VisComposer: A Visual Programmable Composition Environment for Information Visualization  

作　　者：Honghui Mei Wei Chen Yuxin Ma Huihua Guan Wanqi Hu 

机构地区：[1]State Key Lab of CAD&CG,Zhejiang University,Hangzhou,China

出　　处：《Visual Informatics》2018年第1期71-81,共11页可视信息学（英文）

基　　金：This work is supported by National 973 Program of China(2015CB352503);National Natural Science Foundation of China(61772456,U1609217).

摘　　要：As the amount of data being collected has increased,the need for tools that can enable the visual exploration of data has also grown.This has led to the development of a variety of widely used programming frameworks for information visualization.Unfortunately,such frameworks demand comprehensive visualization and coding skills and require users to develop visualization from scratch.An alternative is to create interactive visualization design environments that require lttle to no programming.However,these tools only supports a small portion of visual formns.We present a programmable integrated development environment(IDE),VisComposer,that supports the development of expressive visualization using a drag and-drop visual interface.Vis-Composer exposes the programmability by customizing desired components within a modular-ized visualization composition pipeline,effectively balancing the capability gap between expert coders and visualization artists.The implemented system empowers users to compose compre-bensive visualizations with real-time preview and optimization features,and supports prototyp-ing,sharing and reuse of the effects by means of an intuitive visual composer.Visual program-ming and textual programming integrated in our system allow users to compose more complex visual effects while retaining the simplicity of use.We demonstrate the performance of VisCom-poser with a variety of examples and an informal user evaluation.

关 键 词：Information Visualization Visualization authoring Interactive development environment 

分 类 号：TP3[自动化与计算机技术—计算机科学与技术]