{"title":"Working with patterns in large multivariate datasets - Karnaugh-Veitch-Maps revisited","authors":"T. May","doi":"10.1109/IV.2007.145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2007.145","url":null,"abstract":"We present an interactive visualization method for the multivariate analysis of large and complex datasets, based on the layout of Karnaugh-Veitch-diagrams. Working on data categories, we additionally provide an interactive partitioning of value ranges of ordinal types. Multivariate dependencies manifest on the map in characteristic color patterns. These patterns are representations of subsets of the data or attributes which embody significant information. While the task of the user is to identify visual patterns of particular interest to him by clicking on the map, the software identifies a minimal representation of the corresponding subset and gives a visual feedback. Hence, user and machine cooperate on the basis of a strong visual coupling in short iterative cycles. During this process the trade-off between the accuracy and simplicity of a representation, which is crucial for any type of the building of analytical models, can be found in an effective way.","PeriodicalId":177429,"journal":{"name":"2007 11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV '07)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130489350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Backlund, H. Engström, M. Johannesson, Mikael Lebram
{"title":"Games and Traffic Safety - an Experimental Study in a Game-Based Simulation Environment","authors":"P. Backlund, H. Engström, M. Johannesson, Mikael Lebram","doi":"10.1109/IV.2007.54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2007.54","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we report results from an experimental study of games and traffic safety performed in an advanced gaming environment. During car simulator-sessions we collected data over different traffic safety variables, such as speed, headway distance and lane change behavior, from 70 subjects. The data was analyzed in order to investigate possible individual learning effects and differences between groupings of subjects. The experiment shows clear positive individual learning effects for all traffic safety variables analyzed. Hence we conclude that game based simulations can be used to enhance learning in driving education.","PeriodicalId":177429,"journal":{"name":"2007 11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV '07)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129019910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Buono, C. Plaisant, A. Simeone, Aleks Aris, Galit Shmueli, Wolfgang Jank
{"title":"Similarity-Based Forecasting with Simultaneous Previews: A River Plot Interface for Time Series Forecasting","authors":"P. Buono, C. Plaisant, A. Simeone, Aleks Aris, Galit Shmueli, Wolfgang Jank","doi":"10.1109/IV.2007.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2007.101","url":null,"abstract":"Time-series forecasting has a large number of applications. Users with a partial time series for auctions, new stock offerings, or industrial processes desire estimates of the future behavior. We present a data driven forecasting method and interface called similarity-based forecasting (SBF). A pattern matching search in an historical time series dataset produces a subset of curves similar to the partial time series. The forecast is displayed graphically as a river plot showing statistical information about the SBF subset. A forecasting preview interface allows users to interactively explore alternative pattern matching parameters and see multiple forecasts simultaneously. User testing with 8 users demonstrated advantages and led to improvements.","PeriodicalId":177429,"journal":{"name":"2007 11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV '07)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117163100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating Two Visualization Techniques for Genome Comparison","authors":"M. Henley, Mikkel Hagen, R. Bergeron","doi":"10.1109/IV.2007.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2007.47","url":null,"abstract":"Genomic study is fairly novel. Typical research processes are not established yet. Many new discoveries are happening in this area all the time. Are current methods of visualizations effective? What works well? What could be improved? These are some of the questions we are interested in evaluating for two graphical tools used to compare nucleotide sequences. Scatter plots and parallel coordinate-like visuals have been used in genomics for identifying similarities in genetic code. Our preliminary evaluation focuses on determining the aspects of the two visualizations that are successful and those that need enhancements.","PeriodicalId":177429,"journal":{"name":"2007 11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV '07)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132631274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating the Comprehension of Euler Diagrams","authors":"Florence Benoy, P. Rodgers","doi":"10.1109/IV.2007.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2007.45","url":null,"abstract":"We describe an empirical investigation into layout criteria that can help with the comprehension of Euler diagrams. Euler diagrams are used to represent set inclusion in applications such as teaching set theory, database querying, software engineering, filing system organisation and bio-informatics. Research in automatically laying out Euler diagrams for use with these applications is at an early stage, and our work attempts to aid this research by informing layout designers about the importance of various Euler diagram aesthetic criteria. The three criteria under investigation were: contour jaggedness, zone area inequality and edge closeness. Subjects were asked to interpret diagrams with different combinations of levels for each of the criteria. Results for this investigation indicate that, within the parameters of the study, all three criteria are important for understanding Euler diagrams and we have a preliminary indication of the ordering of their importance.","PeriodicalId":177429,"journal":{"name":"2007 11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV '07)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131246518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visualising Australian Indigenous Knowledge Practices Using The Game Engine","authors":"T. Wyeld","doi":"10.1109/IV.2007.128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2007.128","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the communicating of Australian Indigenous knowledge practices using a 3D game engine. It provides an overview background of Australian Aboriginal cultural heritage and how it has been traditionally articulated; the embedding of storytelling as a knowledge exchange medium in 'country' (sacred and spiritual lands) re-presented in a game engine; and, notions of the efficacies of this method as a knowledge visualisation schema that has application in other fields. It will address some of the more inaccessible questions raised as key challenges for information visualisation in general.","PeriodicalId":177429,"journal":{"name":"2007 11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV '07)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125264126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exemplifying the Inter-Disciplinary Nature of Visualization Research","authors":"R. Erbacher","doi":"10.1109/IV.2007.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2007.49","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes an interdisciplinary design process for the development of novel visualization techniques and discusses requirements for ensuring that such a process results in effective techniques which meet the demands of a the target user base. In essence, we are attempting to make explicit the process by which many researchers implicitly design visualizations and urge for greater explicit collaborations between fields to improve the effectiveness of visualization design. This process is dependent on the application of cognitive psychology, art and architecture, domain experts, and target users. We discuss how such a wide and disparate group must work together in an integrated fashion within the design process. We lay out the process itself as well as typical design goals. Given the importance of perception, we highlight the impact of perception, and thus cognitive psychology, on the visual interpretation process.","PeriodicalId":177429,"journal":{"name":"2007 11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV '07)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126627237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GeoDDupe: A Novel Interface for Interactive Entity Resolution in Geospatial Data","authors":"Hyunmo Kang, V. Sehgal, L. Getoor","doi":"10.1109/IV.2007.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2007.55","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the growing interest in geospatial data mining and analysis, data cleaning and integration in geospatial data is becoming an important issue. Geospatial entity resolution is the process of reconciling multiple location references to the same real world location within a single data source (deduplication) or across multiple data sources (integration). In this paper, we introduce an interactive tool called GeoDDupe which effectively combines automatic data mining algorithms for geospatial entity resolution with a novel network visualization supporting users' resolution analysis and decisions. We illustrate the GeoDDupe interface with an example geospatial dataset and show how users can efficiently and accurately resolve location entities. Finally, the case study with two real-world geospatial datasets demonstrates the potential of GeoDDupe.","PeriodicalId":177429,"journal":{"name":"2007 11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV '07)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124006853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Comparative Study of Four Hierarchy Browsers using the Hierarchical Visualisation Testing Environment (HVTE)","authors":"K. Andrews, Janka Kasanicka","doi":"10.1109/IV.2007.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2007.8","url":null,"abstract":"Four hierarchy browsers were compared in a counterbalanced repeated measures study with 32 test users. The four browsers tested were in-house implementations of 1) a Windows Explorer style tree view, 2) an information pyramids browser, 3) a treemap browser, and 4 ) a hyperbolic browser. Each user performed eight tasks with each browser. Task completion time, subjective ratings, and overall preference data were collected. Almost no significant differences in performance were found, but users significantly preferred the tree view browser. The four browsers are implemented as part of the hierarchical visualisation system (HVS), a Java framework for visualising hierarchies. The hierarchical visualisation testing environment (HVTE) is a semi-automated testing environment built on top of HVS, which presents a sequence of tasks from a test case database to the user, together with an associated browser and test hierarchy, and automates the collection of timing data.","PeriodicalId":177429,"journal":{"name":"2007 11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV '07)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121864780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Real-Time Data and Analysis of the Use of Office Space","authors":"J. Counsell, M. Puybaraud","doi":"10.1109/IV.2007.91","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2007.91","url":null,"abstract":"Ambient Intelligent Systems have been proposed for their potential to track collaborative activities in the workplace, capture them, and in real time respond to them. The longer term goal is to develop embedded technologies that provide intelligent feedback in predictable office environments but also address the unpredictable working environments of nomadic knowledge workers and of remote workers engaged in virtual collaboration with those physically present. Some of these systems are relatively close to market and others are less immediately applicable. This paper suggests that a heterogeneous mix of such systems is likely to be necessary for some time to come. A prototype real time location system for mapping the real-time location of workers in offices has been developed by Johnson Controls. During tests it has been found to positively assist in gathering information for better management of space and support of collaborative activity. This has proved to justify the costs.","PeriodicalId":177429,"journal":{"name":"2007 11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV '07)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122129656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}