Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  InterSon: Interactive Sonification for Geo-referenced Data Exploration for the Vision Impaired (15 May 2005) The design of InterSon is guided by our Action by Component taxonomy [6] and builds on earlier designs and experimentations [7]. InterSon provides two data views – a table and a map. The table shows multiple statistical attributes simultaneously. Each row corresponds to a region and columns to attributes. Like in most table viewers rows can be sorted, allowing quick locating of low or high values. The map (Fig 1a) shows the geographical distribution of one statistical attribute and can be used to answer geography oriented questions. In each view, users can perform the following actions: start an automatic sweep to obtain a quick overview of the data patterns, navigate the data collection to examine portions of interest, request details of a data item, select interesting data items for later examination, and to seek data items satisfying query criterions by searching and filtering. Users can switch back and forth between the two views which are tightly coupled so that actions in one view are reflected in the other (e.g. selecting, zooming, filtering). Article URL: ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/pub/hcil/Reports-Abstracts-Bibliography/2005-13html/2005-13.htm Read 62 more articles from University Of Maryland sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Multiple Small Maps as an Information Seeking Tool     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy