TAT: Toughening the Foundation of Abstraction in Visualization Techniques

Jian Chen (1) , Min Chen (2) , Siming Chen (3) , Seok-Hee Hong (4) , Weidong Huang (5) , Tobias Isenberg (6) , Karsten Klein (7) , Torsten Möller (8) , Guido Reina (9) , Puripant Ruchikachorn (10) , Michael Schwärzler (11) , Ivan Viola (12) , Yong Wang (13) , Lingyun Yu (14) , Xiaoru Yuan (15)

1 OSU - Ohio State University [Columbus]
2 University of Oxford
3 Fudan University [Shanghai]
4 The University of Sydney
5 UTS - University of Technology Sydney
6 AVIZ - Analysis and Visualization
7 Universität Konstanz
8 University of Vienna [Vienna]
9 University of Stuttgart
10 Chulalongkorn University [Bangkok]
11 Takeda - Pharmaceutical Sciences
12 KAUST - King Abdullah University of Science and Technology [Saudi Arabia]
13 SIS - Singapore Management University
14 XJTLU - Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
15 Peking University [Beijing]

In this meeting we discussed the concept of visual abstraction in visualization. Abstraction is essential to the field yet we have been using the term "abstraction" largely by intuition. Based on presentations from representatives from the field that cover a large variety of backgrounds and research focuses, in the meeting we worked toward a formalized understanding of the concept to better clarify its theory, its potential, and its uses.

Domains: Computer Science [cs]

Jian Chen, Min Chen, Siming Chen, Seok-Hee Hong, Weidong Huang, et al.. TAT: Toughening the Foundation of Abstraction in Visualization Techniques: NII Shonan Meeting Report. Hsiang-Yun Wu; Tobias Isenberg; Ivan Viola; Xiaoru Yuan. NII Shonan Meetings, Sep 2023, Shonan, Japan. ⟨hal-04325828⟩