{"title":"Shape of the story: story visualization techniques","authors":"Xin Zeng, Q. Mehdi, N. Gough","doi":"10.1109/IV.2003.1217971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2003.1217971","url":null,"abstract":"There is now a growing awareness of the possibilities for application of natural language in the computing domain by incorporating knowledge of human-to-human interaction. We present an approach that aims to bridge the gap between scripting/storyboarding by a nontechnical creative writer and rendering characters and scenes by a graphics specialist. Natural language processing (NLP) and 3D graphic presentation is used to manipulate 3D scenes in real time. The proposed technique offers a flexible and easy way to generate an interactive 3DVE as compared with traditional 3D packages.","PeriodicalId":259374,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings on Seventh International Conference on Information Visualization, 2003. IV 2003.","volume":"SE-12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126578134","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 fast focus+context viewing technique for the navigation of classical hierarchical layout","authors":"Quang Vinh Nguyen, M. Huang","doi":"10.1109/IV.2003.1217955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2003.1217955","url":null,"abstract":"We present a fast focus+context viewing technique for the navigation of classical hierarchical layouts. In these layout techniques, only one dimension is considerably important to the visualization. Based on this property, we consider only one dimension of distortion of views for browsing the hierarchical structures. We firstly introduce briefly some information visualization techniques. We then discuss the features, advantages and limitations of layout and navigation of current classical hierarchical layouts. We finally introduce our new focus+context technique that is simple and fast for the navigation and exploration of the classical hierarchical layouts.","PeriodicalId":259374,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings on Seventh International Conference on Information Visualization, 2003. IV 2003.","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114208736","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":"Interactive virtual reconstructions: visualization and user interface design for installations in public venues","authors":"Alan Price","doi":"10.1109/IV.2003.1217998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2003.1217998","url":null,"abstract":"We present two case studies in which the objective was to accurately reconstruct a historically significant place no longer accessible to the public due to complete or partial destruction of the original environment. In both cases the desire was to present the reconstructions in a public venue for the purpose of enlightenment; to engage the audience in a deeper understanding of the information being presented in a museum environment and to put in context the artifacts seen in a collection with the source in which they originated. The objective was to build an interactive application in which the viewer can intuitively navigate the reconstructed space with an emphasis on conveying the content of the work in a relatively short amount of time.","PeriodicalId":259374,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings on Seventh International Conference on Information Visualization, 2003. IV 2003.","volume":"50 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120900966","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":"Visual simulation of refraction phenomena in the Earth's atmosphere","authors":"Jaroslav Sloup","doi":"10.1109/IV.2003.1218024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2003.1218024","url":null,"abstract":"We present a simple method for visual simulation of refraction phenomena in the Earth's atmosphere. The method divides the atmosphere into a set of spherical layers and the rays are approximated by circular arcs within the layers. The curvature of arcs is related to the variations of the refractive index. The path of the ray through the atmosphere is found by intersecting the circular arcs with the layers boundaries. The curved rays produce the shape and position distortions of the objects observed through the atmosphere. Depending on the type of distortion we distinguish a large variety of refractive phenomena such as mirages, omega sunsets, fata morgana, green flashes, etc. The described method has been embedded into the simple ray tracer and some images are shown to demonstrate our approach.","PeriodicalId":259374,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings on Seventh International Conference on Information Visualization, 2003. IV 2003.","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122424419","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":"Planarity testing for graphs represented by a rotation scheme","authors":"Andrea Donafee, C. Maple","doi":"10.1109/IV.2003.1218030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2003.1218030","url":null,"abstract":"Many algorithms exist to determine if a given graph can be embedded in a plane [G. Di Battistia et al., (1994)]. The majority of these methods, however, are only valid for simple graphs and do not take into account the order of edges emanating from each vertex. There are many areas, such as communication design, genetics, group theory, network optimisation and VLSI, where the ordering of edges is crucial to the representation of a system. Rotation schemes can be used to store the ordering of edges around a vertex. Let G be an arbitrary, possibly nonsimple, graph. We provide an algorithm that determines, from the rotation scheme of G, if G can be embedded in the plane. If the rotation scheme of G can be realised by a planar drawing, the regions of G are returned.","PeriodicalId":259374,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings on Seventh International Conference on Information Visualization, 2003. IV 2003.","volume":"461 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122806947","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 visual formalism for graphical user interfaces based on state transition diagrams","authors":"C. Maple, Timothy French, M. Conrad","doi":"10.1109/IV.2003.1217977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2003.1217977","url":null,"abstract":"We present a \"lightweight\" visual formalism that can be used to examine the state space complexity of an interface. The method can form a basis for designing, testing and documenting the 'front-end' component of a typical GUI forms based interface. The standard is intended to be free standing and seeks to address issues specific to forms based GUI interfaces. The method is based on a state transition diagram (STD) notation that is used to model the GUI component. STDs can be used at an early stage in the design of an interface to quantify and control surface level complexity. Further to allowing a visualisation of the complexity of an interface, techniques used in graph theory are applied to determine a novel measure of complexity that can then be used to better usability.","PeriodicalId":259374,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings on Seventh International Conference on Information Visualization, 2003. IV 2003.","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115029351","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":"Exploring Web site log data with a multi-classification interface","authors":"M. Sifer","doi":"10.1109/IV.2003.1217963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2003.1217963","url":null,"abstract":"Many interface designs have been developed for the exploration of multidimensional data sets, many based on finding subsets by filtering attribute values independently or successively. However, many of these interfaces do not also support the use of hierarchies for selection and summarisation. We show how an interface that uses coordinated hierarchy views of data supports the exploration of such data. Our interface is demonstrated with our SGViewer tool and a Web site log dataset where visits to a Web site have been organised into time, downloads, visitor address and referrer address dimensions. A configurable nested tree visualisation is used to present each dimension hierarchy. We show how both rapid and flexible exploration of this data is supported by our interface.","PeriodicalId":259374,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings on Seventh International Conference on Information Visualization, 2003. IV 2003.","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116232628","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 new algorithm for transitive closures and computation of recursion in relational databases","authors":"Yangjun Chen","doi":"10.1109/IV.2003.1217981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2003.1217981","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a new algorithm for computing recursive closures. The main idea behind this algorithm is tree labeling and graph decomposition, based on which the transitive closure of a directed graph can be computed in O(e/spl middot/d/sub max//spl middot/d/sub out/) time and in O(n/spl middot/d/sub max//spl middot/d/sub out/) space, where n is the number of the nodes of the graph, e is the numbers of the edges, d/sub max/ is the maximal indegree of the nodes, and d/sub out/ is the average outdegree of the nodes. Especially, this method can be used to efficiently compute recursive relationships of a directed graph in a relational environment.","PeriodicalId":259374,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings on Seventh International Conference on Information Visualization, 2003. IV 2003.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125834640","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":"Layout metrics for Euler diagrams","authors":"J. Flower, P. Rodgers, P. Mutton","doi":"10.1109/IV.2003.1217990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2003.1217990","url":null,"abstract":"We present an aesthetics based method for drawing Euler diagrams. Aesthetic layout metrics have been found to be useful in graph drawing algorithms, which use metrics motivated by aesthetic principles that aid user understanding of diagrams. We have taken a similar approach to Euler diagram drawing, and have defined a set of suitable metrics to be used within a hill climbing multicriteria optimiser to produce \"good\" drawings. There are added difficulties when drawing Euler diagrams as they are made up of contours whose structural properties of intersection and containment must be preserved under any layout improvements. We describe our Java implementation of a pair of hill climbing variants to find good drawings, a set of metrics that measure aesthetics for good diagram layout, and issues concerning the choice of weightings for a useful combination of the metrics.","PeriodicalId":259374,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings on Seventh International Conference on Information Visualization, 2003. IV 2003.","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124630971","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":"Requirements of deaf user of information visualization an interdisciplinary approach","authors":"D. Burmeister","doi":"10.1109/IV.2003.1218021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2003.1218021","url":null,"abstract":"In literature exist many links to translation of speech into sign language and links to gesturing with avatars. But we cannot get any link to a visualization of background knowledge which deaf people are lacking. The author himself is hearing impaired. Therefore he knows of the importance of a good visualization of information needed to get the correct mental model. He claims that gesturing with avatars should be supplemented by visualization of background-knowledge. Based on the distinction between data, information and knowledge it is shown that efforts must be directed toward the visualization of complex, interlaced and situation-aware data to get the requirements of deaf people in a right manner.","PeriodicalId":259374,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings on Seventh International Conference on Information Visualization, 2003. IV 2003.","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124669181","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}