{"title":"Visualization Patterns: A Context-Sensitive Tool to Evaluate Visualization Techniques","authors":"H. Padda, A. Seffah, S. Mudur","doi":"10.1109/VISSOF.2007.4290705","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In the myriad of visualization tools/techniques available to the users, it is hard to fathom the applicability of a given tool/technique to the visualization problem in hand. The tool users/evaluators have no guidance mechanism that could describe the suitability of visualization tools/techniques to fulfill their objectives. A tool may be good in one context and bad in another. This 'context of use' has become a pandemic in almost all measures of evaluations. To deal with this complex factor of tool selection/evaluation, we propose to describe a visualization tool/technique by encapsulating a technique in a pattern format describing the applicable context of use for it. We highlight the usefulness of such visualization patterns for evaluation by describing an exemplar visualization pattern solving a problem of displaying dependencies among software objects in the context of static software structure representation.","PeriodicalId":217160,"journal":{"name":"2007 4th IEEE International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2007-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"7","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2007 4th IEEE International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VISSOF.2007.4290705","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In the myriad of visualization tools/techniques available to the users, it is hard to fathom the applicability of a given tool/technique to the visualization problem in hand. The tool users/evaluators have no guidance mechanism that could describe the suitability of visualization tools/techniques to fulfill their objectives. A tool may be good in one context and bad in another. This 'context of use' has become a pandemic in almost all measures of evaluations. To deal with this complex factor of tool selection/evaluation, we propose to describe a visualization tool/technique by encapsulating a technique in a pattern format describing the applicable context of use for it. We highlight the usefulness of such visualization patterns for evaluation by describing an exemplar visualization pattern solving a problem of displaying dependencies among software objects in the context of static software structure representation.