Guidelines for Information Visualization Design: Extending the Plain Language

• Rodrigo Oliveira UFRJ
• Claudia Cappelli UERJ
• Jonice Oliveira UFRJ

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wcge.2021.15994

Abstract

Citizen Language is a technique that seeks to improve the understanding of texts through a set of practices. However, there are no specific guidelines to improve understanding of data. We publish here a proposal to complement the practices of Citizen Language with specific elements for this purpose. A set of guidelines selected with the methodological rigor of a literature review in the area of information visualization. The objective is to support the non-specialist developer in the production of more efficient views, whether for reports or public portals of published data and thus contributing to the citizen's understanding.

Keywords: Plain Language, Information Visualization, Understandability

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