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CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Communication chains and multitasking
There is a growing literature on managing multitasking and interruptions in the workplace. In an ethnographic study, we investigated the phenomenon of communication chains, the oc...
Norman Makoto Su, Gloria Mark
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Increasing the utility of quantitative empirical studies for meta-analysis
Despite the long history and consistent use of quantitative empirical methods to evaluate information visualization techniques and systems, our understanding of interface use rema...
Heidi Lam, Tamara Munzner
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Understanding and characterizing insights: how do people gain insights using information visualization?
Even though "providing insight" has been considered one of the main purposes of information visualization (InfoVis), we feel that insight is still a not-well-understood ...
Ji Soo Yi, Youn ah Kang, John T. Stasko, Julie A. ...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Grounded evaluation of information visualizations
We introduce grounded evaluation as a process that attempts to ensure that the evaluation of an information visualization tool is situated within the context of its intended use. ...
Petra Isenberg, Torre Zuk, Christopher Collins, M....
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Internalization, qualitative methods, and evaluation
Information Visualization (InfoVis) is at least in part defined by a process that occurs within the subjective internal experience of the users of visualization tools. Hence, user...
Sarah Faisal, Brock Craft, Paul A. Cairns, Ann Bla...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Qualitative analysis of visualization: a building design field study
We conducted an ethnographic field study examining the ways in which building design teams used visual representations of data to coordinate their work. Here we describe our exper...
Melanie Tory, Sheryl Staub-French