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Visual Thinking In Action: Visualizations As Used On Whiteboards
Dec. 2011 (vol. 17 no. 12)
pp. 2508-2517
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Jagoda Walny, Sheelagh Carpendale, Nathalie Henry Riche, Gina Venolia, Philip Fawcett, "Visual Thinking In Action: Visualizations As Used On Whiteboards," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 17, no. 12, pp. 2508-2517, Dec., 2011.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TVCG.2011.251,
author = {Jagoda Walny and Sheelagh Carpendale and Nathalie Henry Riche and Gina Venolia and Philip Fawcett},
title = {Visual Thinking In Action: Visualizations As Used On Whiteboards},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
volume = {17},
number = {12},
issn = {1077-2626},
year = {2011},
pages = {2508-2517},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TVCG.2011.251},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Jagoda Walny, University of Calgary
Sheelagh Carpendale, University of Calgary / Microsoft Research
Nathalie Henry Riche, Microsoft Research
Gina Venolia, Microsoft Research
Philip Fawcett, Microsoft Research
While it is still most common for information visualization researchers to develop new visualizations from a data- or taskdriven perspective, there is growing interest in understanding the types of visualizations people create by themselves for personal use. As part of this recent direction, we have studied a large collection of whiteboards in a research institution, where people make active use of combinations of words, diagrams and various types of visuals to help them further their thought processes. Our goal is to arrive at a better understanding of the nature of visuals that are created spontaneously during brainstorming, thinking, communicating, and general problem solving on whiteboards. We use the qualitative approaches of open coding, interviewing, and affinity diagramming to explore the use of recognizable and novel visuals, and the interplay between visualization and diagrammatic elements with words, numbers and labels. We discuss the potential implications of our findings on information visualization design.

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Index Terms:
Visualization, diagrams, whiteboards, observational study.
Citation:
Jagoda Walny, Sheelagh Carpendale, Nathalie Henry Riche, Gina Venolia, Philip Fawcett, "Visual Thinking In Action: Visualizations As Used On Whiteboards," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 17, no. 12, pp. 2508-2517, Dec. 2011, doi:10.1109/TVCG.2011.251
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