After successful completion of the course, students are able to design visualizations that conform to common design guidelines. They know and are able to apply selected evaluations methods.  They are also able to conduct simple evaluations of information visualisations. They are able to apply theoretical ideas from relevant areas to the design and evaluation of visualizations. They are able to understand and present scientific texts.

The lecture will give an introduction into human perception and the design of usable visualisations. This lecture is based on the lecture Psychological Foundations of Visualization and is focused on the evaluation of visualisations. Practical aspects of evaluation processes will be discussed and exercises will be conducted. Students will search for literature and present this literature in written and oral form. 

Reading of scientific literature, presentation of scientific papers, critical discussion, exercises in evaluations, writing of brief summaries of scientific papers, writing of reports about evaluations

The lecture will be canceled on June 5th

ECTS Breakdown: 3 ECTS=75 hours

16 hours Lectures

10 hours Lectures + Presentations

10 hours Literature Research

7 hours Summary Literature Research

7 hours Presentation Preparation

19 hours Thinking Aloud Study

6 hours SummaryThinking Aloud Study

Paper presentation, Assignment - summary of scientific paper, report evaluation study

Ebert, A., Dix, A., Gershon, N., Pohl, M. (2011) Human Aspects of Visualization: Second IPIP WG 13.7. Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization, HCIV (INTERACT 2009), Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer

Ware, C. (2008) Visual Thinking: For Design. Morgan Kauffmann Series in Interactive Technologies