SageTools: an intelligent environment for sketching, browsing, and customizing data-graphics

Our approach views data-graphic design as two complementary processes: design as a constructive process of selecting and arranging graphical elements, and design as a process of browsing and customizing previous cases. We present three novel tools for supporting these processes. SageBrush assembles data-graphics from primitive elements like bars, lines, and axes. SageBook browses previously created data-graphics relevant to current needs. SAGE automatically designs data-graphics, interpreting the user's specifications as conveyed with the other tools. The combined environment, SageTools, enhances user-directed design by providing automatic presentation capabilities with styles of interaction that support data-graphic design.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1995
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Steven F. Roth, John Kolojejchick, Joe Mattis, Mei C. Chuah
• Keywords: CHI 1995, Data-graphic Design, Human Computer Interaction, SageBrush Assembles Data-graphics, Views Data-graphic Design