , visualization , flexibility (engineering) , set (abstract data type) , human–computer interaction , information visualization , artificial intelligence , programming language , art , mathematics , statistics , literature
In this paper, we present a user‐centered design study on poetry visualization. We develop a rule‐based solution to address the conflicting needs for maintaining the flexibility of visualizing a large set of poetic variables and for reducing the tedium and cognitive load in interacting with the visual mapping control panel. We adopt Munzner's nested design model to maintain high‐level interactions with the end users in a closed loop. In addition, we examine three design options for alleviating the difficulty in visualizing poems latitudinally. We present several example uses of poetry visualization in scholarly research on poetry.