The Impact of Multiple Coordinated Views on the Visual Data Exploration and Analysis

The use of information visualization tools that support multiple coordinated views for data exploration and analysis has become more frequent. However, few usability studies have focused this group of tools. The goal of this paper is to perform usability experiments with tools supporting multiple coordinated views on the same screen, in separate screens and tools that support each technique individually. To ensure a fair evaluation, a complexity-based task taxonomy was developed. The tools were therefore used to answer questions of the same level of complexity.