{"title":"Visualizing and exploring large networked information spaces with matrix browser","authors":"J. Ziegler, C. Kunz, V. Botsch, J. Schneeberger","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028800","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new approach for visualizing and exploring large networked information structures which may represent, for instance, linked information resources or metadata structures such as ontologies. An interactive matrix display is used for showing relations between concepts and concept hierarchies displayed along the two axes of a matrix. The new approach also focuses on the engineering process to create these information networks. Initial user testing shows performance advantages as well as reduced visual search in comparison to conventional graph representations.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115851140","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":"IVPrototype - an information visualization prototype","authors":"M. B. Carmo, J. D. Cunha, A. Cláudio","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028772","url":null,"abstract":"IVPrototype is an information visualization prototype for the visualization of both geometrical and non-geometrical data. Our goal is to provide a generic system that automatically generates data visualization and dynamically adapts the interface according to the data in order to control the amount of information displayed. The information is organized in one or several information groups, which aggregate semantically related information. Icons and coloured surfaces are the visual mappings provided. Other features of this prototype are: a data independent architecture; several filtering mechanisms; use of degree of interest functions; automatic selection of icons based on scale factor and semantic criteria.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130271619","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":"Towards a visual interface for information visualization","authors":"Daryl H. Hepting","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028791","url":null,"abstract":"Information visualization, aided by ever more accessible computational resources, continues to grow in popularity and significance. The capability to generate complex imagery by computer is often necessary but not always sufficient to gain the desired insight. The success of a visual representation in a given context may be affected by many variables, not the least of which is the individual user's experience. Even if a precise relationship could be found between context and \"best\" visual representation, the complete articulation of a context is practically impossible. In other fields, this is known as sensitive dependence to initial conditions. A more feasible alternative is to begin with an incomplete articulation of a context and allow the user to interactively develop and refine it. Although most computer interfaces for information visualization tools are predominantly verbal, a predominantly visual interface can have significant advantages. Such an interface allows users to avoid the usual translations between visual and verbal modes and it removes users' need for a specialized visualization vocabulary. A visual interface can also shift the focus of the visualization process from the data towards the user These ideas are discussed in the context of a prototype tool, the design of which is illustrated with an example, and the evaluation of which has provided many positive results.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131006779","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":"Fillets: cues for connections in Focus+Context views of graph-like diagrams","authors":"Tuomas J. Lukka, J. Kujala, Marketta Niemelä","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028829","url":null,"abstract":"We apply fillets - smoothing of sharp angles at the joints - between the connections and nodes of graph-like diagrams. In situations where the graph layout is constrained, e.g. Focus+Context views or views where the coordinates of the nodes are informative, fillets can clarify the relationships considerably without altering the layout. A visual search experiment supports our hypothesis that with fillets it is considerably easier to perceive node-connection structures. We discuss algorithms with different tradeoffs for flexibility and performance for rendering these connections in a single pass using OpenGL.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114511139","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":"Visualisation of perturbed vowel phonation using dynamic fundamental harmonic normalisation","authors":"K. Manickam, C. Moore","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028833","url":null,"abstract":"In larynx cancer patients the monitoring of vocal fold behaviour can be achieved using glottal waveforms for vowels captured as trans-larynx impedance time series via an electro-laryngograph. The impedance signals are sustained for up to 4 seconds, digitised at 20 kHz, and divided into 1000 point frames. An estimate of the instantaneous power spectral density PSD is computed from of each frame. However, detailed spectral differences between normal and aberrant vowel phonation are obscured by dynamic variations in fundamental frequency f/sub 0/. To separate fundamental and harmonic behaviour, f/sub 0/ is extracted from a frame and used to normalise spectral powers and to transform the entire frequency range into floating point multiples of the fundamental frequency. FHN dynamic PSD can then be presented as shaded surfaces to the clinician for evaluation. Examples are given for normal volunteers and a patient assessed by speech and language therapists pre-treatment, then at 6 and 12 months post treatment.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116893344","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":"Financial Reminiscences: an example of art based on information visualization in finance","authors":"Yasuhiko Saito","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028864","url":null,"abstract":"Useful techniques for information visualization allow engineers or analysts to produce works of art. A work entitled \"Financial Reminiscences\" is an example of such works. This work has been produced using a visualization technique for financial analysis. This technique is not only a tool for generating images. It is closely related to the information visualized in the work. Thus, the audience needs to understand the visualization technique and then to analyze the information.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129431199","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":"Combining visualisation and choice experiments in built environment research","authors":"A. Davies, R. Laing, Stephen Scott","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028870","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports results from a project that combined the visualisation of streetscapes with environmental economics. The particular economic methodology employed was choice experimentation, which has previously tended to use text to convey scenarios between which respondents make choices. The research investigated how the visual impact Of streetscapes could be incorporated in choice experiments through the use of 3D computer generated visualisations. Data was gathered initially through an Internet based survey, and replicated later using a high specification stand-alone machine. This paper identifies strengths and weaknesses in the approach, and reports results pertaining to effectiveness and practicality of the methodology. Using visualisation offers many potential benefits to the field of choice experimentation, and application within the built environment merits further development.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128644574","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":"Spring embedder preprocessing for WWW visualization","authors":"P. Mutton, P. Rodgers","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028861","url":null,"abstract":"We present a preprocessor for the spring embedder graph drawing method and show its use in speeding up the automatic layout of three-dimensional visualizations of WWW sites. Spring embedding is a widely used method for visualizing the connections in WWW maps, as it can typically produce a reasonable layout for most general graphs. However, the technique does not scale well and to improve the performance when dealing with large graphs various optimisations have been developed. Our preprocessor is a new optimization method that attempts to obtain a reasonably good initial drawing to be then used by the spring embedder. This initial drawing has edge lengths that are approximately equal along with a minimum node separation. This produces a layout that is closer to the final drawing than a random scattering of nodes and so allows fewer invocations of the spring embedder to produce an equally stable drawing.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127253165","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":"Compact hierarchical image descriptors","authors":"E. Izquierdo","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028840","url":null,"abstract":"An efficient approach for image annotation and retrieval is presented. The main objective is to overcome the speed limitations of existing video indexing and retrieval systems. A family of successively simplified image descriptors is defined using colour histograms. The colour distribution is quantised according to a scale-parameter obtained by convolving the distribution function with Gaussians of increasing size. The generated family of histograms is then used to define descriptors at various levels of detail. Using this hierarchical descriptor structure large sets of non-similar images are discriminated at very low computational cost using low detailed descriptions. The search is then refined progressively until only a few very similar objects or images are found and ranked using higher levels of detail. To compare image descriptors the earth mover's distance is used. Experiments have been conducted to assess the performance of the proposed technique.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122320857","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":"Visualizing user's personality and information in 3D environments, a step beyond avatars","authors":"A. D. Abreu, Martin Kurze","doi":"10.1109/IV.2002.1028792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028792","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present an innovative approach to visualize people's personal information. The approach is based on the assumption that a personal environment, furnished by an interested and engaged person, expresses more about himself than a simple text or even an image or fixed animation. We consider this personalized living environment as innovative form of a Resume, created with the intention of giving a possible employer a good impression about both: hard facts and soft skills of the applicant. We describe a client-server-based system, which allows professionals to create their own personalized 3D Homepage as their Resume.","PeriodicalId":308951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121398956","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}