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Assessment criteria for comprehensibility in visualization environments

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Assessment criteria for comprehensibility in visualization environments

Joshi, Yojana (2005) Assessment criteria for comprehensibility in visualization environments. Masters thesis, Concordia University.

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Visualization is essentially a cognitive process in which humans form a mental model or image in their minds to enable them to comprehend complex information about the artifacts, relationships, process, phenomena, etc. under study. Computer based visualization environments combine interactivity with visual renderings of the data in the form of suitable tools and techniques to support this comprehension process. In spite of the plethora of visualization tools and techniques that have evolved, visualization environments are often not very effective in their support of this comprehension process. Clearly we need quantitative measures to asses the effectiveness of a visualization environment. Given the cognitive nature of visualization the two main questions are---what do we asses and how? In this research, we have adopted a systematic approach towards providing answers to these questions. We identify that there could exist a gap between the information "communication" intent of the visualization environment and the information "seeking" intent of the user. Our premise is that smaller this gap more effective is the visualization environment in terms of information comprehended by the user.

Divisions:Concordia University > Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science > Computer Science and Software Engineering
Item Type:Thesis (Masters)
Authors:Joshi, Yojana
Pagination:xiv, 169 leaves : ill., forms ; 28 cm.
Institution:Concordia University
Degree Name:M. Comp. Sc.
Program:Computer Science and Software Engineering
Date:2005
Thesis Supervisor(s):Mudur, Sudhir and Seffah, Ahmed
Identification Number:LE 3 C66C67M 2005 J67
ID Code:8854
Deposited By: Concordia University Library
Deposited On:18 Aug 2011 18:37
Last Modified:13 Jul 2020 20:05
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