比较布局再访：设计空间、指导方针和未来方向
Comparative Layouts Revisited: Design Space, Guidelines, and Future Directions
摘要：
我们对三种比较布局（即，并置、叠加和显式编码），它们是设计用于支持比较任务的信息可视化（InfoVis）布局。在过去的十年中，这些布局已经成为设计许多可视化系统的基本习惯用法。然而，我们发现，布局已使用不一致的术语和混乱，从以前的研究是支离破碎的教训。我们的研究目标是从以前的研究中提炼出一个一致的和可重用的框架。我们回顾了127篇研究论文，其中包括15篇采用比较布局的定量用户研究论文。我们首先通过建议清晰的术语（例如，图表式和项目式并置）。然后，我们确定了比较布局的各个方面，如在现实世界中使用每种布局的优势和问题，以及研究人员克服这些问题的方法。在Gleicher等人的初步见解的基础上建立我们的知识。的调查，我们详细阐述了相关的经验证据，我们从我们的调查（例如，布局在不同研究设置中的实际有效性）并识别原始工作没有覆盖的新颖方面（例如，人们对布局的熟悉度）。最后，我们展示了比较布局的性能上的一致和矛盾的结果，并通过提出权衡和七个可操作的指导方针，为使用布局提供了实际意义。
英文摘要：
We present a systematic review on three comparative layouts (i.e., juxtaposition, superposition, and explicit-encoding) which are information visualization (InfoVis) layouts designed to support comparison tasks. For the last decade, these layouts have served as fundamental idioms in designing many visualization systems. However, we found that the layouts have been used with inconsistent terms and confusion, and the lessons from previous studies are fragmented. The goal of our research is to distill the results from previous studies into a consistent and reusable framework. We review 127 research papers, including 15 papers with quantitative user studies, which employed comparative layouts. We first alleviate the ambiguous boundaries in the design space of comparative layouts by suggesting lucid terminology (e.g., chart-wise and item-wise juxtaposition). We then identify the diverse aspects of comparative layouts, such as the advantages and concerns of using each layout in the real-world scenarios and researchers' approaches to overcome the concerns. Building our knowledge on top of the initial insights gained from the Gleicher et al.'s survey, we elaborate on relevant empirical evidence that we distilled from our survey (e.g., the actual effectiveness of the layouts in different study settings) and identify novel facets that the original work did not cover (e.g., the familiarity of the layouts to people). Finally, we show the consistent and contradictory results on the performance of comparative layouts and offer practical implications for using the layouts by suggesting trade-offs and seven actionable guidelines.
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