ChangeCatcher: Increasing Inter-author Awareness for Visualization Development

dc.contributor.authorLoorak, Mona Hosseinkhanien_US
dc.contributor.authorTory, Melanieen_US
dc.contributor.authorCarpendale, Sheelaghen_US
dc.contributor.editorJeffrey Heer and Heike Leitte and Timo Ropinskien_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-02T18:07:12Z
dc.date.available2018-06-02T18:07:12Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractWe introduce an approach for explicitly revealing changes between versions of a visualization workbook to support version comparison tasks. Visualization authors may need to understand version changes for a variety of reasons, analogous to document editing. An author who has been away for a while may need to catch up on the changes made by their co-author, or a person responsible for formatting compliance may need to check formatting changes that occurred since the last time they reviewed the work. We introduce ChangeCatcher, a prototype tool to help people find and understand changes in a visualization workbook, specifically, a Tableau workbook. Our design is based on interviews we conducted with experts to investigate user needs and practices around version comparison. ChangeCatcher provides an overview of changes across six categories, and employs a multi-level details-on-demand approach to progressively reveal details. Our qualitative study showed that ChangeCatcher's methods for explicitly revealing and categorizing version changes were helpful in version comparison tasks.en_US
dc.description.number3
dc.description.sectionheadersComparative and Collaborative
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forum
dc.description.volume37
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.13400
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659
dc.identifier.pages51-62
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13400
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.1111/cgf13400
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectH.5.2 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]
dc.subjectUser Interfaces
dc.subjectScreen design
dc.titleChangeCatcher: Increasing Inter-author Awareness for Visualization Developmenten_US
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