A cognitive classification framework for 3-dimensional information visualization

Abstract

ion: how does the design support information structuring and information hiding? ffl Affordances: how does the design show the users what they can do with it? The rest of this paper is divided into four sections. Section 2 discusses the three cognitive aspects used to classify 3D information visualization designs. In Section 3, fifteen important designs are described and compared using the three cognitive aspects, and Section 4 discusses some recent work in information visualization classification. The final section (Section 5) contains a discussion of 3D information visualization designs based on the comparisons in the paper. 2 Cognitive Aspects The ultimate purpose of any information visualization is to communicate properties of the information to a human. Therefore, it is important to consider human cognition when classifying information visualization designs. This report discusses cognitive aspects related to 3D information visualization, but the framework can easily be used for...