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| Author(s): |
Luís Felipe Carli Lucas de Oliveira
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU/SBI) |
| Defense date: | 2015-09-21 |
| Examining board members: |
Carlos Roberto Zibel Costa;
Gil Garcia de Barros;
Daniela Kutschat Hanns;
Ricardo Nakamura;
Caio Adorno Vassão
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| Advisor: | Carlos Roberto Zibel Costa |
| Abstract | |
In this thesis, we understand design as a creative process of searching for solutions to complex and ill-defined problems. Design is the act of search for good solutions in spaces containing several possible solutions. The design of visualizations is the development of visual metaphors for abstract data, is the transformation of data in interactive graphics. Visualizations are intended to assist the cognitive processes of understanding information and to make more efficient and effective the execution of tasks involving data. The complexity of visualization design is both in the impossibility of reducing their problems as in the extent and range of the data. To address this complexity, the designer performs a reflective conversation with project externalizations. These external representations can act as intermediary entities for the project when they are not a description of the problem or the representation of a solution, but rather an entity that operates between these spaces. The three main activities in the development of visualizations are the understanding, the transformation and the graphical mapping of the data. Data Transformation is an active component in visualization design because many of the decisions taken on the graphic marks depend on the processing and transformation of data. We propose that the use of graphical representations of data structures, when addressed as intermediary entities project, can assist in the process of data visualization design, helping to address its complexity and to produce better solutions for visualization problems. The externalization of the representation of data structures creates a support material for memory and reasoning, which helps in understanding these structures. In addressing these representations as intermediary project entities, you can treat them as materials that support definition, understanding and navigation of the possibilities of a project space. They become representations that help in understanding the possible solutions of visualization and the means to achieve them. In this thesis, we defend this proposition through a theoretical foundation and the development and implementation of a data structure representation technique. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/10295-5 - Computer programming applied to the information visualization graphic design process through the representation and operation of drawings instructions |
| Grantee: | Luis Felipe Carli Lucas de Oliveira |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate (Direct) |