This study proposes an exploration tool for users' intuitive understanding of visual metaphor processes in sentiment visualization cases. To create the exploration tool, we conducted the following procedure 1) Extract sentences about visual metaphor and use 'Target, Intermediation, Representation, Visual Variables, Visualization Technique' as a taxonomy to analyze metaphor processes in the collected cases. 2) Create Network to suggest the relationship between representation and intermediation. 3) Utilize Sankey Diagram to perceive the frequent metaphor process patterns in stages.
This research was supported by the MIST(Ministry of Science, ICT), Korea, under the National Program for Excellence in SW), supervised by the IITP(Institute of Information & communications Technology Planning & Evaluation) in 2022(2022-0-01077).
