GADGET: goal-oriented application design guidance for modular visualization environments

Modular Visualization Environments (MVEs) have recently been regarded as the de facto standard for scientific data visualization, mainly due to adoption of visual programming style, reusability, and extendability. However, since scientists and engineers as the MVE principal user are not always familiar with how to map numerical data to proper graphical primitives, the set of built-in modules is not fully used to construct necessary application networks. Therefore, a certain mechanism needs to be incorporated into MVEs, which makes use of heuristics and expertise of visualization specialists (visineers), and which supports the user in designing his/her applications with MVEs. The Wehrend's goal-oriented taxonomy of visualization techniques is adopted as the basic philosophy to develop a system, called GADGET, for application design guidance for MVEs. The GADGET system interactively helps the user design appropriate applications according to the specific visualization goals, temp...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: VISUALIZATION
• Authors: Issei Fujishiro, Yuriko Takeshima, Yoshihiko Ichikawa, Kyoko Nakamura
• Keywords: Data Visualization, Gadget, Modular Visualization Environments, Visualization, VISUALIZATION 1997