COSC 686: Computer Graphics: Information Visualization

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Spring 2007 - Readings

Direct links to papers are provided wherever possible. Papers that do not have links, or that have links to resources that require subscrciption, can be found on the course e-reserve page.

Overviews of Info Vis

National Visualization and Analytics Center, Illuminating the Path: The Research and Development Agenda for Visual Analytics

Card S., Macklinay, J., and Shneiderman B (1999) Information Visualization, Chapter 1 in Readings In Information Viualization: Using Vision To Think

Taxonomies, Theories, and Models

Amar, R. , Stasko, J. (2004) A Knowledge Task-Based Framework for Design and Evaluation of Information Visualizations IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization InfoVis 2004, 143-150.

Tory, M., and Möller, T. (2004) Rethinking Visualization: A High-Level Taxonomy IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2004, Oct. 2004, 151-158.

Shneiderman, B. (1996) The eyes have it: a task by data type taxonomy for information visualizations IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, Boulder,CO, USA, 336-343.

Baldonado, M., Woodruff, A., and Kuchinsky, A. (2000) Guidelines for using multiple views in information visualization Proceedings of the ACM workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces 2000, 110-119.

Overview + Detail Displays

Plaisant, C., Carr ,D .and Shneiderman, B. Image-browser taxonomy and guidelines for designers IEEE Software 12(2), March 1995. 21-32.

Distortions and Fisheyes

Sarkar, M. and Brown, M. (1994) Graphical fisheye views Communications of the ACM, 37(12) December 1994, 73-83.

Furnas, G. (1986) Generalized Fisheye Views SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, 16-23.

G. Furnas (2006) A fisheye follow-up: further reflections on focus + context SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, 999-1008.

Multivariate Data

Tory, M., Potts, S., and Möller, T. (2005)A Parallel Coordinates Style Interface for Exploratory Volume Visualization IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 11(1) Jan./Feb. 2005, pp. 71-80.

Inselberg, A. (1997) Multidimensional Detective Proceedings 1997 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization - InfoVis '97

Seo, J. and Shneiderman, B. (2005) A rank-by-feature framework for interactive exploration of multidimensional data Information Visualization 4, 96-113.

Ahlberg, C. and Wistrand, E. (1995) IVEE: an Information Visualization and Exploration Environment.Proc. IEEE InfoVis 1995, 66-73.

Keim, D.A., Kriegel, H-P. (1994) VisDB: database exploration using multidimensional visualization, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 14(5), 40-49.

Yi, Ji- S., Melton, R., Stasko, J., Jacko, J. (2005) Dust & Magnet: multivariate information visualization using a magnet metaphor Information Visualization 4(2), 239-256.

Temporal Data

Lin, J., Keogh, E., and Lonardi, S. (2005) Visualizing and discovering non-trivial patterns in large time series databases Information Visualization 4(2), 61-82.

Hochheiser, H. and Shneiderman, B. (2004) Dynamic query tools for time series data sets: Timebox widgets for interactive exploration Information Visualization 3(1), 1-18.

Hierarchical Data

Bederson, B., Shneiderman, B. and Wattenberg, M. (2002). Ordered and quantum treemaps: Making effective use of 2D space to display hierarchies ACM Transactions on Graphics, 21(4) , October 2002, 833-854.

Lamping, J., Rao, R., and Pirolli, P. (1995) A focus+context technique based on hyperbolic geometry for visualizing large hierarchies ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 401-408.

Plaisant, C., Grosjean, J., and Bederson, B. (2002) SpaceTree: Supporting Exploration in Large Node Link Tree, Design Evolution and Empirical Evaluation IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis '02), p.57

Wang, W., Wang, H., Dai,G., and Wang H. (2006) Visualization of large hierarchical data by circle packing ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 517-520.

Zho, S., McGuffin, M.J., Chignell, M.H. (2006) Elastic Hierarchies: Combining Treemaps and Node-Link Diagrams 2005 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization

Network Data

Shneiderman, B., and Aris, A. (2006) Network Visaulization by Semantic Substrates IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 12(5), 733-740.

van Ham, F., and van Wijk, J. (2004) Interactive Visualization of Small-World Graphs IEEE Information Visualization Symposium (INFOVIS '04), 199-206.

Kunz, C., Botsch, V., Ziegler, J., Spath, D. (2003). Contextualizing Search Results in Networked Directories Proceedings HCI International .

Robertson, G., Cameron, K., Czerwinski, M., and Robbins, D. (2002) Polyarchy visualization: visualizing multiple intersecting hierarchies SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 423-430.

Robertson, G., Czerwinski, M., and Churchill, J. (2005) Visualization of mappings between schemas SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 431-439.

Wattenberg, M. (2006) Visual exploration of multivariate graphs SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 811-819.

Documents and Co-Citation

Havre, S., Hetzler, E., Whitney, P., and Nowell, L. (2002) ThemeRiver: Visualizing Thematic Changes in Large Document Collections IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 8(1), 9-20.

Lee, B., Czerwinski, M., Robertson, G. Bederson, B. (2005) Understanding research trends in conferences using paperLens SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1969-1972.

Coordinated Windows

North, C., Conklin, N., Saini, V. (2002) Visualization schemas for flexible information visualization IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, 2002. InfoVis 2002, 15-22.

Images

Yee, K-P., Swearingen, K., Li, Kevin, Hearst, M. (2003) Faceted metadata for image search and browsing SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 401-408.

2D vs. 3D

Cockburn, A., and McKenzie, B. (2002) Evaluating the effectiveness of spatial memory in 2D and 3D physical and virtual environments ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 203-210.

Shneiderman, B. (2003) Why not make interfaces better than 3D reality? IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 23(6), Nov-Dec, 12-15.

Evaluation

Tory, M.and Möller, T. (2005).Evaluating Visualizations: Do Expert Reviews Work IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 25 (5), Sept./Oct. 2005, pp.8-11.

Pirolli, P., Card, S., Van Der Wege, M. (2001) Visual information foraging in a focus + context visualization ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 506-513.

Kobsa, A. (2001) An Empirical Comparison of Three Commercial Information Visualization Systems IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, 2001, p. 123

Plaisant, C. (2004) The challenge of information visualization evaluation Proceedings of the ACM working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, 109-116.

Saraiya, P., North, C., and Duca, K. (2005) Visualizing biological pathways: requirements analysis, systems evaluation and research agenda Information Visualization 4(3), 191-205.

Saraiya, P., Lee, P., North, C. (2005) Visualization of graphs with associated timeseries data IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, InfoVis 2005, 225-232.

Color

MacDonald, L.W. (1999) Using color effectively in computer graphics IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 19(4), July-August 1999, 20-35.

Tory, M. and Möller, T. (2004) Human Factors In Visualization Research IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 10(1), Jan./Feb. 2004, pp. 72-84.

Interaction Techniques

Shneiderman, B. (1994), Dynamic Queries for Visual Information Seeking IEEE Software, 11(6), 70-77. Fishkin, K., Stone, M. (1995) Enhanced dynamic queries via movable filters SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 415-420

Zooming and Panning

Furnas, G. and Bederson, B. (1995) Space-scale diagrams: understanding multiscale interfaces SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, 234-241.

Bederson, B (2001) PhotoMesa: a zoomable image browser using quantum treemaps and bubblemaps Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, 71-80.

Toolkits & Software Engineering

Heer, J. and Agrawala, M. (2006) Software Design Patterns for Information Visualization , IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 12(5) September-October 2006, 853-860.

Fekete, J-D. (2004) The InfoVis Toolkit IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization InfoVis 2004, 167-174.

Bederson, B., Grosjean, J., Meyer, J. (2004) Toolkit Design for Interactive Structured Graphics IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 30(8), August 2004, 535-546.

Heer, J., Card, s., and Landay, J. (2005) prefuse: a toolkit for interactive information visualizationACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 421-430

Small Devices

Bederson, B., Clamage, A., Czerwinski, M., and Robertson, G. (2004) DateLens: A fisheye calendar interface for PDAs ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 11(1) March 2004, 90-119.

Large Displays

Yost, B., and North, C. (2006) The Perceptual Scalability of Visualization IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, September, October 2006 12(5).

Universal Usability

Plaisant, C. (2005). Information Visualization and the Challenge of Universal Usability. In Exploring Geovisualization (Eds, J. Dykes, A. MacEachren and M.J. Kraak), Oxford: Elsevier,p. 53-82.