2001 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis 2001)
An Empirical Comparison of Three Commercial Information Visualization Systems
San Diego, CA
October 22-October 23
ISBN: 0-7695-1342-5
An empirical comparison of three commercial information visualization systems on three different databases is presented. The systems use different paradigms for visualizing data. Tasks were selected to be "ecologically relevant", i.e. meaningful and interesting in the respective domains. Users of one system turned out to solve problems significantly faster than users of the other two, while users of another system would supply significantly more correct answers. Reasons for these results and general observations about the studied systems are discussed.