Influence Explorer

Last revision: 02/11/2008, G. Waloszek

Influence Explorer

Influence Explorer - Setting secifications on performance

Figures from Tweedy et al. (1996)

 

Purpose

The Influence Explorer is an interactive visualization tool to support engineering design. It is a tool appropriate for any design problem in which performances can be computed from a knowledge of parameter values.

The authors (1995): Interactive visualization allows the fluent exploration of the effect of parameters upon performances and, thereby, the acquisition of insight, a valuable commodity in any design situation.

Applications

Visualization tool for any design problem in which performances can be computed from a knowledge of parameter values.

See also the Attribute Explorer.

Authors, Date

Robert Spence, Lisa Tweedie; 1995-96

Links, Papers

  • Tweedie, L., Spence, R., Dawkes, H., & Su, H. (1996). The Influence Explorer. ACM, Proceedings of CHI '95 (interactive poster; PDF in ACM portal)
  • Tweedie, L., Spence, R., Dawkes, H., & Su, H. (1996). Externalizing abstract mathematical models. ACM, Proceedings CHI '96, pp. 406-412.
  • Tweedie, L., Spence, R., Dawkes, H., & Su, H. (1996). The Influence Explorer (video) – a tool for design. ACM, CHI '96.
  • Robert Spence (2007). Information Visualization (2nd Edition). Prentice-Hall (Pearson).
  • Robert Spence (2002). Sensitivity encoding to support information space navigation:a design guideline. Information Visualization, 1(2), pp. 120-120 (HTML)
  • Robert Spence's Website (last updated 2002)