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Simon Stusak, Aurélien Tabard, Andreas Butz
Can Physical Visualizations Support Analytical Tasks?
In Poster Abstracts of IEEE VIS 2013. Atlanta, Georgia, USA, October 13-18 2013.

While physical objects have been used to represent information for a long time, physical visualizations only recently started to attract attention from the InfoVis and HCI communities. In this article we present our early experiments in designing physical visualizations for supporting data analysis. Based on Amars taxonomy of analytical tasks we show that physical visualizations can support a number of analytical activities but that further research is needed to support all activities. Based on our analysis, we propose promising directions for future research.