TY - GEN
T1 - TouchPivot
T2 - 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017
AU - Jo, Jaemin
AU - L'Yi, Sehi
AU - Lee, Bongshin
AU - Seo, Jinwook
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 ACM.
PY - 2017/5/2
Y1 - 2017/5/2
N2 - Recent advancements in tablet technology pose a great opportunity for information visualization to expand its horizons beyond desktops. In this paper, we present TouchPivot, a novel interface that assists visual data exploration on tablet devices. With novices in mind, TouchPivot supports data transformations, such as pivoting and filtering, with simple pen and touch interactions, and facilitates understanding of the transformations through tight coupling between a data table and visualization. We bring in WIMP interfaces to TouchPivot, leveraging their familiarity and accessibility to novices. We report on a user study conducted to compare TouchPivot with two commercial interfaces, Tableau and Microsoft Excel's PivotTable. Our results show that novices not only answered data-driven questions faster, but also created a larger number of meaningful charts during freeform exploration with TouchPivot than others. Finally, we discuss the main hurdles novices encountered during our study and possible remedies for them.
AB - Recent advancements in tablet technology pose a great opportunity for information visualization to expand its horizons beyond desktops. In this paper, we present TouchPivot, a novel interface that assists visual data exploration on tablet devices. With novices in mind, TouchPivot supports data transformations, such as pivoting and filtering, with simple pen and touch interactions, and facilitates understanding of the transformations through tight coupling between a data table and visualization. We bring in WIMP interfaces to TouchPivot, leveraging their familiarity and accessibility to novices. We report on a user study conducted to compare TouchPivot with two commercial interfaces, Tableau and Microsoft Excel's PivotTable. Our results show that novices not only answered data-driven questions faster, but also created a larger number of meaningful charts during freeform exploration with TouchPivot than others. Finally, we discuss the main hurdles novices encountered during our study and possible remedies for them.
KW - Data exploration
KW - Information visualization
KW - Natural interaction
KW - Novices
KW - Pen and touch interaction
KW - Pivot
KW - Table devices
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85044859232
U2 - 10.1145/3025453.3025752
DO - 10.1145/3025453.3025752
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85044859232
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 2660
EP - 2671
BT - CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 6 May 2017 through 11 May 2017
ER -