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@article{Elmqvist2011, title={Fluid Interaction for Information Visualization}, author={Niklas Elmqvist and Andrew Vande Moere and Hans-Christian Jetter and Daniel Cernea and Harald Reiterer and T.J. Jankun-Kelly}, url={http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~elm/projects/fluidity/fluidity.pdf}, year={2011}, date={2011-01-01}, journal={Information Visualization}, volume={10}, number={4}, pages={327-340}, abstract={Despite typically receiving little emphasis in visualization research, interaction in visualization is the catalyst for the user's dialogue with the data, and, ultimately, the user’s actual understanding and insight into this data. There are many possible reasons for this skewed balance between the visual and interactive aspects of a visualization. One reason is that interaction is an intangible concept that is difficult to design, quantify, and evaluate. Unlike for visual design, there are few examples that show visualization practitioners and researchers how to best design the interaction for a new visualization. In this paper, we attempt to address this issue by collecting examples of visualizations with "best-in-class" interaction and using them to extract practical design guidelines for future designers and researchers. We call this concept fluid interaction, and we propose an operational definition in terms of the direct manipulation and embodied interaction paradigms, the psychological concept of "flow", and Norman’s gulfs of execution and evaluation.}, keywords={}, }