Portuguese Cultural Leisure Time Visualization

The Portuguese Cultural Leisure Time Visualization project aimed to show how people have been spending their leisure time, in cultural terms. Through the use of different data visualization and interaction techniques, data series between 1994 and 2009 are displayed to the end-user. The visual representation is based on simple and regular shapes allowing a straightforward and an easy interpretation of data by a varied potential of end-users profile. The goal is to leverage the end-user’s visual system through the use of well-balanced and conjugated simple visualization techniques, increasing the tuning to spot trends, patterns and outliers. This article describes all the steps followed to design, implement and evaluate the Portuguese Cultural Leisure Time Visualization Project. Index Terms — Graphics, Information Visualization, Computer Graphics, Art, User-centered Design.