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T1 Information Visualization and Usability: Tools for Human Comprehension
A1 Vizoso García, Ángel Antonio
A2 Vázquez Herrero, Jorge
A2 Direito-Rebollal, Sabela
A2 Silva Rodríguez, Alba
A2 López García, Xosé
K1 Information visualization
K1 Usability
K1 Infographics
K1 User-centered design
AB This chapter makes a review on the progress of two growing areas in the field of communication: information visualization and usability. Information visualization has experimented a lot of changes during the last few years, especially with its arrival to the Internet and the development of different narrative forms by taking advantage of the main characteristics of the new environment. Something similar has occurred with the concept of usability. The following sections explore the significance of this young idea whose spread took place especially with the start of the Internet. With the objective of completing this theoretical framework, a small usability test was conducted with five renowned visualizations. The results of this test show that even the most salient journals do not fulfill many of the main usability recommendations. Hence, this area still has a considerable way to go regarding its appliance to information visualization.
PB Springer
SN 978-3-030-36314-7
YR 2020
FD 2020-01-04
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/38567
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/38567
LA eng
NO Vizoso, Á. (2020). Information Visualization and Usability: Tools for Human Comprehension. In: Vázquez-Herrero, J., Direito-Rebollal, S., Silva-Rodríguez, A., López-García, X. (eds) Journalistic Metamorphosis. Studies in Big Data, vol 70. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36315-4_7
NO This chapter is prepared within the framework of the project Digital native media in Spain: storytelling formats and mobile strategy (RTI2018-093346-B-C33), from the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Government of Spain). The project is co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). This text is also prepared as part of the activities of Novos Medios Research Group (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, GI-1641), supported by the programme Consolidation and Structuration of Competitive Research Units of the Galician Regional Government (ED431B 2017/48). The author is also beneficiary from the Education’s University Faculty Training Programme (FPU), financed by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Government of Spain).
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026