Manipulable Semantic Components: a Computational Representation of Data Visualization Scenes
<|reference_start|>Manipulable Semantic Components: a Computational Representation of Data Visualization Scenes: Various data visualization applications such as reverse engineering and interactive authoring require a vocabulary that describes the structure of visualization scenes and the procedure to manipulate them. A few scene abstractions have been proposed, but they are restricted to specific applications for a limited set of visualization types. A unified and expressive model of data visualization scenes for different applications has been missing. To fill this gap, we present Manipulable Semantic Components (MSC), a computational representation of data visualization scenes, to support applications in scene understanding and augmentation. MSC consists of two parts: a unified object model describing the structure of a visualization scene in terms of semantic components, and a set of operations to generate and modify the scene components. We demonstrate the benefits of MSC in three applications: visualization authoring, visualization deconstruction and reuse, and animation specification.<|reference_end|>
@article{liu2024manipulable,
    title={Manipulable Semantic Components: a Computational Representation of Data
  Visualization Scenes},
    author={Zhicheng Liu, Chen Chen, John Hooker},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.04798},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2408.04798},
    primaryClass={cs.HC}
}