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UniStuttgart-VISUS / damast

Code for the DH project "Dhimmis & Muslims – Analysing Multireligious Spaces in the Medieval Muslim World" (VolkswagenFoundation)
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interaction "with" steps #110

Closed tutebatti closed 2 years ago

tutebatti commented 2 years ago

Going trough the section "Terminology and Principles" in the visualization documentation, there arose the question if one can speak of an interaction "with" the steps as explained in the first section. We are not sure if this is regular terminology.

mfranke93 commented 2 years ago

It is how we talk about it in InfoVis, and how we phrase it. The steps are, in general, some kind of computer program transforming the data (first from unstructured to structured, then to abstract geometrical primitives, then to concrete representations (like colored pixels)). Interacting with the steps means (implicitly or explicitly) modifying the parameters or configuration of the program that handles the step.

For example, switching from clustered to unclustered mode in our visualization means that you interact with the data transformation step primarily, because the spatial aggregation is removed. But as a consequence of a different visual representation (the smaller circles without the symbols), the visual mapping changes as well, so there is an interaction with that step as well.

tutebatti commented 2 years ago

Hm... I thought so already but have rephrased that anyway (such as "interaction regarding step xyz"), because it is pretty counter-intuitive for outsiders to the field. If my rephrasing distorts the meaning, you should, of course, correct that.

mfranke93 commented 2 years ago

See my comment in the commit. I will have to rework that a bit anyways.