Blocks: Creating Rich Tables with Drag-and-Drop Interaction
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Date
2022
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
We present Blocks, a formalism that enables the building of visualizations by specifying layout, data relationships, and level of detail (LOD) for specific portions of the visualization. Users can create and manipulate Blocks on a canvas interface through drag-and-drop interaction, controlling the LOD of the data attributes for tabular style visualizations. We conducted a user study to compare how 24 participants employ Blocks and Tableau to complete a target visualization task. Findings from the study suggest that Blocks is a useful mechanism for creating visualizations with embedded microcharts, conditional formatting, and custom layouts. We describe future directions for extending Blocks in visual analysis interfaces.
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CCS Concepts Human-centered computing --> Information visualization
@inproceedings{10.2312:evs.20221094,
booktitle = {EuroVis 2022 - Short Papers},
editor = {Agus, Marco and Aigner, Wolfgang and Hoellt, Thomas},
title = {{Blocks: Creating Rich Tables with Drag-and-Drop Interaction}},
author = {Whilden, Allison and Karis, Dirk and Setlur, Vidya and Degtyar, Rodion and Que, Jonathan and Lymperopoulos, Filippos},
year = {2022},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-184-7},
DOI = {10.2312/evs.20221094}
}