Abstract

We review the state-of-the-art interaction techniques of visualization authoring tools. The visualization tools tend to help users in the creation, exploration, or presentation of visualizations. Also, they allow users to craft expressive designs or extract data from visualizations. The review presents the interaction techniques integrated into the tools for those mentioned above five high-level goals. We cover each goal’s tools and summarize how a sequence in the independent interaction techniques leads to the goal. We also discuss how well researchers had evaluated the usability and intuitiveness of interaction techniques. We aimed to reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of the evaluations. To that end, from the perspective of human cognition, we reviewed the goals, procedures, and findings of evaluations. Principally, human cognition is engaged when they perform tasks in a tool. The interaction techniques bridge the gap between human cognition and the goals they want to achieve from the tool. To sum up, in this review, we present a novel triad ‘goals-interaction techniques-cognition’ taxonomy. Besides, the review suggests the need for further work to enhance tools and understand users.

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中文翻译：

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从目标和人类认知的角度检查数据可视化创作工具中的交互技术：一项调查

摘要

我们回顾了可视化创作工具的最新交互技术。可视化工具倾向于帮助用户创建，探索或呈现可视化。此外，它们还允许用户制作富有表现力的设计或从可视化中提取数据。审查提出了用于上述五个高级目标的工具中集成的交互技术。我们介绍了每个目标的工具，并总结了独立交互技术中的序列如何实现目标。我们还将讨论研究人员如何评估交互技术的可用性和直观性。我们旨在反思评估的优势和劣势。为此，从人类认知的角度出发，我们回顾了目标，程序和评估结果。原则上，当他们在工具中执行任务时，就会参与人类的认知。交互技术弥合了人类认知与他们希望通过工具实现的目标之间的鸿沟。综上所述，在这篇综述中，我们提出了一种新颖的三合会“目标-互动技术-认知”分类法。此外，审查建议需要进一步工作以增强工具和了解用户。

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