%0 Conference Paper %B Proceedings of the 2006 AVI workshop on BEyond time and errors: novel evaluation methods for information visualization %D 2006 %T Task taxonomy for graph visualization %A Lee,Bongshin %A Plaisant, Catherine %A Parr,Cynthia Sims %A Fekete,Jean-Daniel %A Henry,Nathalie %K Evaluation %K graph visualization %K task taxonomy %X Our goal is to define a list of tasks for graph visualization that has enough detail and specificity to be useful to: 1) designers who want to improve their system and 2) to evaluators who want to compare graph visualization systems. In this paper, we suggest a list of tasks we believe are commonly encountered while analyzing graph data. We define graph specific objects and demonstrate how all complex tasks could be seen as a series of low-level tasks performed on those objects. We believe that our taxonomy, associated with benchmark datasets and specific tasks, would help evaluators generalize results collected through a series of controlled experiments. %B Proceedings of the 2006 AVI workshop on BEyond time and errors: novel evaluation methods for information visualization %S BELIV '06 %I ACM %C New York, NY, USA %P 1 - 5 %8 2006/// %@ 1-59593-562-2 %G eng %U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1168149.1168168 %R 10.1145/1168149.1168168