From Visualization to Visually Enabled Reasoning

Interactive Visualization has been used to study scientific phenomena, analyze data, visualize information, and to explore large amounts of multivariate data. It enables the human mind to gain novel insights by empowering the human visual system, encompassing the brain and the eyes, to discover properties that were previously unknown. While it is believed that the process of creating interactive visualizations is reasonably well understood, the process of stimulating and enabling human reasoning with the aid of interactive visualization tools is still a highly unexplored field. We hypothesize that visualizations make an impact if they successfully influence a thought process or a decision. Interacting with visualizations is part of this process. We present exemplary cases where visualization was successful in enabling human reasoning, and instances where the interaction with data helped in understanding the data and making a better informed deci...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: DAGSTUHL
• Authors: Joerg Meyer, Jim Thomas, Stephan Diehl, Brian Fisher, Daniel A. Keim
• Keywords: DAGSTUHL 2010, Human Reasoning, Interactive Visualization, Interactive Visualization Tools, Software Engineering