Chro-Ring: a time-oriented visual approach to represent writer’s history

Personal histories of ancient Chinese writers have attracted many people. This kind of information is always in the form of obscure texts and the multiple facets are interrelated, so learning personal history in a traditional way is time-consuming. Fortunately, information visualization technique can help us with the problem. To clearly present time-oriented information visually about a famous writer to users, we propose Chro-Ring, a visualization system for representing faceted temporal data. It is time-oriented and displays multiple facets of personal information using multiple visualization views with a delicate layout. We implemented it in a scenario and conducted a user study to evaluate its effectiveness.

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