Interaction Model for Information Visualization System
Recent growth of computer systems and the Internet has brought us various kinds of, vast amount of data. As the cost of getting information decreases, how to make use of the obtained data is becoming the crucial problem for us. Information visualization systems (InfoVis) play an important role for making use of data, by organizing and presenting data so that humans can easily examine it. Although a view (visual representation) provided by InfoVis is useful for users to grasp data space, its role as an interface for accessing data space is also important. For example, exploratory data analysis and visual data mining can be effectively supported by InfoVis, through which users can investigate data from various viewpoints. In such situation, the design of interaction between users and InfoVis is important. This paper gives the survey of interaction models and taxonomies for interactive information visualization systems. This paper also introduces the interaction model based on the concept of visualization cube, which is proposed for designing interactive InfoVis that supports exploratory data analysis of trend information.