Data Exploration Combining Kinetic and Static Visualization Displays

Abstract

We describe interactions between kinetic (moving) and static information displays. We have implemented "moxel" kinetic displays in a classic discovery platform with many standard information visualization and analytic tools, and experimented with interactions between them. Moxels, which generalize pixels, are an advanced, moving, form of iconographic display of the kind first developed in static form by Pickett and White (1966). As with the static graphic icons of those early displays, moxels provide a way of mapping together in one image multiple data variables, but with potentially more potency with in-place motion. We show examples of how the two kinds of displays have been integrated, and discuss issues with the integration of dynamic and static visualizations in a single environment. We discuss several interaction paradigms between them including linked brushing, multiple selections, and operations on selected regions