The Structure of the Information Visualization

PDF of paper by Stuart K. Card and Jock Mackinlay
card@parc.xerox.com, mackinlay@parc.xerox.com

ABSTRACT
Research on information visualization has reached the
place where a number of successful point designs have
been proposed and a number of techniques of been
discovered. It is now appropriate to begin to describe and
analyze portions of the design space so as to understand
the differences among designs and to suggest new
possibilities. This paper proposes an organization of the
information visualization literature and illustrates it with a
series of examples. The result is a framework for
designing