Nuwa: An Authoring Tool for Graph Visualizations

Dongming Han; Haiyang Zhu; Wei Chen; Jiacheng Pan; Ran Chen; Xumeng Wang; Zhen Wen; Luoxuan Weng; Minfeng Zhu; Yingcai Wu; Rudiger Westermann

doi:10.1109/PacificVis60374.2024.00024

Nuwa: An Authoring Tool for Graph Visualizations

Dongming Han, Haiyang Zhu, Wei Chen, Jiacheng Pan, Ran Chen, Xumeng Wang, Zhen Wen, Luoxuan Weng, Minfeng Zhu, Yingcai Wu, Rudiger Westermann

Informatics 15 - Chair of Computer Graphics and Visualization

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Abstract

Authoring graph visualization requires advanced programming skills, expert domain knowledge, and significant workload. Existing authoring tools either support limited templates of graph visualization, or suffer from a high learning cost. We analyze the design requirements on a tool for graph visualizations, and contribute Nuwa, a user-friendly declarative authoring tool for the interactive specification of graph visualizations in terms of data, entity, change, and encoding. Our implementation empowers users to conveniently create, compare, and modulate comprehensive graph visualizations with a wide range of styles. We showcase various examples to verify the expressiveness of Nuwa. Via an expert interview and the analysis on cognitive dimensions we evaluate the usability of Nuwa.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2024 IEEE 17th Pacific Visualization Conference, PacificVis 2024
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	142-151
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9798350393804
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PacificVis60374.2024.00024
State	Published - 2024
Event	17th IEEE Pacific Visualization Conference, PacificVis 2024 - Tokyo, Japan Duration: 23 Apr 2024 → 26 Apr 2024

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Name	IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium
ISSN (Print)	2165-8765
ISSN (Electronic)	2165-8773

Conference

Conference	17th IEEE Pacific Visualization Conference, PacificVis 2024
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Tokyo
Period	23/04/24 → 26/04/24

Keywords

Authoring tool
Graph visualization

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Han, D., Zhu, H., Chen, W., Pan, J., Chen, R., Wang, X., Wen, Z., Weng, L., Zhu, M., Wu, Y., & Westermann, R. (2024). Nuwa: An Authoring Tool for Graph Visualizations. In Proceedings - 2024 IEEE 17th Pacific Visualization Conference, PacificVis 2024 (pp. 142-151). (IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/PacificVis60374.2024.00024

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