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Rule-based Visual Mappings - with a Case Study on Poetry Visualizatio
journal contribution
posted on 2013-07-31, 11:56 authored by Alfie Abdul-RahmanAlfie Abdul-Rahman, Julie Lein, Katharine Coles, Eamonn MaguireEamonn Maguire, Miriah Meyer, Martin Wynne, Christopher R. Johnson, Anne Trefethen, Min ChenIn this paper, we present a user-centered design study on poetry visualization. We develop a rule-based solution to address the conflicting needs for maintaining the flexibility of visualizing a large set of poetic variables and for reducing the tedium and cognitive load in interacting with the visual mapping control panel. We adopt Munzner’s nested design model to maintain high-level interactions with the end users in a closed loop. In addition, we examine three design options for alleviating the difficulty in visualizing poems latitudinally. We present several
example uses of poetry visualization in scholarly research on poetry.
Presented at EuroVis 2013 in Leipzig, Germany.