Visualization interfaces designed for heterogeneous devices such as wall displays and mobile screens must be responsive to varying display dimensions, resolution, and interaction capabilities. In this paper, we report on two user studies of visual representations for large versus small displays. The goal of our experiments was to investigate differences between a large vertical display and a mobile hand-held display in terms of the data comprehension and the quality of resulting insights. To this end, we developed a visual interface with a coordinated multiple view layout for the large display and two alternative designs of the same interface – a space-saving boundary visualization layout and an overview layout – for the mobile condition. The first experiment was a controlled laboratory study designed to evaluate the effect of display size on the perception of changes in a visual representation, and yielded significant correctness differences even while completion time remained similar. The second evaluation was a qualitative study in a practical setting and showed that participants were able to easily associate and work with the responsive visualizations. Based on the results, we conclude the paper by providing new guidelines for screen-responsive visualization interfaces.

为壁挂式显示器和移动屏幕等异构设备设计的可视化界面必须能够响应不同的显示尺寸、分辨率和交互功能。在本文中，我们报告了针对大型显示器与小型显示器的视觉表示的两项用户研究。我们实验的目标是研究大型垂直显示器和移动手持显示器在数据理解和所得见解质量方面的差异。为此，我们为大型显示器开发了一个具有协调多视图布局的可视化界面，并为移动条件开发了相同界面的两种替代设计——节省空间的边界可视化布局和概览布局。第一个实验是一项受控实验室研究，旨在评估显示尺寸对视觉表现变化感知的影响，即使完成时间保持相似，也产生了显着的正确性差异。第二个评估是在实际环境中进行的定性研究，表明参与者能够轻松地将响应式可视化联系起来并与之合作。基于这些结果，我们通过为屏幕响应式可视化界面提供新的指南来总结本文。