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EuroVis | 2,016 | Visibility Equalizer Cutaway Visualization of Mesoscopic Biological Models | 10.1111/cgf.12892 | In scientific illustrations and visualization, cutaway views are often employed as an effective technique for occlusion management in densely packed scenes. We propose a novel method for authoring cutaway illustrations of mesoscopic biological models. In contrast to the existing cutaway algorithms, we take advantage of... | false | false | [
"Mathieu Le Muzic",
"Peter Mindek",
"Johannes Sorger",
"Ludovic Autin",
"David S. Goodsell",
"Ivan Viola"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,016 | Visual Analysis of Biomolecular Cavities: State of the Art | 10.1111/cgf.12928 | In this report we review and structure the branch of molecular visualization that is concerned with the visual analysis of cavities in macromolecular protein structures. First the necessary background, the domain terminology, and the goals of analytical reasoning are introduced. Based on a comprehensive collection of r... | false | false | [
"Michael Krone",
"Barbora Kozlíková",
"Norbert Lindow",
"Marc Baaden",
"Daniel Baum",
"Július Parulek",
"Hans-Christian Hege",
"Ivan Viola"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,016 | Visual Analysis of Defects in Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymers for 4DCT Interrupted In situ Tests | 10.1111/cgf.12896 | Material engineers use interrupted in situ tensile testing to investigate the damage mechanisms in composite materials. For each subsequent scan, the load is incrementally increased until the specimen is completely fractured. During the interrupted in situ testing of glass fiber reinforced polymers (GFRPs) defects of f... | false | false | [
"Alexander Amirkhanov",
"Artem Amirkhanov",
"Dietmar Salaberger",
"Johann Kastner",
"M. Eduard Gröller",
"Christoph Heinzl"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,016 | Visual Analysis of Governing Topological Structures in Excitable Network Dynamics | 10.1111/cgf.12906 | To understand how topology shapes the dynamics in excitable networks is one of the fundamental problems in network science when applied to computational systems biology and neuroscience. Recent advances in the field discovered the influential role of two macroscopic topological structures, namely hubs and modules. We p... | false | false | [
"Quynh Quang Ngo",
"Marc-Thorsten Hütt",
"Lars Linsen"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,016 | Visual Analysis of Spatial Variability and Global Correlations in Ensembles of Iso-Contours | 10.1111/cgf.12898 | For an ensemble of iso‐contours in multi‐dimensional scalar fields, we present new methods to a) visualize their dominant spatial patterns of variability, and b) to compute the conditional probability of the occurrence of a contour at one location given the occurrence at some other location. We first show how to derive... | false | false | [
"Florian Ferstl",
"Mathias Kanzler",
"Marc Rautenhaus",
"Rüdiger Westermann"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,016 | Visual Analysis of Tumor Control Models for Prediction of Radiotherapy Response | 10.1111/cgf.12899 | In radiotherapy, tumors are irradiated with a high dose, while surrounding healthy tissues are spared. To quantify the probability that a tumor is effectively treated with a given dose, statistical models were built and employed in clinical research. These are called tumor control probability (TCP) models. Recently, TC... | false | false | [
"Renata Georgia Raidou",
"Oscar Casares-Magaz",
"Ludvig P. Muren",
"Uulke A. van der Heide",
"Jarle Rørvik",
"Marcel Breeuwer",
"Anna Vilanova Bartrolí"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,016 | Visual Debugging Techniques for Reactive Data Visualization | 10.1111/cgf.12903 | Interaction is critical to effective visualization, but can be difficult to author and debug due to dependencies among input events, program state, and visual output. Recent advances leverage reactive semantics to support declarative design and avoid the “spaghetti code” of imperative event handlers. While reactive pro... | false | false | [
"Jane Hoffswell",
"Arvind Satyanarayan",
"Jeffrey Heer"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,016 | Visualizing Co-occurrence of Events in Populations of Viral Genome Sequences | 10.1111/cgf.12891 | Virologists are not only interested in point mutations in a genome, but also in relationships between mutations. In this work, we present a design study to support the discovery of correlated mutation events (called co‐occurrences) in populations of viral genomes. The key challenge is to identify potentially interestin... | false | false | [
"Alper Sarikaya",
"M. Correli",
"Joao M. Dinis",
"David H. O'Connor",
"Michael Gleicher"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,016 | Visualizing the Impact of Geographical Variations on Multivariate Clustering | 10.1111/cgf.12886 | Traditional multivariate clustering approaches are common in many geovisualization applications. These algorithms are used to define geodemographic profiles, ecosystems and various other land use patterns that are based on multivariate measures. Cluster labels are then projected onto a choropleth map to enable analysts... | false | false | [
"Yifan Zhang 0007",
"Wei Luo",
"Elizabeth A. Mack",
"Ross Maciejewski"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | 'A bit like British Weather, I suppose': Design and Evaluation of the Temperature Calendar | 10.1145/2858036.2858367 | In this paper we present the design and evaluation of the Temperature Calendar -- a visualization of temperature variation within a workplace over the course of the past week. This highlights deviation from organizational temperature policy, and aims to bring staff "into the loop" of understanding and managing heating,... | false | false | [
"Enrico Costanza",
"Ben Bedwell",
"Michael O. Jewell",
"James A. Colley",
"Tom Rodden"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | A Comparative Evaluation on Online Learning Approaches using Parallel Coordinate Visualization | 10.1145/2858036.2858101 | As visualizations are increasingly used as a storytelling medium for the general public, it becomes important to help people learn how to understand visualizations. Prior studies indicate that interactive multimedia learning environments can increase the effectiveness of learning [11]. To investigate the efficacy of th... | false | false | [
"Bum Chul Kwon",
"Bongshin Lee"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | A Comparison of Cooperative and Competitive Visualizations for Co-located Collaboration | 10.1145/2858036.2858072 | We present a study that investigates the influence of different types of visualizations on collaboration. The visualizations present the group's performance either in a more cooperative or more competitive way. Decades of research suggest that cooperation leads to greater productivity than competition. However, most of... | false | false | [
"Sarah Tausch",
"Stephanie Ta",
"Heinrich Hussmann"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | AniSAM & AniAvatar: Animated Visualizations of Affective States | 10.1145/2858036.2858365 | Tools that provide visual feedback about emotions to the user in the form of an avatar or an emoticon have become increasingly important. While a great deal of effort has already been put into the reliable and accurate automatic detection of emotions, only very little is known about how this information about affective... | false | false | [
"Andreas Sonderegger",
"Klaus Heyden",
"Alain Chavaillaz",
"Jürgen S. Sauer"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | Augmenting the Field-of-View of Head-Mounted Displays with Sparse Peripheral Displays | 10.1145/2858036.2858212 | In this paper, we explore the concept of a sparse peripheral display, which augments the field-of-view of a head-mounted display with a lightweight, low-resolution, inexpensively produced array of LEDs surrounding the central high-resolution display. We show that sparse peripheral displays expand the available field-of... | false | false | [
"Robert Xiao",
"Hrvoje Benko"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | Can Eye Help You?: Effects of Visualizing Eye Fixations on Remote Collaboration Scenarios for Physical Tasks | 10.1145/2858036.2858438 | In this work, we investigate how remote collaboration between a local worker and a remote collaborator will change if eye fixations of the collaborator are presented to the worker. We track the collaborator's points of gaze on a monitor screen displaying a physical workspace and visualize them onto the space by a proje... | false | false | [
"Keita Higuchi",
"Ryo Yonetani",
"Yoichi Sato"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | Chronicler: Interactive Exploration of Source Code History | 10.1145/2858036.2858442 | Exploring source code history is an important task for software maintenance. Traditionally, source code history is navigated on the granularity of individual files. This is not fine-grained enough to support users in exploring the evolution of individual code elements. We suggest to consider the history of individual e... | false | false | [
"Moritz Wittenhagen",
"Christian Cherek",
"Jan O. Borchers"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | ChronoFab: Fabricating Motion | 10.1145/2858036.2858138 | We present ChronoFab, a 3D modeling tool to craft motion sculptures, tangible representations of 3D animated models, visualizing an object's motion with static, transient, ephemeral visuals that are left behind. Our tool casts 3D modeling as a dynamic art-form by employing 3D animation and dynamic simulation for the mo... | false | false | [
"Rubaiat Habib Kazi",
"Tovi Grossman",
"Cory Mogk",
"Ryan M. Schmidt",
"George W. Fitzmaurice"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | Egocentric Analysis of Dynamic Networks with EgoLines | 10.1145/2858036.2858488 | The egocentric analysis of dynamic networks focuses on discovering the temporal patterns of a subnetwork around a specific central actor (i.e., an ego-network). These types of analyses are useful in many application domains, such as social science and business intelligence, providing insights about how the central acto... | false | false | [
"Jian Zhao 0010",
"Michael Glueck",
"Fanny Chevalier",
"Yanhong Wu",
"Azam Khan"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | Enhancing Cross-Device Interaction Scripting with Interactive Illustrations | 10.1145/2858036.2858382 | Cross-device interactions involve input and output on multiple computing devices. Implementing and reasoning about interactions that cover multiple devices with a diversity of form factors and capabilities can be complex. To assist developers in programming cross-device interactions, we created DemoScript, a technique ... | false | false | [
"Pei-Yu (Peggy) Chi",
"Yang Li 0058",
"Björn Hartmann"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | Evaluating Information Visualization via the Interplay of Heuristic Evaluation and Question-Based Scoring | 10.1145/2858036.2858280 | In an instructional setting it can be difficult to accurately assess the quality of information visualizations of several variables. Instead of a standard design critique, an alternative is to ask potential readers of the chart to answer questions about it. A controlled study with 47 participants shows a good correlati... | false | false | [
"Marti A. Hearst",
"Paul Laskowski",
"Luis Silva"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | Evaluating the Paper-to-Screen Translation of Participant-Aided Sociograms with High-Risk Participants | 10.1145/2858036.2858368 | While much social network data exists online, key network metrics for high-risk populations must still be captured through self-report. This practice has suffered from numerous limitations in workflow and response burden. However, advances in technology, network drawing libraries and databases are making interactive ne... | false | false | [
"Bernie Hogan",
"Joshua R. Melville",
"Gregory Lee Phillips II",
"Patrick Janulis",
"Noshir Contractor",
"Brian S. Mustanski",
"Michelle Birkett"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | Fast, Cheap, and Good: Why Animated GIFs Engage Us | 10.1145/2858036.2858532 | Animated GIFs have been around since 1987 and recently gained more popularity on social networking sites. Tumblr, a large social networking and micro blogging platform, is a popular venue to share animated GIFs. Tumblr users follow blogs, generating a feed or posts, and choose to "like' or to "reblog' favored posts. In... | false | false | [
"Saeideh Bakhshi",
"David A. Shamma",
"Lyndon Kennedy",
"Yale Song",
"Paloma de Juan",
"Joseph Jofish Kaye"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | Gaze Augmentation in Egocentric Video Improves Awareness of Intention | 10.1145/2858036.2858127 | Video communication using head-mounted cameras could be useful to mediate shared activities and support collaboration. Growing popularity of wearable gaze trackers presents an opportunity to add gaze information on the egocentric video. We hypothesized three potential benefits of gaze-augmented egocentric video to supp... | false | false | [
"Deepak Akkil",
"Poika Isokoski"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | Glowworms and Fireflies: Ambient Light on Large Interactive Surfaces | 10.1145/2858036.2858524 | Ambient light is starting to be commercially used to enhance the viewing experience for watching TV. We believe that ambient light can add value in meeting and control rooms that use large vertical interactive surfaces. Therefore, we equipped a large interactive whiteboard with a peripheral ambient light display and ex... | false | false | [
"Florian Perteneder",
"Eva-Maria Beatrix Grossauer",
"Joanne Leong",
"Wolfgang Stuerzlinger",
"Michael Haller"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | HapTurk: Crowdsourcing Affective Ratings of Vibrotactile Icons | 10.1145/2858036.2858279 | Vibrotactile (VT) display is becoming a standard component of informative user experience, where notifications and feedback must convey information eyes-free. However, effective design is hindered by incomplete understanding of relevant perceptual qualities, together with the need for user feedback to be accessed in-si... | false | false | [
"Oliver S. Schneider",
"Hasti Seifi",
"Salma Kashani",
"Matthew Chun",
"Karon E. MacLean"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | I Know Where You Live: Inferring Details of People's Lives by Visualizing Publicly Shared Location Data | 10.1145/2858036.2858272 | This research measures human performance in inferring the functional types (i.e., home, work, leisure and transport) of locations in geo-location data using different visual representations of the data (textual, static and animated visualizations) along with different amounts of data (1, 3 or 5 day(s)). We first collec... | false | false | [
"Ilaria Liccardi",
"Alfie Abdul-Rahman",
"Min Chen 0001"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | Infrastructure in the Wild: What Mapping in Post-Earthquake Nepal Reveals about Infrastructural Emergence | 10.1145/2858036.2858545 | Disasters and their impacts have unavoidable spatial characteristics. As such, maps are necessary and omnipresent features of the information landscapes that surround and support disaster response. Professional and volunteer GIS services are increasingly in demand to support map-based information visualization during c... | false | false | [
"Robert Soden",
"Leysia Palen"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | Integrating the Smart Home into the Digital Calendar | 10.1145/2858036.2858168 | With the growing adoption of smart home technologies, inhabitants are faced with the challenge of making sense of the data that their homes can collect to configure automated behaviors that benefit their routines. Current commercial smart home interfaces usually provide information on individual devices instead of a mo... | false | false | [
"Sarah Mennicken",
"David Kim",
"Elaine May Huang"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | Interacting with Predictions: Visual Inspection of Black-box Machine Learning Models | 10.1145/2858036.2858529 | Understanding predictive models, in terms of interpreting and identifying actionable insights, is a challenging task. Often the importance of a feature in a model is only a rough estimate condensed into one number. However, our research goes beyond these naïve estimates through the design and implementation of an inter... | false | false | [
"Josua Krause",
"Adam Perer",
"Kenney Ng"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | Investigating Effects of Post-Selection Feedback for Acquiring Ultra-Small Targets on Touchscreen | 10.1145/2858036.2858593 | In this paper, we investigate the effects of post-selection feedback for acquiring ultra-small (2-4mm) targets on touchscreens. Post-selection feedback shows the contact point on touchscreen after a user lifts his/her fingers to increase users' awareness of touching. Three experiments are conducted progressively using ... | false | false | [
"Chun Yu",
"Hongyi Wen",
"Wei Xiong",
"Xiaojun Bi 0001",
"Yuanchun Shi"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | Investigating Time Series Visualisations to Improve the User Experience | 10.1145/2858036.2858300 | Research on graphical perception of time series visualisations has focused on visual representation, and not on interaction. Even for visual representation, there has been limited study of the impact on users of visual encodings and the strengths and weaknesses of Cartesian and Polar coordinate systems. In order to add... | false | false | [
"Muhammad Adnan 0001",
"Mike Just",
"Lynne Baillie"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | iVoLVER: Interactive Visual Language for Visualization Extraction and Reconstruction | 10.1145/2858036.2858435 | We present the design and implementation of iVoLVER, a tool that allows users to create visualizations without textual programming. iVoLVER is designed to enable flexible acquisition of many types of data (text, colors, shapes, quantities, dates) from multiple source types (bitmap charts, webpages, photographs, SVGs, C... | false | false | [
"Gonzalo Gabriel Méndez",
"Miguel A. Nacenta",
"Sebastien Vandenheste"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | Look Before You Leap: Improving the Users' Ability to Detect Fraud in Electronic Marketplaces | 10.1145/2858036.2858555 | Reputation systems in current electronic marketplaces can easily be manipulated by malicious sellers in order to appear more reputable than appropriate. We conducted a controlled experiment with 40 UK and 41 German participants on their ability to detect malicious behavior by means of an eBay-like feedback profile vers... | false | false | [
"Johannes Sänger",
"Norman Hänsch",
"Brian Glass",
"Zinaida Benenson",
"Robert Landwirth",
"M. Angela Sasse"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | Making Sense of Temporal Queries with Interactive Visualization | 10.1145/2858036.2858408 | As real-time monitoring and analysis become increasingly important, researchers and developers turn to data stream management systems (DSMS's) for fast, efficient ways to pose temporal queries over their datasets. However, these systems are inherently complex, and even database experts find it difficult to understand t... | false | false | [
"Leilani Battle",
"Danyel Fisher",
"Robert DeLine",
"Mike Barnett 0001",
"Badrish Chandramouli",
"Jonathan Goldstein"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | MyPart: Personal, Portable, Accurate, Airborne Particle Counting | 10.1145/2858036.2858571 | In 2012, air pollution in both cities and rural areas was estimated to have caused 3.7 million premature deaths, 88% of those in at risk communities. The primary pollutant was small airborne particulate matter of 10 microns or less in diameter which led to the development of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. In ... | false | false | [
"Rundong Tian",
"Christine Dierk",
"Christopher Myers",
"Eric Paulos"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | Personalized Compass: A Compact Visualization for Direction and Location | 10.1145/2858036.2858068 | Maps on mobile/wearable devices often make it difficult to determine the location of a point of interest (POI). For example, a POI may exist outside the map or on a background with no meaningful cues. To address this issue, we present Personalized Compass, a self-contained compact graphical location indicator. Personal... | false | false | [
"Daniel Miau",
"Steven Feiner"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | Physikit: Data Engagement Through Physical Ambient Visualizations in the Home | 10.1145/2858036.2858059 | Internet of things (IoT) devices and sensor kits have the potential to democratize the access, use, and appropriation of data. Despite the increased availability of low cost sensors, most of the produced data is "black box" in nature: users often do not know how to access or interpret data. We propose a "human-data des... | false | false | [
"Steven Houben",
"Connie Golsteijn",
"Sarah Gallacher",
"Rose Johnson",
"Saskia Bakker",
"Nicolai Marquardt",
"Licia Capra",
"Yvonne Rogers"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | Programming, Problem Solving, and Self-Awareness: Effects of Explicit Guidance | 10.1145/2858036.2858252 | More people are learning to code than ever, but most learning opportunities do not explicitly teach the problem solving skills necessary to succeed at open-ended programming problems. In this paper, we present a new approach to impart these skills, consisting of: 1) explicit instruction on programming problem solving, ... | false | false | [
"Dastyni Loksa",
"Amy J. Ko",
"Will Jernigan",
"Alannah Oleson",
"Christopher J. Mendez",
"Margaret M. Burnett"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | ResViz: Politics and Design Issues in Visualizing Academic Metrics | 10.1145/2858036.2858181 | The use of data and metrics on a professional and personal level has led to considerable discourse around the performative power and politics of 'big data' and data visualization, with academia being no exception. We have developed a university system, ResViz, which publicly visualizes the externally funded research pr... | false | false | [
"Chris Elsden",
"Sebastian Mellor",
"Patrick Olivier",
"Pete Wheldon",
"David S. Kirk",
"Rob Comber"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | SnapToReality: Aligning Augmented Reality to the Real World | 10.1145/2858036.2858250 | Augmented Reality (AR) applications may require the precise alignment of virtual objects to the real world. We propose automatic alignment of virtual objects to physical constraints calculated from the real world in real time ("snapping to reality"). We demonstrate SnapToReality alignment techniques that allow users to... | false | false | [
"Benjamin Nuernberger",
"Eyal Ofek",
"Hrvoje Benko",
"Andrew D. Wilson"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | Supporting Comment Moderators in Identifying High Quality Online News Comments | 10.1145/2858036.2858389 | Online comments submitted by readers of news articles can provide valuable feedback and critique, personal views and perspectives, and opportunities for discussion. The varying quality of these comments necessitates that publishers remove the low quality ones, but there is also a growing awareness that by identifying a... | false | false | [
"Deokgun Park 0001",
"Simranjit Singh Sachar",
"Nicholas Diakopoulos",
"Niklas Elmqvist"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | Taking 5: Work-Breaks, Productivity, and Opportunities for Personal Informatics for Knowledge Workers | 10.1145/2858036.2858066 | Taking breaks from work is an essential and universal practice. In this paper, we extend current research on productivity in the workplace to consider the break habits of knowledge workers and explore opportunities of break logging for personal informatics. We report on three studies. Through a survey of 147 U.S.-based... | false | false | [
"Daniel A. Epstein",
"Daniel Avrahami",
"Jacob T. Biehl"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | Telling Stories about Dynamic Networks with Graph Comics | 10.1145/2858036.2858387 | In this paper, we explore graph comics as a medium to communicate changes in dynamic networks. While previous re- search has focused on visualizing dynamic networks for data exploration, we want to see if we can take advantage of the visual expressiveness and familiarity of comics to present and explain temporal change... | false | false | [
"Benjamin Bach",
"Natalie Kerracher",
"Kyle Wm. Hall",
"Sheelagh Carpendale",
"Jessie Kennedy",
"Nathalie Henry Riche"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | The Effect of Richer Visualizations on Code Comprehension | 10.1145/2858036.2858372 | Researchers often introduce visual tools to programming environments in order to facilitate program comprehension, reduce navigation times, and help developers answer difficult questions. Syntax highlighting is the main visual lens through which developers perceive their code, and yet its effects and the effects of ric... | false | false | [
"Dimitar Asenov",
"Otmar Hilliges",
"Peter Müller 0001"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | Unsupervised Clickstream Clustering for User Behavior Analysis | 10.1145/2858036.2858107 | Online services are increasingly dependent on user participation. Whether it's online social networks or crowdsourcing services, understanding user behavior is important yet challenging. In this paper, we build an unsupervised system to capture dominating user behaviors from clickstream data (traces of users' click eve... | false | false | [
"Gang Wang 0011",
"Xinyi Zhang",
"Shiliang Tang",
"Haitao Zheng 0001",
"Ben Y. Zhao"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | UX Heatmaps: Mapping User Experience on Visual Interfaces | 10.1145/2858036.2858271 | In this paper, we present an off-the-shelf UX evaluation tool which contextualizes users' physiological and behavioral signals while interacting with a system. The proposed tool triangulates users' gaze data with inferred users' cognitive and emotional states to produce user experience (UX) heatmaps, which show where u... | false | false | [
"Vanessa Georges",
"François Courtemanche",
"Sylvain Senecal",
"Thierry Baccino",
"Marc Fredette",
"Pierre-Majorique Léger"
] | [] | [] | [] |
CHI | 2,016 | When (ish) is My Bus?: User-centered Visualizations of Uncertainty in Everyday, Mobile Predictive Systems | 10.1145/2858036.2858558 | Users often rely on realtime predictions in everyday contexts like riding the bus, but may not grasp that such predictions are subject to uncertainty. Existing uncertainty visualizations may not align with user needs or how they naturally reason about probability. We present a novel mobile interface design and visualiz... | false | false | [
"Matthew Kay 0001",
"Tara Kola",
"Jessica R. Hullman",
"Sean A. Munson"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | 3D Regression Heat Map Analysis of Population Study Data | 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2468291 | Epidemiological studies comprise heterogeneous data about a subject group to define disease-specific risk factors. These data contain information (features) about a subject's lifestyle, medical status as well as medical image data. Statistical regression analysis is used to evaluate these features and to identify featu... | false | false | [
"Paul Klemm",
"Kai Lawonn",
"Sylvia Saalfeld",
"Uli Niemann",
"Katrin Hegenscheid",
"Henry Völzke",
"Bernhard Preim"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | A Case Study Using Visualization Interaction Logs and Insight Metrics to Understand How Analysts Arrive at Insights | 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467613 | We present results from an experiment aimed at using logs of interactions with a visual analytics application to better understand how interactions lead to insight generation. We performed an insight-based user study of a visual analytics application and ran post hoc quantitative analyses of participants' measured insi... | false | false | [
"Hua Guo",
"Steven R. Gomez",
"Caroline Ziemkiewicz",
"David H. Laidlaw"
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VAST | 2,015 | A software developer's guide to informal evaluation of Visual Analytics environments using VAST Challenge information | 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347674 | The VAST Challenge has been a popular venue for academic and industry participants for over ten years. Many participants comment that the majority of their time in preparing VAST Challenge entries is discovering elements in their software environments that need to be redesigned in order to solve the given task. Fortuna... | false | false | [
"Kristin A. Cook",
"Jean Scholtz",
"Mark A. Whiting"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | A System for visual exploration of caution spots from vehicle recorder data | 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347677 | It is vital for the transportation industry, which performs most of its work by automobiles, to reduce its accident rate. This paper proposes a 3D visual interaction method for exploring caution areas from large-scale vehicle recorder data. Our method provides (i) a flexible filtering interface for driving operations s... | false | false | [
"Masahiko Itoh",
"Daisaku Yokoyama",
"Masashi Toyoda",
"Masaru Kitsuregawa"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | An Uncertainty-Aware Approach for Exploratory Microblog Retrieval | 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467554 | Although there has been a great deal of interest in analyzing customer opinions and breaking news in microblogs, progress has been hampered by the lack of an effective mechanism to discover and retrieve data of interest from microblogs. To address this problem, we have developed an uncertainty-aware visual analytics ap... | false | false | [
"Mengchen Liu",
"Shixia Liu",
"Xizhou Zhu",
"Qinying Liao",
"Furu Wei",
"Shimei Pan"
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VAST | 2,015 | BiSet: Semantic Edge Bundling with Biclusters for Sensemaking | 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467813 | Identifying coordinated relationships is an important task in data analytics. For example, an intelligence analyst might want to discover three suspicious people who all visited the same four cities. Existing techniques that display individual relationships, such as between lists of entities, require repetitious manual... | false | false | [
"Maoyuan Sun",
"Peng Mi",
"Chris North 0001",
"Naren Ramakrishnan"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | Characterizing Provenance in Visualization and Data Analysis: An Organizational Framework of Provenance Types and Purposes | 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467551 | While the primary goal of visual analytics research is to improve the quality of insights and findings, a substantial amount of research in provenance has focused on the history of changes and advances throughout the analysis process. The term, provenance, has been used in a variety of ways to describe different types ... | false | false | [
"Eric D. Ragan",
"Alex Endert",
"Jibonananda Sanyal",
"Jian Chen 0006"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | CiteRivers: Visual Analytics of Citation Patterns | 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467621 | The exploration and analysis of scientific literature collections is an important task for effective knowledge management. Past interest in such document sets has spurred the development of numerous visualization approaches for their interactive analysis. They either focus on the textual content of publications, or on ... | false | false | [
"Florian Heimerl",
"Qi Han 0006",
"Steffen Koch 0001",
"Thomas Ertl"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | Collaborative visual analysis with RCloud | 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347627 | Consider the emerging role of data science teams embedded in larger organizations. Individual analysts work on loosely related problems, and must share their findings with each other and the organization at large, moving results from exploratory data analyses (EDA) into automated visualizations, diagnostics and reports... | false | false | [
"Stephen C. North",
"Carlos Scheidegger",
"Simon Urbanek",
"Gordon Woodhull"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | Comparative visual analysis of vector field ensembles | 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347634 | We present a new visual analysis approach to support the comparative exploration of 2D vector-valued ensemble fields. Our approach enables the user to quickly identify the most similar groups of ensemble members, as well as the locations where the variation among the members is high. We further provide means to visuali... | false | false | [
"Mihaela Jarema",
"Ismail Demir",
"Johannes Kehrer",
"Rüdiger Westermann"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | DemographicVis: Analyzing demographic information based on user generated content | 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347631 | The wide-spread of social media provides unprecedented sources of written language that can be used to model and infer online demographics. In this paper, we introduce a novel visual text analytics system, DemographicVis, to aid interactive analysis of such demographic information based on user-generated content. Our a... | false | false | [
"Wenwen Dou",
"Isaac Cho",
"Omar ElTayeby",
"Jaegul Choo",
"Derek Xiaoyu Wang",
"William Ribarsky"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | EgoNetCloud: Event-based egocentric dynamic network visualization | 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347632 | Event-based egocentric dynamic networks are an important class of networks widely seen in many domains. In this paper, we present a visual analytics approach for these networks by combining data-driven network simplifications with a novel visualization design - EgoNetCloud. In particular, an integrated data processing ... | false | false | [
"Qingsong Liu",
"Yifan Hu 0001",
"Lei Shi 0002",
"Xinzhu Mu",
"Yutao Zhang",
"Jie Tang 0001"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | egoSlider: Visual Analysis of Egocentric Network Evolution | 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2468151 | Ego-network, which represents relationships between a specific individual, i.e., the ego, and people connected to it, i.e., alters, is a critical target to study in social network analysis. Evolutionary patterns of ego-networks along time provide huge insights to many domains such as sociology, anthropology, and psycho... | false | false | [
"Yanhong Wu",
"Naveen Pitipornvivat",
"Jian Zhao 0010",
"Sixiao Yang",
"Guowei Huang",
"Huamin Qu"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | Evolution inspector: Interactive visual analysis for evolutionary molecular design | 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347687 | De novo design is a computational-chemistry method, where a computer program utilizes an optimization method, in our case an evolutionary algorithm, to design compounds with desired chemical properties. The optimization is performed with respect to a quantity called fitness, defined by the chemists. We present a tool t... | false | false | [
"Veronika Soltészová",
"Marco Foscato",
"Sondre H. Eliasson",
"Vidar R. Jensen"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | Exploring Evolving Media Discourse Through Event Cueing | 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467991 | Online news, microblogs and other media documents all contain valuable insight regarding events and responses to events. Underlying these documents is the concept of framing, a process in which communicators act (consciously or unconsciously) to construct a point of view that encourages facts to be interpreted by other... | false | false | [
"Yafeng Lu",
"Michael Steptoe",
"Sarah Burke",
"Hong Wang",
"Jiun-Yi Tsai",
"Hasan Davulcu",
"Douglas C. Montgomery",
"Steven R. Corman",
"Ross Maciejewski"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | FeatureInsight: Visual support for error-driven feature ideation in text classification | 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347637 | Machine learning requires an effective combination of data, features, and algorithms. While many tools exist for working with machine learning data and algorithms, support for thinking of new features, or feature ideation, remains poor. In this paper, we investigate two general approaches to support feature ideation: v... | false | false | [
"Michael Brooks",
"Saleema Amershi",
"Bongshin Lee",
"Steven Mark Drucker",
"Ashish Kapoor",
"Patrice Y. Simard"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | Four considerations for supporting visual analysis in display ecologies | 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347628 | The current proliferation of large displays and mobile devices presents a number of exciting opportunities for visual analytics and information visualization. The display ecology enables multiple displays to function in concert within a broader technological environment to accomplish visual analysis tasks. Based on a c... | false | false | [
"Haeyong Chung",
"Chris North 0001",
"Sarang Joshi",
"Jian Chen 0006"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | FPSSeer: Visual analysis of game frame rate data | 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347633 | The rate at which frames are rendered in a computer game directly influences both game playability and enjoyability. Players frequently have to deal with the trade-off between high frame rates and good resolution. Analyzing patterns in frame rate data and their correlation with the overall game performance is important... | false | false | [
"Quan Li",
"Peng Xu",
"Huamin Qu"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | HTMVS: Visualizing hierarchical topics and their evolution | 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347675 | Topic model has been an active research area for many years, it can be used for discovering latent semantics and finding hidden knowledge in unstructured data corpus. In this paper, we investigated the problems in visualizing hierarchical topic and their evolution. The contribution of this paper is threefold, first we ... | false | false | [
"Haoling Dong",
"Siliang Tang",
"Si Li",
"Fei Wu 0001",
"Yueting Zhuang"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | Integrating predictive analytics into a spatiotemporal epidemic simulation | 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347626 | The Epidemic Simulation System (EpiSimS) is a scalable, complex modeling tool for analyzing disease within the United States. Due to its high input dimensionality, time requirements, and resource constraints, simulating over the entire parameter space is unfeasible. One solution is to take a granular sampling of the in... | false | false | [
"Chris Bryan",
"Xue Wu",
"Susan M. Mniszewski",
"Kwan-Liu Ma"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | Interactive semi-automatic categorization for spinel group minerals | 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347676 | Spinel group minerals are excellent indicators of geological environments (tectonic settings). In 2001, Barnes and Roeder defined a set of contours corresponding to compositional fields for spinel group minerals. Geologists typically use this contours to estimate the tectonic environment where a particular spinel compo... | false | false | [
"Maria Luján Ganuza",
"Maria Florencia Gargiulo",
"Gabriela Ferracutti",
"Silvia Mabel Castro",
"Ernesto A. Bjerg",
"M. Eduard Gröller",
"Kresimir Matkovic"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | Interactive Visual Discovering of Movement Patterns from Sparsely Sampled Geo-tagged Social Media Data | 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467619 | Social media data with geotags can be used to track people's movements in their daily lives. By providing both rich text and movement information, visual analysis on social media data can be both interesting and challenging. In contrast to traditional movement data, the sparseness and irregularity of social media data ... | false | false | [
"Siming Chen 0001",
"Xiaoru Yuan",
"Zhenhuang Wang",
"Cong Guo 0004",
"Christy Jie Liang",
"Zuchao Wang",
"Xiaolong Zhang 0001",
"Jiawan Zhang"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | Interactive Visual Profiling of Musicians | 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467620 | Determining similar objects based upon the features of an object of interest is a common task for visual analytics systems. This process is called profiling, if the object of interest is a person with individual attributes. The profiling of musicians similar to a musician of interest with the aid of visual means became... | false | false | [
"Stefan Jänicke",
"Josef Focht",
"Gerik Scheuermann"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | Interactive visual steering of hierarchical simulation ensembles | 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347635 | Multi-level simulation models, i.e., models where different components are simulated using sub-models of varying levels of complexity, belong to the current state-of-the-art in simulation. The existing analysis practice for multi-level simulation results is to manually compare results from different levels of complexit... | false | false | [
"Rainer Splechtna",
"Kresimir Matkovic",
"Denis Gracanin",
"Mario Jelovic",
"Helwig Hauser"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | InterAxis: Steering Scatterplot Axes via Observation-Level Interaction | 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467615 | Scatterplots are effective visualization techniques for multidimensional data that use two (or three) axes to visualize data items as a point at its corresponding x and y Cartesian coordinates. Typically, each axis is bound to a single data attribute. Interactive exploration occurs by changing the data attributes bound... | false | false | [
"Hannah Kim",
"Jaegul Choo",
"Haesun Park",
"Alex Endert"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | iVizTRANS: Interactive visual learning for home and work place detection from massive public transportation data | 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347630 | Using transport smart card transaction data to understand the homework dynamics of a city for urban planning is emerging as an alternative to traditional surveys which may be conducted every few years are no longer effective and efficient for the rapidly transforming modern cities. As commuters travel patterns are high... | false | false | [
"Liang Yu",
"Wei Wu 0020",
"Xiaohui Li 0002",
"Guangxia Li",
"Wee Siong Ng",
"See-Kiong Ng",
"Zhongwen Huang",
"Anushiya Arunan",
"Hui Min Watt"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | LiteVis: Integrated Visualization for Simulation-Based Decision Support in Lighting Design | 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2468011 | State-of-the-art lighting design is based on physically accurate lighting simulations of scenes such as offices. The simulation results support lighting designers in the creation of lighting configurations, which must meet contradicting customer objectives regarding quality and price while conforming to industry standa... | false | false | [
"Johannes Sorger",
"Thomas Ortner",
"Christian Luksch",
"Michael Schwärzler",
"M. Eduard Gröller",
"Harald Piringer"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | Mixed-initiative visual analytics using task-driven recommendations | 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347625 | Visual data analysis is composed of a collection of cognitive actions and tasks to decompose, internalize, and recombine data to produce knowledge and insight. Visual analytic tools provide interactive visual interfaces to data to support discovery and sensemaking tasks, including forming hypotheses, asking questions, ... | false | false | [
"Kristin A. Cook",
"Nick Cramer",
"David J. Israel",
"Michael Wolverton",
"Joe Bruce",
"Russ Burtner",
"Alex Endert"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | MobilityGraphs: Visual Analysis of Mass Mobility Dynamics via Spatio-Temporal Graphs and Clustering | 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2468111 | Learning more about people mobility is an important task for official decision makers and urban planners. Mobility data sets characterize the variation of the presence of people in different places over time as well as movements (or flows) of people between the places. The analysis of mobility data is challenging due t... | false | false | [
"Tatiana von Landesberger",
"Felix Brodkorb",
"Philipp Roskosch",
"Natalia V. Andrienko",
"Gennady L. Andrienko",
"Andreas Kerren"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | MotionFlow: Visual Abstraction and Aggregation of Sequential Patterns in Human Motion Tracking Data | 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2468292 | Pattern analysis of human motions, which is useful in many research areas, requires understanding and comparison of different styles of motion patterns. However, working with human motion tracking data to support such analysis poses great challenges. In this paper, we propose MotionFlow, a visual analytics system that ... | false | false | [
"Sujin Jang",
"Niklas Elmqvist",
"Karthik Ramani"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | PhenoBlocks: Phenotype Comparison Visualizations | 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467733 | The differential diagnosis of hereditary disorders is a challenging task for clinicians due to the heterogeneity of phenotypes that can be observed in patients. Existing clinical tools are often text-based and do not emphasize consistency, completeness, or granularity of phenotype reporting. This can impede clinical di... | false | false | [
"Michael Glueck",
"Peter Hamilton",
"Fanny Chevalier",
"Simon Breslav",
"Azam Khan",
"Daniel J. Wigdor",
"Michael Brudno"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | Reducing Snapshots to Points: A Visual Analytics Approach to Dynamic Network Exploration | 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2468078 | We propose a visual analytics approach for the exploration and analysis of dynamic networks. We consider snapshots of the network as points in high-dimensional space and project these to two dimensions for visualization and interaction using two juxtaposed views: one for showing a snapshot and one for showing the evolu... | false | false | [
"Stef van den Elzen",
"Danny Holten",
"Jorik Blaas",
"Jarke J. van Wijk"
] | [
"BP",
"TT"
] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | SensePath: Understanding the Sensemaking Process Through Analytic Provenance | 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467611 | Sensemaking is described as the process of comprehension, finding meaning and gaining insight from information, producing new knowledge and informing further action. Understanding the sensemaking process allows building effective visual analytics tools to make sense of large and complex datasets. Currently, it is often... | false | false | [
"Phong Hai Nguyen",
"Kai Xu 0003",
"Ashley Wheat",
"B. L. William Wong",
"Simon Attfield",
"Bob Fields"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | Sequencing of categorical time series | 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347684 | Exploring and comparing categorical time series and finding temporal patterns are complex tasks in the field of time series data mining. Although different analysis approaches exist, these tasks remain challenging, especially when numerous time series are considered at once. We propose a visual analysis approach that s... | false | false | [
"Christian Richter",
"Martin Luboschik",
"Martin Röhlig",
"Heidrun Schumann"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | StreamVisND: Visualizing relationships in streaming multivariate data | 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347673 | In streaming acquisitions the data changes over time. ThemeRiver and line charts are common methods to display data over time. However, these methods can only show the values of the variables (or attributes) but not the relationships among them over time. We propose a framework we call StreamVis<sup>ND</sup>... | false | false | [
"Shenghui Cheng",
"Yue Wang",
"Dan Zhang",
"Zhifang Jiang",
"Klaus Mueller 0001"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | Supporting activity recognition by visual analytics | 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347629 | Recognizing activities has become increasingly relevant in many application domains, such as security or ambient assisted living. To handle different scenarios, the underlying automated algorithms are configured using multiple input parameters. However, the influence and interplay of these parameters is often not clear... | false | false | [
"Martin Röhlig",
"Martin Luboschik",
"Frank Krüger 0001",
"Thomas Kirste",
"Heidrun Schumann",
"Markus Bögl",
"Bilal Alsallakh",
"Silvia Miksch"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | Supporting Iterative Cohort Construction with Visual Temporal Queries | 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467622 | Many researchers across diverse disciplines aim to analyze the behavior of cohorts whose behaviors are recorded in large event databases. However, extracting cohorts from databases is a difficult yet important step, often overlooked in many analytical solutions. This is especially true when researchers wish to restrict... | false | false | [
"Josua Krause",
"Adam Perer",
"Harry Stavropoulos"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | TargetVue: Visual Analysis of Anomalous User Behaviors in Online Communication Systems | 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467196 | Users with anomalous behaviors in online communication systems (e.g. email and social medial platforms) are potential threats to society. Automated anomaly detection based on advanced machine learning techniques has been developed to combat this issue; challenges remain, though, due to the difficulty of obtaining prope... | false | false | [
"Nan Cao",
"Conglei Shi",
"Wan-Yi Sabrina Lin",
"Jie Lu",
"Yu-Ru Lin",
"Ching-Yung Lin"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | Task-Driven Comparison of Topic Models | 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467618 | Topic modeling, a method of statistically extracting thematic content from a large collection of texts, is used for a wide variety of tasks within text analysis. Though there are a growing number of tools and techniques for exploring single models, comparisons between models are generally reduced to a small set of nume... | false | false | [
"Eric C. Alexander",
"Michael Gleicher"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | Tell me what do you see: Detecting perceptually-separable visual patterns via clustering of image-space features in visualizations | 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347683 | Visualization helps users infer structures and relationships in the data by encoding information as visual features that can be processed by the human visual-perceptual system. However, users would typically need to expend significant effort to scan and analyze a large number of views before they can begin to recognize... | false | false | [
"Khairi Reda",
"Alberto Gonzalez",
"Jason Leigh",
"Michael E. Papka"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | Temporal MDS Plots for Analysis of Multivariate Data | 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467553 | Multivariate time series data can be found in many application domains. Examples include data from computer networks, healthcare, social networks, or financial markets. Often, patterns in such data evolve over time among multiple dimensions and are hard to detect. Dimensionality reduction methods such as PCA and MDS al... | false | false | [
"Dominik Jäckle",
"Fabian Fischer 0001",
"Tobias Schreck",
"Daniel A. Keim"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | The Data Context Map: Fusing Data and Attributes into a Unified Display | 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467552 | Numerous methods have been described that allow the visualization of the data matrix. But all suffer from a common problem - observing the data points in the context of the attributes is either impossible or inaccurate. We describe a method that allows these types of comprehensive layouts. We achieve it by combining tw... | false | false | [
"Shenghui Cheng",
"Klaus Mueller 0001"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | The Role of Uncertainty, Awareness, and Trust in Visual Analytics | 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467591 | Visual analytics supports humans in generating knowledge from large and often complex datasets. Evidence is collected, collated and cross-linked with our existing knowledge. In the process, a myriad of analytical and visualisation techniques are employed to generate a visual representation of the data. These often intr... | false | false | [
"Dominik Sacha",
"Hansi Senaratne",
"Bum Chul Kwon",
"Geoffrey P. Ellis",
"Daniel A. Keim"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | The Visual Causality Analyst: An Interactive Interface for Causal Reasoning | 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467931 | Uncovering the causal relations that exist among variables in multivariate datasets is one of the ultimate goals in data analytics. Causation is related to correlation but correlation does not imply causation. While a number of casual discovery algorithms have been devised that eliminate spurious correlations from a ne... | false | false | [
"Jun Wang",
"Klaus Mueller 0001"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | TimeLineCurator: Interactive Authoring of Visual Timelines from Unstructured Text | 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467531 | We present TimeLineCurator, a browser-based authoring tool that automatically extracts event data from temporal references in unstructured text documents using natural language processing and encodes them along a visual timeline. Our goal is to facilitate the timeline creation process for journalists and others who tel... | false | false | [
"Johanna Fulda",
"Matthew Brehmer",
"Tamara Munzner"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | TimeStitch: Interactive multi-focus cohort discovery and comparison | 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347682 | Whereas event-based timelines for healthcare enable users to visualize the chronology of events surrounding events of interest, they are often not designed to aid the discovery, construction, or comparison of associated cohorts. We present TimeStitch, a system that helps health researchers discover and understand event... | false | false | [
"Peter J. Polack Jr.",
"Shang-Tse Chen",
"Minsuk Kahng",
"Moushumi Sharmin",
"Polo Chau"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | Topicks: Visualizing complex topic models for user comprehension | 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347681 | The interactive visualization of topic models is a promising approach to summarizing large sets of textual data. Topicks is the working title for a means to visualize topic modelling outputs. Incorporating a radial layout, users can view the relationships between topics, terms and the corpus as a whole. Interacting wit... | false | false | [
"Jessica Peter",
"Steve James Szigeti",
"Ana Jofre",
"Sara Diamond"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | TrajGraph: A Graph-Based Visual Analytics Approach to Studying Urban Network Centralities Using Taxi Trajectory Data | 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467771 | We propose TrajGraph, a new visual analytics method, for studying urban mobility patterns by integrating graph modeling and visual analysis with taxi trajectory data. A special graph is created to store and manifest real traffic information recorded by taxi trajectories over city streets. It conveys urban transportatio... | false | false | [
"Xiaoke Huang",
"Ye Zhao 0003",
"Chao Ma 0023",
"Jing Yang 0001",
"Xinyue Ye",
"Chong Zhang"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | Trending pool: Visual analytics for trending event compositions for time-series categorical log data | 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347688 | Although many visualization tools provide us plenty of ways to view the data, users can not easily find the trending events and their explanation from the data. In this work, we address the issue by leveraging the real music streaming log data as an example to better understand a million-scale dataset. Trending event e... | false | false | [
"Yi-Chih Tsai",
"Liang-Chi Hsieh",
"Wen-Feng Cheng",
"Yin-Hsi Kuo",
"Winston H. Hsu",
"Wen-Chin Chen"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | uRank: Visual analytics approach for search result exploration | 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347686 | uRank is a Web-based tool combining lightweight text analytics and visual methods for topic-wise exploration of document sets. It includes a view summarizing the content of the document set in meaningful terms, a dynamic document ranking view and a detailed view for further inspection of individual documents. Its major... | false | false | [
"Cecilia di Sciascio",
"Vedran Sabol",
"Eduardo E. Veas"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | Urbane: A 3D framework to support data driven decision making in urban development | 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347636 | Architects working with developers and city planners typically rely on experience, precedent and data analyzed in isolation when making decisions that impact the character of a city. These decisions are critical in enabling vibrant, sustainable environments but must also negotiate a range of complex political and socia... | false | false | [
"Nivan Ferreira",
"Marcos Lage",
"Harish Doraiswamy",
"Huy T. Vo",
"Luc Wilson",
"Heidi Werner",
"Muchan Park",
"Cláudio T. Silva"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | Using visualization and analysis with efficient dimension Reduction to determine underlying factors in hospital inpatient procedure costs | 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347680 | The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has made public a data set showing what hospitals charged and what Medicare paid for the one hundred most common inpatient stays. Here we present the application of Reduced Basis Decomposition (RBD), an efficient novel dimension reduction algorithm for data processin... | false | false | [
"Miriam Perkins",
"Yanlai Chen"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,015 | VA2: A Visual Analytics Approach for Evaluating Visual Analytics Applications | 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467871 | Evaluation has become a fundamental part of visualization research and researchers have employed many approaches from the field of human-computer interaction like measures of task performance, thinking aloud protocols, and analysis of interaction logs. Recently, eye tracking has also become popular to analyze visual st... | false | false | [
"Tanja Blascheck",
"Markus John",
"Kuno Kurzhals",
"Steffen Koch 0001",
"Thomas Ertl"
] | [
"HM"
] | [] | [] |
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