{"title":"Sphere-based Information Visualization: Challenges and Benefits","authors":"R. Brath, P. MacMurchy","doi":"10.1109/IV.2012.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2012.11","url":null,"abstract":"Use of a sphere as a basis for organizing an information visualization should balance issues such as occlusion against potential useful benefits such as natural navigational affordances and perceptual connotations of an application.","PeriodicalId":264951,"journal":{"name":"2012 16th International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"149 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124149678","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":"Automated Usability Measurement of Arbitrary Desktop Application with Eyetracking","authors":"Pavol Fabo, R. Durikovic","doi":"10.1109/IV.2012.105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2012.105","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays in software development process more attention is paid to the final usability of the product. To achieve such usability we use various methods from user centered design up to the usability evaluation methods, requiring much attention from usability experts. The presense of these experts are needed both during capturing and analysing usability data, which eventually costs too much. We propose a tool for automated data capturing during user tests as well as a captured data analysis in order to evaluate the recorded interaction and guide the attention of software developers. Furthermore we provide a simple statistics of user tests as well as a means to browse recorded data with the interaction context extended with eye tracking data.","PeriodicalId":264951,"journal":{"name":"2012 16th International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122518935","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}
Jie Hua, M. Huang, Weidong Huang, Junhu Wang, Quang Vinh Nguyen
{"title":"Force-directed Graph Visualization with Pre-positioning - Improving Convergence Time and Quality of Layout","authors":"Jie Hua, M. Huang, Weidong Huang, Junhu Wang, Quang Vinh Nguyen","doi":"10.1109/IV.2012.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2012.31","url":null,"abstract":"Modern visual analytics tools provide mechanism for users to gain unknown knowledge through effective visual interactions for user to quickly understand the progress of algorithms and adjust the input parameters on intermediate visualizations that towards the production of most satisfied outcome. This requires the quick production of a sequence of graph visualizations. However, the traditional force-directed graph drawing algorithms are very slow to reach an equilibrium configuration of forces. They usually spend tens of seconds producing the layout of a graph converge. Thus, they do not satisfy the requirement of rapid drawing of graphs. This paper proposes a fast convergence method for drawing force-directed graphs. We essentially pre-calculate the geometrical position of all vertices before applying a force-directed layout algorithm to reach the energy minimization of the graph layout. The experimental results have shown that this approach could not only reduce the convergence time but also the number of edge crossings that approves the quality of layout significantly.","PeriodicalId":264951,"journal":{"name":"2012 16th International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"44 20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115901493","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}
S. Ait-Aoudia, R. Mahiou, Hamza Djebli, Elhachemi Guerrout
{"title":"Satellite and Aerial Image Mosaicing - A Comparative Insight","authors":"S. Ait-Aoudia, R. Mahiou, Hamza Djebli, Elhachemi Guerrout","doi":"10.1109/IV.2012.113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2012.113","url":null,"abstract":"Image registration or image stitching is a central operation in many useful and important tasks in image processing like maps construction, scanning large documents and panoramic photos creation. In particular image mosaicing is used to assemble several overlapping images in order to constitute the global frame. We will focus on a feature-point matching method to perform the mosaicing. The SIFT algorithm is used to extract the feature points in both images. The mosaicing result is obtained after transforming the sensed or target image to align to the reference image. Performing a mosaicing operation is not sufficient to claim reaching the goal. Objective metrics must be used to evaluate the resulting mosaic. In this paper we present a complete mosaicing system named EsiReg and give a brief comparative insight on results of stitching satellite and aerial images using well known performance metrics.","PeriodicalId":264951,"journal":{"name":"2012 16th International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123073716","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":"Adding a Semantic Layer to Flickr Images Search Service","authors":"Davide Barbuto, Gaetano Contaldi, S. Senatore","doi":"10.1109/IV.2012.62","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2012.62","url":null,"abstract":"The growing amount of images on the Web, the diffusion of social media sharing web sites demand effective tools for searching targeted images. In general, the performance of Web image search depends on the quality of images annotation, but often the keywords (or tags) associated to an image are given without relevance information, strictly connected to a subjective feeling of the taggers and far from the objective description of the image. In this paper, we propose a simple approach for social media sharing web sites such as Flickr, Zooomr, etc. to support users to retrieve images semantically correlated to a given tagged image. In this paper, we present an application scenario for Flickr: in general Flickr returns all the images that meets the input tags, without no semantic analysis and evaluation of the effectiveness of the search results. Our approach adds a semantic layer on the Flickr output: processes the tags associated to the retuned images to discover the appropriate semantics of them, by arranging the results in a more user friendly view.","PeriodicalId":264951,"journal":{"name":"2012 16th International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127652531","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":"Traditional Settlements Boundary Visualization","authors":"Y. Miao, S. Chiou","doi":"10.1109/IV.2012.102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2012.102","url":null,"abstract":"To control the space is an important task in preserving cultural heritage. For example, the edge design of traditional settlements in historical cities and blocks determines the basic size, space and shape of the space. However, unlike the space designed in paper, the formation of edges of traditional settlements are the presentation of residents' public consciousness in the settlements, value orientation and behaviour law under the long-term historical influence, rather than the expression of the designer's personal moment will. This topic cites some traditional cities and settlements of Fujian sea system in China as example and use the boundary as research subject in order to present non-objective historical documents hidden in this system in details by researching documents, field study and chart analysis. The article also comes up with a new angle of research into Cultural Heritage Knowledge Visualization.","PeriodicalId":264951,"journal":{"name":"2012 16th International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129791002","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":"VersuS, The Digital Lives of Cities Transforms into Usable Interconnective Intelligence","authors":"Salvatore Iaconesi, Oriana Persico","doi":"10.1109/IV.2012.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2012.101","url":null,"abstract":"While we perform our daily tasks we reinterpret space and personalize it, according to tactics which reveal significant information about ourselves. We are now able to fill and stratify space/time with digital information layers, completely wrapping cities in a membrane of information and of opportunities for interaction and communication. Mobile devices, smartphones, wearables, digital tags, near field communication devices, location based services and mixed/augmented reality have turned the world into an essentially read/write, ubiquitous publishing surface. The usage of mobile devices and ubiquitous technologies alters the understanding of place. The scenario described in this paper sees urban spaces progressively filling with multiple layers of real-time, ubiquitous, digital information, creating usage cases in which urban narratives are read in different ways, highlighting how cities express points of view on the environment, culture, economy, transports, energy and politics. The research presented in this paper analyses multiple opportunities to capture, understand and visualize the real-time digital lives of cities, from a variety of points of view and objectives, dedicated to the needs of administrations, citizens and organizations, and to the possibility to transform these representations into a form of disseminated, ubiquitous, interconnective intelligence.","PeriodicalId":264951,"journal":{"name":"2012 16th International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"T165 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125413053","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 User-generated Data Visualization in the Accommodation Sector","authors":"E. Carvalho, M. Chaves","doi":"10.1109/IV.2012.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2012.42","url":null,"abstract":"An important part of our information-gathering behavior has always been to find out what other people think. People now actively use information technologies to seek out and understand the opinions of others. This is due to the availability and popularity of opinion-rich resources such as online review sites and blogs. The accommodation sector is one of those where the guest opinion dictates its future. This sector needs to adapt and update the services they offer to their guests in order to stay competitive. In this paper we outline the potential use of tree-oriented visual techniques to map 1500 online reviews collected from 50 small and medium hotels (SMH). Our goal is to deliver visually the results of these reviews as straightforward and intuitively as possible to the accommodation managers, enabling them use it to support their decision making.","PeriodicalId":264951,"journal":{"name":"2012 16th International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128363730","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}
Mariko Sasakura, Ayame Akagi, Akane Yamaoka, N. Matsumoto
{"title":"Visualizing Migration of Demographic Simulation in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Periods","authors":"Mariko Sasakura, Ayame Akagi, Akane Yamaoka, N. Matsumoto","doi":"10.1109/IV.2012.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2012.18","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we report two methods to visualize migration of people in an artificial society. The artificial society system we target have been developed for simulating demographic changes in prehistoric and protohistoric periods in Japan. The system is capable of long term simulation of demographic changes in and migration between areas. We visualize migration from two perspectives: global view and family view. Global view focuses on the flow of people in migration. Family view focuses family relations in migration and visualizes it with a graph.","PeriodicalId":264951,"journal":{"name":"2012 16th International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128449886","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":"Comparison of Emerging Information Visualization Tools for Higher Education","authors":"Marta Pinto, R. Raposo, F. Ramos","doi":"10.1109/IV.2012.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2012.27","url":null,"abstract":"Information Visualization online tools have gradually found its way into various contexts of use and Higher Education Institutions are not an exception. The considerable amount of data and information continuously produced in Higher Education Institutions provide Information Visualization professionals an interesting set of challenges which, if looked through a broader perspective all share a common goal: to assist and contribute to decision making. However, tools presently available, or in an ongoing stage, take different approaches regarding interface, interaction and goal design in Higher Education Institutions, Information Visualization tools. This paper presents a review and analysis of some Higher Education Institution Information Visualization online tools, according to an up-to-date theoretical framework. Its conclusions include some final thoughts on what is driving, or not, work and outcomes in this particular context of use.","PeriodicalId":264951,"journal":{"name":"2012 16th International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126806359","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}