The Stardinates are a novel interactive Information Visualization (InfoVis) technique which aims at visualizing highly structured data. They represent some Gestalt principles very well, especially the principles of Closure and ?Pr?gnanz?. As a consequence, Stardinates form very distinct and memorable patterns which make abstraction and aggregation much easier. We give a formal description of the Stardinates as a basis for implementation. Furthermore, we show an application by visualizing psychotherapeutic data derived from a clinical study on anorectic girls.
Citation:
Monika Lanzenberger, Silvia Miksch, Margit Pohl, "The Stardinates - Visualizing Highly Structured Data," iv, pp.47, Seventh International Conference on Information Visualization (IV'03), 2003