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VAST
2,007
VAST to Knowledge: Combining tools for exploration and mining
10.1109/VAST.2007.4389015
The investigation of the VAST Contest collection provided a valuable test for text mining techniques. Our group has focused on creating analytical tools to unveil relevant patterns and to aid with the content navigation in such text collections. Our results show how such an approach, in combination with visualization t...
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[ "Loretta Auvil", "Xavier Llorà", "Duane Searsmith", "Kelly Searsmith" ]
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VAST
2,007
VAST to Knowledge: Combining tools for exploration and mining
10.1109/VAST.2007.4389035
The investigation of the VAST Contest collection provided a valuable test for text mining techniques. Our group has focused on creating analytical tools to unveil relevant patterns and to aid with the content navigation in such text collections. Our results show how such an approach, in combination with visualization t...
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[ "Loretta Auvil", "Xavier Llorà", "Duane Searsmith", "Kelly Searsmith" ]
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VAST
2,007
VisPad: Integrating Visualization, Navigation and Synthesis
10.1109/VAST.2007.4389021
We present a new framework - VisPad - to support the user to revisit the visual exploration process, and to synthesize and disseminate information. It offers three integrated views. The data view allows the user to interactively explore the data. The navigation view captures the exploration process. It enables the user...
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[ "Yedendra Babu Shrinivasan", "Jarke J. van Wijk" ]
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VAST
2,007
Visual Analysis of Controversy in User-generated Encyclopedias
10.1109/VAST.2007.4389012
Wikipedia is a large and rapidly growing Web-based collaborative authoring environment, where anyone on the Internet can create, modify, and delete pages about encyclopedic topics. A remarkable property of some Wikipedia pages is that they are written by up to thousands of authors who may have contradicting opinions. I...
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[ "Ulrik Brandes", "Jürgen Lerner" ]
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VAST
2,007
Visual Analysis of Dynamic Networks with Geological Clustering
10.1109/VAST.2007.4389027
Many dynamic networks have associated geological information. Here we present two complementing visual analysis methods for such networks. The first one provides an overview with summerized information while the second one presents a more detailed view. The geological information is encoded in the network layout, which...
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[ "Adel Ahmed", "Xiaoyan Fu", "Seok-Hee Hong 0001", "Quan Hoang Nguyen", "Kai Xu 0003" ]
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VAST
2,007
Visual Analytics Approach to User-Controlled Evacuation Scheduling
10.1109/VAST.2007.4388995
Application of the ideas of visual analytics is a promising approach to supporting decision making, in particular, where the problems have geographic (or spatial) and temporal aspects. Visual analytics may be especially helpful in time-critical applications, which pose hard challenges to decision support. We have desig...
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[ "Gennady L. Andrienko", "Natalia V. Andrienko", "Ulrich Bartling" ]
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VAST
2,007
Visual Analytics on Mobile Devices for Emergency Response
10.1109/VAST.2007.4388994
Using mobile devices for visualization provides a ubiquitous environment for accessing information and effective decision making. These visualizations are critical in satisfying the knowledge needs of operators in areas as diverse as education, business, law enforcement, protective services, medical services, scientifi...
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[ "SungYe Kim", "Yun Jang", "Angela K. Mellema", "David S. Ebert", "Timothy W. Collins" ]
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VAST
2,007
Visual Analytics with Jigsaw
10.1109/VAST.2007.4389017
This article briefly introduces the Jigsaw system and describes how we used it in analysis activities for the VAST '07 Contest. Jigsaw is a visual analytic system that provides multiple coordinated views to show connections between entities that are extracted from a collection of documents.
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[ "Carsten Görg", "Zhicheng Liu", "Neel Parekh", "Kanupriya Singhal", "John T. Stasko" ]
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VAST
2,007
WireVis: Visualization of Categorical, Time-Varying Data From Financial Transactions
10.1109/VAST.2007.4389009
Large financial institutions such as Bank of America handle hundreds of thousands of wire transactions per day. Although most transactions are legitimate, these institutions have legal and financial obligations in discovering those that are suspicious. With the methods of fraudulent activities ever changing, searching ...
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[ "Remco Chang", "Mohammad Ghoniem", "Robert Kosara", "William Ribarsky", "Jing Yang 0001", "Evan A. Suma", "Caroline Ziemkiewicz", "Daniel A. Kern", "Agus Sudjianto" ]
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InfoVis
2,007
A Taxonomy of Clutter Reduction for Information Visualisation
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70535
Information visualisation is about gaining insight into data through a visual representation. This data is often multivariate and increasingly, the datasets are very large. To help us explore all this data, numerous visualisation applications, both commercial and research prototypes, have been designed using a variety ...
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[ "Geoffrey P. Ellis", "Alan J. Dix" ]
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InfoVis
2,007
AdaptiviTree: Adaptive Tree Visualization for Tournament-Style Brackets
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70537
Online pick'em games, such as the recent NCAA college basketball March Madness tournament, form a large and rapidly growing industry. In these games, players make predictions on a tournament bracket that defines which competitors play each other and how they proceed toward a single champion. Throughout the course of th...
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[ "Desney S. Tan", "Greg Smith", "Bongshin Lee", "George G. Robertson" ]
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InfoVis
2,007
Animated Transitions in Statistical Data Graphics
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70539
In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of animated transitions between common statistical data graphics such as bar charts, pie charts, and scatter plots. We extend theoretical models of data graphics to include such transitions, introducing a taxonomy of transition types. We then propose design principles for ...
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[ "Jeffrey Heer", "George G. Robertson" ]
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InfoVis
2,007
Browsing Zoomable Treemaps: Structure-Aware Multi-Scale Navigation Techniques
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70540
Treemaps provide an interesting solution for representing hierarchical data. However, most studies have mainly focused on layout algorithms and paid limited attention to the interaction with treemaps. This makes it difficult to explore large data sets and to get access to details, especially to those related to the lea...
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[ "Renaud Blanch", "Eric Lecolinet" ]
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InfoVis
2,007
Casual Information Visualization: Depictions of Data in Everyday Life
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70541
Information visualization has often focused on providing deep insight for expert user populations and on techniques for amplifying cognition through complicated interactive visual models. This paper proposes a new subdomain for infovis research that complements the focus on analytic tasks and expert use. Instead of wor...
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[ "Zachary Pousman", "John T. Stasko", "Michael Mateas" ]
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InfoVis
2,007
Exploring Multiple Trees through DAG Representations
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70556
We present a directed acyclic graph visualisation designed to allow interaction with a set of multiple classification trees, specifically to find overlaps and differences between groups of trees and individual trees. The work is motivated by the need to find a representation for multiple trees that has the space-saving...
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[ "Martin Graham 0001", "Jessie Kennedy" ]
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InfoVis
2,007
Geographically Weighted Visualization: Interactive Graphics for Scale-Varying Exploratory Analysis
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70558
We introduce a series of geographically weighted (GW) interactive graphics, or geowigs, and use them to explore spatial relationships at a range of scales. We visually encode information about geographic and statistical proximity and variation in novel ways through <i>gw-choropleth maps</i>, multivariate &l...
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[ "Jason Dykes", "Chris Brunsdon" ]
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InfoVis
2,007
Hotmap: Looking at Geographic Attention
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70561
Understanding how people use online maps allows data acquisition teams to concentrate their efforts on the portions of the map that are most seen by users. Online maps represent vast databases, and so it is insufficient to simply look at a list of the most-accessed URLs. Hotmap takes advantage of the design of a mappin...
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[ "Danyel Fisher" ]
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InfoVis
2,007
Interactive Tree Comparison for Co-located Collaborative Information Visualization
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70568
In many domains, increased collaboration has lead to more innovation by fostering the sharing of knowledge, skills, and ideas. Shared analysis of information visualizations does not only lead to increased information processing power, but team members can also share, negotiate, and discuss their views and interpretatio...
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[ "Petra Isenberg", "Sheelagh Carpendale" ]
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InfoVis
2,007
Interactive Visual Exploration of a Large Spatio-temporal Dataset: Reflections on a Geovisualization Mashup.
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70570
Exploratory visual analysis is useful for the preliminary investigation of large structured, multifaceted spatio-temporal datasets. This process requires the selection and aggregation of records by time, space and attribute, the ability to transform data and the flexibility to apply appropriate visual encodings and int...
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[ "Jo Wood", "Jason Dykes", "Aidan Slingsby", "Keith C. Clarke" ]
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InfoVis
2,007
Legible Cities: Focus-Dependent Multi-Resolution Visualization of Urban Relationships
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70574
Numerous systems have been developed to display large collections of data for urban contexts; however, most have focused on layering of single dimensions of data and manual calculations to understand relationships within the urban environment. Furthermore, these systems often limit the user's perspectives on the data, ...
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[ "Remco Chang", "Ginette Wessel", "Robert Kosara", "Eric Sauda", "William Ribarsky" ]
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InfoVis
2,007
ManyEyes: a Site for Visualization at Internet Scale
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70577
We describe the design and deployment of Many Eyes, a public Web site where users may upload data, create interactive visualizations, and carry on discussions. The goal of the site is to support collaboration around visualizations at a large scale by fostering a social style of data analysis in which visualizations not...
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[ "Fernanda B. Viégas", "Martin Wattenberg", "Frank van Ham", "Jesse Kriss", "Matthew M. McKeon" ]
[ "TT" ]
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InfoVis
2,007
Multi-Level Graph Layout on the GPU
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70580
This paper presents a new algorithm for force directed graph layout on the GPU. The algorithm, whose goal is to compute layouts accurately and quickly, has two contributions. The first contribution is proposing a general multi-level scheme, which is based on spectral partitioning. The second contribution is computing t...
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[ "Yaniv Frishman", "Ayellet Tal" ]
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InfoVis
2,007
NodeTrix: a Hybrid Visualization of Social Networks
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70582
The need to visualize large social networks is growing as hardware capabilities make analyzing large networks feasible and many new data sets become available. Unfortunately, the visualizations in existing systems do not satisfactorily resolve the basic dilemma of being readable both for the global structure of the net...
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[ "Nathalie Henry Riche", "Jean-Daniel Fekete", "Michael J. McGuffin" ]
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InfoVis
2,007
Overview Use in Multiple Visual Information Resolution Interfaces
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70583
In interfaces that provide multiple visual information resolutions (VIR), low-VIR overviews typically sacrifice visual details for display capacity, with the assumption that users can select regions of interest to examine at higher VI Rs. Designers can create low VIRs based on multi-level structure inherent in the data...
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[ "Heidi Lam", "Tamara Munzner", "Robert Kincaid" ]
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InfoVis
2,007
Scented Widgets: Improving Navigation Cues with Embedded Visualizations
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70589
This paper presents scented widgets, graphical user interface controls enhanced with embedded visualizations that facilitate navigation in information spaces. We describe design guidelines for adding visual cues to common user interface widgets such as radio buttons, sliders, and combo boxes and contribute a general so...
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[ "Wesley Willett", "Jeffrey Heer", "Maneesh Agrawala" ]
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InfoVis
2,007
Sequential Document Visualization
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70592
Documents and other categorical valued time series are often characterized by the frequencies of short range sequential patterns such as n-grams. This representation converts sequential data of varying lengths to high dimensional histogram vectors which are easily modeled by standard statistical models. Unfortunately, ...
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[ "Yi Mao", "Joshua V. Dillon", "Guy Lebanon" ]
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InfoVis
2,007
Show Me: Automatic Presentation for Visual Analysis
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70594
This paper describes Show Me, an integrated set of user interface commands and defaults that incorporate automatic presentation into a commercial visual analysis system called Tableau. A key aspect of Tableau is VizQL, a language for specifying views, which is used by Show Me to extend automatic presentation to the gen...
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[ "Jock D. Mackinlay", "Pat Hanrahan", "Chris Stolte" ]
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InfoVis
2,007
Spatialization Design: Comparing Points and Landscapes
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70596
Spatializations represent non-spatial data using a spatial layout similar to a map. We present an experiment comparing different visual representations of spatialized data, to determine which representations are best for a non-trivial search and point estimation task. Primarily, we compare point-based displays to 2D an...
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[ "Melanie Tory", "David W. Sprague", "Fuqu Wu", "Wing Yan So", "Tamara Munzner" ]
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InfoVis
2,007
Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Role of Interaction in Information Visualization
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70515
Even though interaction is an important part of information visualization (Infovis), it has garnered a relatively low level of attention from the Infovis community. A few frameworks and taxonomies of Infovis interaction techniques exist, but they typically focus on low-level operations and do not address the variety of...
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[ "Ji Soo Yi", "Youn ah Kang", "John T. Stasko", "Julie A. Jacko" ]
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InfoVis
2,007
VisLink: Revealing Relationships Amongst Visualizations
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70521
We present VisLink, a method by which visualizations and the relationships between them can be interactively explored. VisLink readily generalizes to support multiple visualizations, empowers inter-representational queries, and enables the reuse of the spatial variables, thus supporting efficient information encoding a...
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[ "Christopher Collins 0001", "Sheelagh Carpendale" ]
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InfoVis
2,007
Visual Analysis of Network Traffic for Resource Planning, Interactive Monitoring, and Interpretation of Security Threats
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70522
The Internet has become a wild place: malicious code is spread on personal computers across the world, deploying botnets ready to attack the network infrastructure. The vast number of security incidents and other anomalies overwhelms attempts at manual analysis, especially when monitoring service provider backbone link...
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[ "Florian Mansmann", "Daniel A. Keim", "Stephen C. North", "Brian Rexroad", "Daniel Sheleheda" ]
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InfoVis
2,007
Visualization of Heterogeneous Data
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70617
Both the resource description framework (RDF), used in the semantic web, and Maya Viz u-forms represent data as a graph of objects connected by labeled edges. Existing systems for flexible visualization of this kind of data require manual specification of the possible visualization roles for each data attribute. When t...
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[ "Mike Cammarano", "Xin Dong 0001", "Bryan Chan 0001", "Jeff Klingner", "Justin Talbot", "Alon Y. Halevy", "Pat Hanrahan" ]
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InfoVis
2,007
Visualizing Causal Semantics Using Animations
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70528
Michotte's theory of ampliation suggests that causal relationships are perceived by objects animated under appropriate spatiotemporal conditions. We extend the theory of ampliation and propose that the immediate perception of complex causal relations is also dependent on a set of structural and temporal rules. We desig...
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[ "Nivedita R. Kadaba", "Pourang Irani", "Jason Leboe-McGowan" ]
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InfoVis
2,007
Visualizing Changes of Hierarchical Data using Treemaps
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70529
While the treemap is a popular method for visualizing hierarchical data, it is often difficult for users to track layout and attribute changes when the data evolve over time. When viewing the treemaps side by side or back and forth, there exist several problems that can prevent viewers from performing effective compari...
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[ "Ying Tu", "Han-Wei Shen" ]
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InfoVis
2,007
Visualizing the History of Living Spaces
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70621
The technology available to building designers now makes it possible to monitor buildings on a very large scale. Video cameras and motion sensors are commonplace in practically every office space, and are slowly making their way into living spaces. The application of such technologies, in particular video cameras, whil...
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[ "Yuri A. Ivanov", "Christopher Richard Wren", "Alexander Sorokin", "Ishwinder Kaur" ]
[ "BP" ]
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InfoVis
2,007
Weaving Versus Blending: a quantitative assessment of the information carrying capacities of two alternative methods for conveying multivariate data with color.
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70623
In many applications, it is important to understand the individual values of, and relationships between, multiple related scalar variables defined across a common domain. Several approaches have been proposed for representing data in these situations. In this paper we focus on strategies for the visualization of multiv...
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[ "Haleh Hagh-Shenas", "Sunghee Kim", "Victoria Interrante", "Christopher G. Healey" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
A Tri-Space Visualization Interface for Analyzing Time-Varying Multivariate Volume Data
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/115-122
The dataset generated by a large-scale numerical simulation may include thousands of timesteps and hundreds of variables describing different aspects of the modeled physical phenomena. In order to analyze and understand such data, scientists need the capability to explore simultaneously in the temporal, spatial, and va...
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[ "Hiroshi Akiba", "Kwan-Liu Ma" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Animation of Orthogonal Texture-Based Vector Field Visualization
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/219-226
This paper introduces orthogonal vector field visualization on 2D manifolds: a representation by lines that are perpendicular to the input vector field. Line patterns are generated by line integral convolution (LIC). This visualization is combined with animation based on motion along the vector field. This decoupling o...
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[ "Sven Bachthaler", "Daniel Weiskopf" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Depth Cues and Density in Temporal Parallel Coordinates
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/035-042
This paper introduces Temporal Density Parallel Coordinates (TDPC) and Depth Cue Parallel Coordinates (DCPC) which extend the standard 2D parallel coordinates technique to capture time-varying dynamics. The proposed techniques can be used to analyse temporal positions of data items as well as temporal positions of chan...
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[ "Jimmy Johansson 0001", "Patric Ljung", "Matthew Cooper 0001" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Design of Multi-dimensional Transfer Functions Using Dimensional Reduction
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/131-138
Direct volume rendering techniques allow visualization of volume data without extracting intermediate geometry. The mapping from voxel attributes to optical properties is performed by transfer functions which, consequently, play a crucial role in building informative images from the data. One-dimensional transfer funct...
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[ "Francisco de Moura Pinto", "Carla M. D. S. Freitas" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Dimensional Congruence for Interactive Visual Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/099-106
Many authors in the field of 3D human computer interaction have described the advantages of 3D user interfaces: Intuitive metaphors from daily life, immersive workspaces, virtual environments that closely resemble natural environments, and the usefulness of the third dimension as an additional visualization scale. Neve...
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[ "Sebastian Baumgärtner", "Achim Ebert", "Matthias Deller" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Feature Emphasis and Contextual Cutaways for Multimodal Medical Visualization
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/275-282
Dense clinical data like 3D Computed Tomography (CT) scans can be visualized together with real-time imaging for a number of medical intervention applications. However, it is difficult to provide a fused visualization that allows sufficient spatial perception of the anatomy of interest, as derived from the rich pre-ope...
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[ "Michael Burns", "Martin Haidacher", "Wolfgang Wein", "Ivan Viola", "M. Eduard Gröller" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Feature Identification and Extraction in Function Fields
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/195-201
We present interactive techniques for identifying and extracting features in function fields. Function fields map points in n-dimensional Euclidean space to 1-dimensional scalar functions. Visual feature identification is ac- complished by interactively rendering scalar distance fields, constructed by applying a functi...
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[ "John C. Anderson", "Luke J. Gosink", "Mark A. Duchaineau", "Kenneth I. Joy" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Flexible And Topologically Localized Segmentation
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/179-186
One of the most common visualization tasks is the extraction of significant boundaries, often performed with isosurfaces or level set segmentation. Isosurface extraction is simple and can be guided by geometric and topological analysis, yet frequently does not extract the desired boundary. Level set segmentation is bet...
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[ "Gunnar Johansson", "Ken Museth", "Hamish A. Carr" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Functional Unit Maps for Data-Driven Visualization of High-Density EEG Coherence
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/259-266
Synchronous electrical activity in different brain regions is generally assumed to imply functional relationships between these regions. A measure for this synchrony is electroencephalography (EEG) coherence, computed between pairs of signals as a function of frequency. Existing high-density EEG coherence visualization...
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[ "Michael ten Caat", "Natasha M. Maurits", "Jos B. T. M. Roerdink" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Grouse: Feature-Based, Steerable Graph Hierarchy Exploration
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/067-074
Grouse is a feature-based approach to steerable exploration of a graph and an associated hierarchy. Steerability allows exploration to begin immediately, rather than requiring a costly layout of the entire graph as an initial step. In a feature-based approach, the subgraph inside a metanode of the graph hierarchy is la...
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[ "Daniel Archambault", "Tamara Munzner", "David Auber" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Hardware-accelerated Stippling of Surfaces derived from Medical Volume Data
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/235-242
We present a fast hardware-accelerated stippling method which does not require any preprocessing for placing points on surfaces. The surfaces are automatically parameterized in order to apply stippling textures without major distortions. The mapping process is guided by a decomposition of the space in cubes. Seamless s...
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[ "Alexandra Baer", "Christian Tietjen", "Ragnar Bade", "Bernhard Preim" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Integrating Local Feature Detectors in the Interactive Visual Analysis of Flow Simulation Data
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/171-178
We present smooth formulations of common vortex detectors that allow a seamless integration into the concept of interactive visual analysis of flow simulation data. We express the originally binary feature detectors as fuzzy-sets that can be combined using the linking and brushing concepts of interactive visual analysi...
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[ "Raphael Buerger", "Philipp Muigg", "Martin Ilcík", "Helmut Doleisch", "Helwig Hauser" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Interactive Visual Exploration of Unsteady 3D Flows
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/251-258
In this paper we present GPU-based techniques for the interactive visualization of large unsteady 3D flow fields on uniform grids. We propose a novel dual-core approach to asynchronously stream such fields from the CPU, thus enabling the efficient exploration of large time-resolved sequences. This approach decouples vi...
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[ "Kai Bürger", "Jens Schneider 0002", "Polina Kondratieva", "Jens H. Krüger", "Rüdiger Westermann" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Interactive Visualization of Multi-Field Medical Data Using Linked Physical and Feature-Space Views
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/123-130
Multi-field datasets contain multiple parameters defined over the same spatio-temporal domain. In medicine, such multi-field data is being used more often every day, and there is an urgent need for exploratory visualization approaches that are able to deal effectively with the data-analysis. In this paper, we present a...
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[ "Jorik Blaas", "Charl P. Botha", "Frits H. Post" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
KeyStrokes: Personalizing Typed Text with Visualization
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/043-050
With the ubiquity of typed text, the style and much of the personality of handwriting has been lost from general communication. To counter this we introduce an artistic real-time visualization of typed messages that additionally captures and encodes aspects of an individual's unique typing style. The potential of our s...
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[ "Petra Neumann 0001", "Annie Tat", "Torre Zuk", "Sheelagh Carpendale" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Manual Clustering Refinement using Interaction with Blobs
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/059-066
The huge amount of different automatic clustering methods emphasizes one thing: there is no optimal clustering method for all possible cases. In certain application domains, like genomics and natural language processing, it is not even clear if any of the already known clustering methods suffice. In such cases, an auto...
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[ "Christian Heine 0002", "Gerik Scheuermann" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Model-free Surface Visualization of Vascular Trees
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/283-290
Expressive and efficient visualizations of complex vascular structures are essential for medical applications, such as diagnosis and therapy planning. A variety of techniques has been developed which provide smooth high-quality visualizations of vascular structures based on rather simple model assumptions. For diagnost...
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[ "Christian Schumann", "Steffen Oeltze", "Ragnar Bade", "Bernhard Preim", "Heinz-Otto Peitgen" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Multi-Resolution Techniques for Visual Exploration of Large Time-Series Data
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/027-034
Time series are a data type of utmost importance in many domains such as business management and service monitoring. We address the problem of visualizing large time-related data sets which are difficult to visualize effectively with standard techniques given the limitations of current display devices. We propose a fra...
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[ "Ming C. Hao", "Umeshwar Dayal", "Daniel A. Keim", "Tobias Schreck" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Multiresolution MIP Rendering of Large Volumetric Data Accelerated on Graphics Hardware
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/243-250
This paper is concerned with a multiresolution representation for maximum intensity projection (MIP) volume rendering based on morphological pyramids which allows progressive refinement. We consider two algorithms for progressive rendering from the morphological pyramid: one which projects detail coefficients level by ...
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[ "Wladimir J. van der Laan", "Andrei C. Jalba", "Jos B. T. M. Roerdink" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Multiscale Visualization of Dynamic Software Logs
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/011-018
We present a set of techniques and design principles for the visualization of large dynamic software logs consisting of attributed change events, such as obtained from instrumenting programs or mining software repositories. We enhance the visualization scalability with importance-based antialiasing techniques that guar...
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[ "Sergio Moreta", "Alexandru C. Telea" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Online Dynamic Graph Drawing
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/075-082
This paper presents an algorithm for drawing a sequence of graphs online. The algorithm strives to maintain the global structure of the graph and thus the user's mental map, while allowing arbitrary modifications between consecutive layouts. The algorithm works online and uses various execution culling methods in order...
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[ "Yaniv Frishman", "Ayellet Tal" ]
[ "BP" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Parametric Visualization of High Resolution Correlated Multi-spectral Features Using PCA
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/203-210
An imaging mass spectrometer is an analytical instrument that can determine the spatial distribution of chemical compounds on complex surfaces. The output of the device is a multi-spectral datacube; a three-dimensional (3D) dataset in which the xy-dimension represents the surface position and the z-dimension represents...
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[ "Alexander Broersen", "Robert van Liere", "Ron M. A. Heeren" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Path Visualization for Adjacency Matrices
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/083-090
For displaying a dense graph, an adjacency matrix is superior than a node-link diagram because it is more compact and free of visual clutter. A node-link diagram, however, is far better for the task of path finding because a path can be easily traced by following the corresponding links, provided that the links are not...
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[ "Zeqian Shen", "Kwan-Liu Ma" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Priority Streamlines: A context-based Visualization of Flow Fields
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/227-234
Flow vector fields contain a wealth of information that needs to be visualized. As an extension of the well-known streamline technique, we have developed a context-based method for visualizing steady flow vector fields in two and three dimensions. We call our method "Priority Streamlines". In our approach, the density ...
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[ "Michael Schlemmer", "Ingrid Hotz", "Bernd Hamann", "Florian Morr", "Hans Hagen" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Relevance Driven Visualization of Financial Performance Measures
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/019-026
Visual data analysis has received a lot of research interest in recent years, and a wide variety of new visualization techniques and applications have been developed to improve insight into the various application domains. In financial data analysis, however, analysts still primarily rely on a set of statistical perfor...
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[ "Hartmut Ziegler", "Tilo Nietzschmann", "Daniel A. Keim" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
See What You Know: Analyzing Data Distribution to Improve Density Map Visualization
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/163-170
Density maps allow for visually rendering density differences, usually mapping density values to a grey or color scale. The paper analyzes the drawbacks arising from the commonly used strategies and introduces a novel technique able to improve the overall mapping process. The technique is driven by statistical knowledg...
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[ "Enrico Bertini", "Alessio Di Girolamo", "Giuseppe Santucci" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Segmentation of DT-MRI Anisotropy Isosurfaces
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/187-194
While isosurfaces of anisotropy measures for data from diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI) are known to depict major anatomical structures, the anisotropy metric reduces the rich tensor data to a simple scalar field. In this work, we suggest that the part of the data which has been ignored by the metri...
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[ "Thomas Schultz 0001", "Holger Theisel", "Hans-Peter Seidel" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Sonar Explorer: A New Tool for Visualization of Fish Schools from 3D Sonar Data
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/155-162
We present a novel framework for analysis and visualization of fish schools in 3D sonar surveys. The 3D sonar technology is new and there have not been applications to visualize the data in 3D. We have created an application called Sonar Explorer that satisfies the requirements of domain scientists. Sonar Explorer prov...
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[ "Jean-Paul Balabanian", "Ivan Viola", "Egil Ona", "Ruben Patel", "M. Eduard Gröller" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Story Telling for Presentation in Volume Visualization
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/091-098
In this paper we present a novel approach to volume visualization for presentation purposes that improves both the comprehensibility and credibility of the intended visualization message. Therefore, we combine selected aspects from storytelling as well as from interactive volume visualization to create a guided but at ...
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[ "Michael Wohlfart", "Helwig Hauser" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Subdivision Volume Splatting
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/139-146
Volumetric Subdivision (VS) is a powerful paradigm that enables volumetric sculpting and realistic volume deformations that give rise to the concept of "virtual clay". In VS, volumes are commonly represented as a space-filling set of deformed polyhedra, which can be further decomposed into a mesh of tetrahedra for rend...
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[ "Kevin T. McDonnell", "Neophytos Neophytou", "Klaus Mueller 0001", "Hong Qin" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
The CoMIRVA Toolkit for Visualizing Music-Related Data
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/147-154
We present CoMIRVA, which is an abbreviation for Collection of Music Information Retrieval and Visualization Applications. CoMIRVA is a Java framework and toolkit for information retrieval and visualization. It is licensed under the GNU GPL and can be downloaded from http://www.cp.jku.at/comirva/. At the moment, the ma...
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[ "Markus Schedl", "Peter Knees", "Klaus Seyerlehner", "Tim Pohle" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
TrustNeighborhoods: Visualizing Trust in Distributed File Sharing Systems
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/107-114
We present TrustNeighborhoods, a security trust visualization for situational awareness on the Internet aimed at novice and intermediate users of a distributed file sharing system. The TrustNeighborhoods technique uses the metaphor of a multi-layered city or fortress to intuitively represent trust as a simple geographi...
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[ "Niklas Elmqvist", "Philippas Tsigas" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Viewpoint Selection for Intervention Planning
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/267-274
Viewpoint selection is crucial for medical intervention planning. The interactive exploration of a scene with 3d objects involves the systematic analysis of several anatomic structures. Viewpoint selection techniques enhance the display of the currently selected structure. For animations in collaborative intervention p...
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[ "Konrad Mühler", "Mathias Neugebauer", "Christian Tietjen", "Bernhard Preim" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Visualization Methods for Vortex Rings and Vortex Breakdown Bubbles
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/211-218
Vortex breakdown bubbles are a subject which is of interest in many disciplines such as aeronautics, mixing, and combustion. Existing visualization methods are based on stream surfaces, direct volume rendering, tensor field visualization, and vector field topology. This paper presents a topological approach which is mo...
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[ "Ronald Peikert", "Filip Sadlo" ]
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EuroVis
2,007
Visualization of Uncertainty in Lattices to Support Decision-Making
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/051-058
Lattice graphs are used as underlying data structures in many statistical processing systems, including natural language processing. Lattices compactly represent multiple possible outputs and are usually hidden from users. We present a novel visualization intended to reveal the uncertainty and variability inherent in s...
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[ "Christopher Collins 0001", "Sheelagh Carpendale", "Gerald Penn" ]
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CHI
2,007
An empirical study of the use of visually enhanced voip audio conferencing: the case of IEAC
10.1145/1240624.1240780
IBM Enhanced Audio Conferencing (IEAC) is a VoIP-based audio conferencing system that, like several other systems, provides a visualization showing who is present and their states (e.g., speaking, muted). This paper presents the first study of the use of such a system. Drawing on log files collected over six weeks of u...
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[ "Xianghua Ding", "Thomas Erickson", "Wendy A. Kellogg", "Stephen Levy", "Jim Christensen", "Jeremy B. Sussman", "Tracee Vetting Wolf", "William E. Bennett" ]
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CHI
2,007
Beyond visual acuity: the perceptual scalability of information visualizations for large displays
10.1145/1240624.1240639
The scalability of information visualizations has typically been limited by the number of available display pixels. As displays become larger, the scalability limit may shift away from the number of pixels and toward human perceptual abilities. This work explores the effect of using large, high resolution displays to s...
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[ "Beth Yost", "Yonca Haciahmetoglu", "Chris North 0001" ]
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CHI
2,007
CAAD: an automatic task support system
10.1145/1240624.1240731
Recent HCI research shows strong interest in task management systems (e.g. [19, 27]) that support the multi-tasked nature of information work [13]. These systems either require users to manually create and maintain task representations or they depend on explicit user cues to guide the creation and maintenance process. ...
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[ "Tye Rattenbury", "John F. Canny" ]
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CHI
2,007
ExperiScope: an analysis tool for interaction data
10.1145/1240624.1240826
We present ExperiScope, an analytical tool to help designers and experimenters explore the results of quantitative evaluations of interaction techniques. ExperiScope combines a new visualization incorporating aspects of the KLM and the three-state model with an interface helping users to rapidly cluster similar pattern...
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[ "François Guimbretière", "Morgan Dixon", "Ken Hinckley" ]
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CHI
2,007
FASTDash: a visual dashboard for fostering awareness in software teams
10.1145/1240624.1240823
Software developers spend significant time gaining and maintaining awareness of fellow developers' activities. FASTDash is a new interactive visualization that seeks to improve team activity awareness using a spatial representation of the shared code base that highlights team members' current activities. With FASTDash,...
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[ "Jacob T. Biehl", "Mary Czerwinski", "Greg Smith", "George G. Robertson" ]
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CHI
2,007
Improving recognition and characterization in groupware with rich embodiments
10.1145/1240624.1240627
Embodiments are visual representations of people in a groupware system. Embodiments convey awareness information such as presence, location, and movement -- but they provide far less information than what is available from a real body in a face-to-face setting. As a result, it is often difficult to recognize and charac...
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[ "Tadeusz Stach", "Carl Gutwin", "David Pinelle", "Pourang Irani" ]
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CHI
2,007
Let's go to the whiteboard: how and why software developers use drawings
10.1145/1240624.1240714
Software developers are rooted in the written form of their code, yet they often draw diagrams representing their code. Unfortunately, we still know little about how and why they create these diagrams, and so there is little research to inform the design of visual tools to support developers' work. This paper presents ...
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[ "Mauro Cherubini", "Gina Venolia", "Robert DeLine", "Amy J. Ko" ]
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CHI
2,007
Perception of elementary graphical elements in tabletop and multi-surface environments
10.1145/1240624.1240701
Information shown on a tabletop display can appear distorted when viewed by a seated user. Even worse, the impact of this distortion is different depending on the location of the information on the display. In this paper, we examine how this distortion affects the perception of the basic graphical elements of informati...
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[ "Daniel Wigdor", "Chia Shen", "Clifton Forlines", "Ravin Balakrishnan" ]
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CHI
2,007
Seconds matter: improving distributed coordination bytracking and visualizing display trajectories
10.1145/1240624.1240822
Pauses in distributed groupware activity can indicate anything from technical latency through infrastructure failure to a participant's thoughtful contemplation. Unraveling these ambiguities highlights mismatches between unseen off-screen activities and on-screen cursor behaviors. In this paper we suggest that groupwar...
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[ "Mike Fraser 0001", "Michael R. McCarthy", "Muneeb Shaukat", "Phillip Smith" ]
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CHI
2,007
Senspectra: a computationally augmented physical modeling toolkit for sensing and visualization of structural strain
10.1145/1240624.1240744
We present Senspectra, a computationally augmented physical modeling toolkit designed for sensing and visualization of structural strain. Senspectra seeks to explore a new direction in computational materiality, incorporating the material quality of malleable elements of an interface into its digital control structure....
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[ "Vincent Leclerc", "Amanda J. Parkes", "Hiroshi Ishii 0001" ]
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CHI
2,007
Task and social visualization in software development: evaluation of a prototype
10.1145/1240624.1240716
As open source development has evolved, differentiation of roles and increased sophistication of collaborative processes has occurred. Recently, we described coordination issues in software development and an interactive visualization tool called the Social Health Overview (SHO) developed to address them [12]. This pap...
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[ "Jason B. Ellis", "Shahtab Wahid", "Catalina Danis", "Wendy A. Kellogg" ]
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CHI
2,007
Voyagers and voyeurs: supporting asynchronous collaborative information visualization
10.1145/1240624.1240781
This paper describes mechanisms for asynchronous collaboration in the context of information visualization, recasting visualizations as not just analytic tools, but social spaces. We contribute the design and implementation of sense.us, a web site supporting asynchronous collaboration across a variety of visualization ...
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[ "Jeffrey Heer", "Fernanda B. Viégas", "Martin Wattenberg" ]
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CHI
2,007
White rooms and morphing don't mix: setting and the evaluation of visualization techniques
10.1145/1240624.1240640
The results presented in this paper illustrate how a specific map visualization technique is sensitive to setting: a comparative evaluation of the technique gives conflicting results depending on where it takes place. While prior research has explored the impact of factors other than basic visual perception on visualiz...
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[ "Derek F. Reilly", "Kori M. Inkpen" ]
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Vis
2,006
A Generic and Scalable Pipeline for GPU Tetrahedral Grid Rendering
10.1109/TVCG.2006.110
Recent advances in algorithms and graphics hardware have opened the possibility to render tetrahedral grids at interactive rates on commodity PCs. This paper extends on this work in that it presents a direct volume rendering method for such grids which supports both current and upcoming graphics hardware architectures,...
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[ "Joachim Georgii", "Rüdiger Westermann" ]
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Vis
2,006
A Novel Visualization Model for Web Search Results
10.1109/TVCG.2006.111
This paper presents an interactive visualization system, named WebSearchViz, for visualizing the Web search results and facilitating users' navigation and exploration. The metaphor in our model is the solar system with its planets and asteroids revolving around the sun. Location, color, movement, and spatial distance o...
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[ "Tien Nguyen", "Jun Zhang" ]
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Vis
2,006
A Pipeline for Computer Aided Polyp Detection
10.1109/TVCG.2006.112
We present a novel pipeline for computer-aided detection (CAD) of colonic polyps by integrating texture and shape analysis with volume rendering and conformal colon flattening. Using our automatic method, the 3D polyp detection problem is converted into a 2D pattern recognition problem. The colon surface is first segme...
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[ "Wei Hong 0006", "Feng Qiu", "Arie E. Kaufman" ]
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Vis
2,006
A Spectral Analysis of Function Composition and its Implications for Sampling in Direct Volume Visualization
10.1109/TVCG.2006.113
In this paper we investigate the effects of function composition in the form g(f(x)) = h(x) by means of a spectral analysis of h. We decompose the spectral description of h(x) into a scalar product of the spectral description of g(x) and a term that solely depends on f(x) and that is independent of g(x). We then use th...
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[ "Steven Bergner", "Torsten Möller", "Daniel Weiskopf", "David J. Muraki" ]
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Vis
2,006
A Trajectory-Preserving Synchronization Method for Collaborative Visualization
10.1109/TVCG.2006.114
In the past decade, a lot of research work has been conducted to support collaborative visualization among remote users over the networks, allowing them to visualize and manipulate shared data for problem solving. There are many applications of collaborative visualization, such as oceanography, meteorology and medical ...
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[ "Lewis W. F. Li", "Frederick W. B. Li", "Rynson W. H. Lau" ]
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Vis
2,006
Ambient Occlusion and Edge Cueing for Enhancing Real Time Molecular Visualization
10.1109/TVCG.2006.115
The paper presents a set of combined techniques to enhance the real-time visualization of simple or complex molecules (up to order of 10<sup>6</sup> atoms) space fill mode. The proposed approach includes an innovative technique for efficient computation and storage of ambient occlusion terms, a small set of...
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[ "Marco Tarini", "Paolo Cignoni", "Claudio Montani" ]
[ "TT" ]
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Vis
2,006
An Advanced Evenly-Spaced Streamline Placement Algorithm
10.1109/TVCG.2006.116
This paper presents an advanced evenly-spaced streamline placement algorithm for fast, high-quality, and robust layout of flow lines. A fourth-order Runge-Kutta integrator with adaptive step size and error control is employed for rapid accurate streamline advection. Cubic Hermite polynomial interpolation with large sam...
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[ "Zhanping Liu", "Robert J. Moorhead II", "Joe Groner" ]
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Vis
2,006
An Atmospheric Visual Analysis and Exploration System
10.1109/TVCG.2006.117
Meteorological research involves the analysis of multi-field, multi-scale, and multi-source data sets. Unfortunately, traditional atmospheric visualization systems only provide tools to view a limited number of variables and small segments of the data. These tools are often restricted to 2D contour or vector plots or 3...
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[ "Yuyan Song", "Jing Ye", "Nikolai A. Svakhine", "Sonia Lasher-Trapp", "Mike Baldwin", "David S. Ebert" ]
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Vis
2,006
Analyzing Complex FTMS Simulations: a Case Study in High-Level Visualization of Ion Motions
10.1109/TVCG.2006.118
Current practice in particle visualization renders particle position data directly onto the screen as points or glyphs. Using a camera placed at a fixed position, particle motions can be visualized by rendering trajectories or by animations. Applying such direct techniques to large, time dependent particle data sets of...
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[ "Wojciech Burakiewicz", "Robert van Liere" ]
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Vis
2,006
Analyzing Vortex Breakdown Flow Structures by Assignment of Colors to Tensor Invariants
10.1109/TVCG.2006.119
Topological methods are often used to describe flow structures in fluid dynamics and topological flow field analysis usually relies on the invariants of the associated tensor fields. A visual impression of the local properties of tensor fields is often complex and the search of a suitable technique for achieving this i...
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[ "Markus Rütten", "Min S. Chong" ]
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Vis
2,006
Asynchronous Distributed Calibration for Scalable and Reconfigurable Multi-Projector Displays
10.1109/TVCG.2006.121
Centralized techniques have been used until now when automatically calibrating (both geometrically and photometrically) large high-resolution displays created by tiling multiple projectors in a 2D array. A centralized server managed all the projectors and also the camera(s) used to calibrate the display. In this paper,...
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[ "Ezekiel S. Bhasker", "Pinaki Sinha", "Aditi Majumder" ]
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Vis
2,006
Caricaturistic Visualization
10.1109/TVCG.2006.123
Caricatures are pieces of art depicting persons or sociological conditions in a non-veridical way. In both cases caricatures are referring to a reference model. The deviations from the reference model are the characteristic features of the depicted subject. Good caricatures exaggerate the characteristics of a subject i...
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[ "Peter Rautek", "Ivan Viola", "M. Eduard Gröller" ]
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Vis
2,006
ClearView: An Interactive Context Preserving Hotspot Visualization Technique
10.1109/TVCG.2006.124
Volume rendered imagery often includes a barrage of 3D information like shape, appearance and topology of complex structures, and it thus quickly overwhelms the user. In particular, when focusing on a specific region a user cannot observe the relationship between various structures unless he has a mental picture of the...
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[ "Jens H. Krüger", "Jens Schneider 0002", "Rüdiger Westermann" ]
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Vis
2,006
Comparative Visualization for Wave-based and Geometric Acoustics
10.1109/TVCG.2006.125
We present a comparative visualization of the acoustic simulation results obtained by two different approaches that were combined into a single simulation algorithm. The first method solves the wave equation on a volume grid based on finite elements. The second method, phonon tracing, is a geometric approach that we ha...
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[ "Eduard Deines", "Martin Hering-Bertram", "Jan Mohring", "Jevgenijs Jegorovs", "Frank Michel 0001", "Hans Hagen", "Gregory M. Nielson" ]
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Vis
2,006
Composite Rectilinear Deformation for Stretch and Squish Navigation
10.1109/TVCG.2006.127
We present the first scalable algorithm that supports the composition of successive rectilinear deformations. Earlier systems that provided stretch and squish navigation could only handle small datasets. More recent work featuring rubber sheet navigation for large datasets has focused on rendering and on application-sp...
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[ "James Slack", "Tamara Munzner" ]
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Vis
2,006
Concurrent Visualization in a Production Supercomputing Environment
10.1109/TVCG.2006.128
We describe a concurrent visualization pipeline designed for operation in a production supercomputing environment. The facility was initially developed on the NASA Ames "Columbia" supercomputer for a massively parallel forecast model (GEOS4). During the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, GEOS4 was run 4 times a day under ...
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[ "David Ellsworth", "Bryan Green", "Chris Henze", "Patrick J. Moran", "Timothy Sandstrom" ]
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