DocumentCode :
1551771
Title :
Task-specific visualization design
Author :
Treinish, Lloyd A.
Author_Institution :
IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Volume :
19
Issue :
5
fYear :
1999
Firstpage :
72
Lastpage :
77
Abstract :
This case study in operational weather forecasting demonstrates the principles of task-specific visualization design: defining user needs, implementing that definition, and establishing techniques for different user goals. The current applications can generate visualizations for the Web after an intermediate step of migrating the products to a Web server. This proves advantageous in an operational environment because the forecaster has content control. However, direct generation within a Web browser, which requires a simplified user interface and content, will require further refinement of the task decomposition. The notion of task-driven customization of content and interface has succeeded in weather forecasting, but the idea also applies to other domains. The potential benefits should encourage visualization designers to adopt these principles in their application development
Keywords :
data visualisation; design engineering; weather forecasting; Web; application development; defining user needs; task-driven customization; task-specific visualization design; user goals; visualization designers; weather forecasting; Data visualization; Laboratories; Meteorology; Mission critical systems; Predictive models; Surface topography; User interfaces; Weather forecasting; Wind forecasting; Wind speed;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
0272-1716
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/38.788803
Filename :
788803
Link To Document :
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