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DaisyViz: A Model-based User Interfaces Toolkit for Development of Interactive Information Visualization

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Although the increasing hordes of information visualization technologies are recognized both in industry and research community, there are seldom toolkits for non-expert users or end-users to rapidly design and develop domain-specific information visualization applications. Such toolkits should provide support for the unified data structures suited to tree, network, temporal and multi-dimensional data, well-known visualization techniques and interaction techniques, and generic visualization tasks. We built DaisyViz, a model-based user interfaces toolkit, which enables end-users to rapidly develop domain-specific information visualization applications without traditional programming. DaisyViz is based on an interface model called UIMI consisting of three declarative models – data model, visualization model, and control model. In the development process, users visually construct UIMI which could be used to generate profiles. Those profiles can be parsed by DaisyViz to automatically generate a prototype system. We firstly give the formal definition of UIMI, and then discuss the architecture of DaisyViz. To evaluate DasyViz we built an application in a manufacturing enterprise and performed a user study. The results show DaisyViz is usable and effective.

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Acknowledgments

This research is supported by the National High-Tech Research and Development Plan of China under Grant NO. 2007AA04Z153, the National Grand Fundamental Research 973 Program of China under Grant No. 2007CB310900, 2006CB303105, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. U0735004.

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  2. Institute of Software, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China

    Feng Tian & Guozhong Dai

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Ren, L., Tian, F., Zhang, L., Dai, G. (2009). DaisyViz: A Model-based User Interfaces Toolkit for Development of Interactive Information Visualization. In: Huang, M., Nguyen, Q., Zhang, K. (eds) Visual Information Communication. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0312-9_14

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