Adapting Heuristic Evaluation to Information Visualization - A Method for Defining a Heuristic Set by Heuristic Grouping

Maurício Rossi de Oliveira, Celmar Guimarães da Silva

2017

Abstract

Heuristic evaluation technique is a classical evaluation method in Human-Computer Interaction area. Researchers and software developers broadly use it, given that it is fast, cheap and easy to use. Using it in other areas demands creating a new heuristic set able to identify common problems of these areas. Information Visualization (InfoVis) researchers commonly use this technique with the original usability heuristic set proposed by Nielsen, which does not cover many relevant aspects of InfoVis. InfoVis literature presents sets of guidelines that cover InfoVis concepts, but it does not present most of them as heuristics, or they cover much specific concepts. This work presents a method for defining a set of InfoVis heuristics for use in heuristic evaluation. The method clusters heuristics and guidelines found in a literature review, and creates a new heuristic set based on each group. As a result, we created a new set of 15 generic heuristics, from a set of 62 ones, which we hypothesize that will help evaluators to take into account a broad set of visualization aspects during evaluation with possibly less cognitive effort.

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Rossi de Oliveira M. and Guimarães da Silva C. (2017). Adapting Heuristic Evaluation to Information Visualization - A Method for Defining a Heuristic Set by Heuristic Grouping . In Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2017) ISBN 978-989-758-228-8, pages 225-232. DOI: 10.5220/0006133202250232


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@conference{ivapp17,
author={Maurício Rossi de Oliveira and Celmar Guimarães da Silva},
title={Adapting Heuristic Evaluation to Information Visualization - A Method for Defining a Heuristic Set by Heuristic Grouping},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2017)},
year={2017},
pages={225-232},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006133202250232},
isbn={978-989-758-228-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2017)
TI - Adapting Heuristic Evaluation to Information Visualization - A Method for Defining a Heuristic Set by Heuristic Grouping
SN - 978-989-758-228-8
AU - Rossi de Oliveira M.
AU - Guimarães da Silva C.
PY - 2017
SP - 225
EP - 232
DO - 10.5220/0006133202250232