{"title":"InfoShape: high-level views of multidimensional information","authors":"Jie Hao, Kang Zhang","doi":"10.1145/2016656.2016668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2016656.2016668","url":null,"abstract":"Multidimensional visualization, which creates visual presentations for datasets of multiple variables, helps users to gain an insight of represented information from different perspectives. This paper presents a multidimensional information visualization technique called InfoShape that represents multidimensional information as a 3D sphere whose appearance denotes how much the provided information satisfies a pre-defined set of criteria. By comparing spheres representing different multiple information sets, overall content similarities and differences can be quickly captured at a glance by viewers. The InfoShape concept has been evaluated with a case analysis and an empirical study.","PeriodicalId":360638,"journal":{"name":"International Symposiu on Visual Information Communication and Interaction","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127828017","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 graph-based fuzzy linguistic metadata schema for describing spatial relationships","authors":"Y. Su, M. Dunham","doi":"10.1145/2016656.2016670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2016656.2016670","url":null,"abstract":"The spatial relationship description among objects is highly desirable for many research areas such as artificial intelligence and image analysis. In this paper we present a novel fuzzy logic method to automatically generate the description of spatial relationships among objects. A new graph-based fuzzy linguistic metadata schema named Snowflake is proposed to describe the topology and metric relationships for a set of objects. Like an artist painting a picture, Snowflake selects one reference object to present the spatial relationships of all the other objects with respect to this reference object. This paper introduces the operations and isomorphism of Snowflake. The paper also demonstrates that Snowflake preserves the rotation invariance and the scale invariance of spatial relationships. Experiments show that Snowflake is an efficient and effective spatial modeling method.","PeriodicalId":360638,"journal":{"name":"International Symposiu on Visual Information Communication and Interaction","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121577385","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}
Zhirong Zeng, Kun Wang, Dongxing Teng, Hongan Wang, G. Dai
{"title":"A hyperbolic tree based interface for exploring massive files","authors":"Zhirong Zeng, Kun Wang, Dongxing Teng, Hongan Wang, G. Dai","doi":"10.1145/2016656.2016660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2016656.2016660","url":null,"abstract":"Along with the rapid development of information technology, individual users of computers are faced with many problems in dealing with massive files, such as enormous amount, serious redundancy and complex version evolution relation. These lead that the file system becomes more and more rough-and-tumble, to a certain extent putting users to trouble in daily work. This paper systematically analyzed the problems in file system management, put forward user cognitive model when faced with massive files, and then introduced the FDTVAS system which is a visual interface based on hyperbolic tree view for exploring the massive files. This system used specific algorithm to do the intelligent analysis of file relationship, took hyperbolic tree as the main visual form, and provided a series of interaction tasks according with users' cognitive model. The built system can help users get a clear insight of the file system and do the analysis and management efficiently.","PeriodicalId":360638,"journal":{"name":"International Symposiu on Visual Information Communication and Interaction","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123199750","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":"MusiCube: a visual music recommendation system featuring interactive evolutionary computing","authors":"Yuri Saito, T. Itoh","doi":"10.1145/2016656.2016661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2016656.2016661","url":null,"abstract":"We often want to select tunes based on our purposes or situations. For example, we may want background music for particular spaces. We think interactive evolutionary computing is a good solution to adequately recommend tunes based on users' preferences. This paper presents MusiCube, a visual interface for music selection. It applies interactive genetic algorithm in a multidimensional musical feature space. MusiCube displays a set of tunes as colored icons in a 2D cubic space, and provides a user interface to intuitively select suggested tunes. This paper presents a user experience that MusiCube adequately represented clouds of icons corresponding to sets of users' preferable tunes in the 2D cubic space.","PeriodicalId":360638,"journal":{"name":"International Symposiu on Visual Information Communication and Interaction","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128962910","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}
Yasuhiro Sota, Keisuke Yamamoto, M. Hirakawa, S. Doi, Y. Yamamoto
{"title":"Support of self-management for chronic kidney failure patients","authors":"Yasuhiro Sota, Keisuke Yamamoto, M. Hirakawa, S. Doi, Y. Yamamoto","doi":"10.1145/2016656.2016662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2016656.2016662","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, many people are suffering from the disease that their kidneys no longer function adequately. Knowing their own physical conditions accurately and then recognizing the necessity of self-management are the key to the exploration of a better quality of life (QOL) for such patients.\u0000 In this paper, we present a trial of developing a visual interface system for dialysis patients with the aid of information and communication technologies. A patient can access his/her own record of blood test results through a mobile phone, where its visualization is designed and simplified especially for use by kidney patients. However, not all patients take positive actions toward the management of their own health condition. One of the reasons why this is so would be that the relationship between cause and effect in one's life habits is not visible. The system also provides a facility for promoting self-management by the patients. The results of a preliminary experiment carried out in a hospital are discussed.","PeriodicalId":360638,"journal":{"name":"International Symposiu on Visual Information Communication and Interaction","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132490802","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":"Visualization of large category hierarchies","authors":"R. Biuk-Aghai, P. Pang, Felix Hon Hou Cheang","doi":"10.1145/2016656.2016658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2016656.2016658","url":null,"abstract":"Large data repositories such as electronic journal databases, document corpora and wikis often organise their content into categories. Librarians, researchers, and interested users who wish to know the content distribution among different categories face the challenge of analysing large amounts of data. Information visualization can assist the user by shifting the analysis task to the human visual sub-system. In this paper we describe three visualization methods we have implemented, which help users understand category hierarchies and content distribution within large document repositories, and present an evaluation of these visualizations, pointing out each of their relative strengths for communicating information about the underlying category structure.","PeriodicalId":360638,"journal":{"name":"International Symposiu on Visual Information Communication and Interaction","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127247359","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}
Jiawan Zhang, Yi Zhang, Lei Fu, Qinghui Guo, M. Huang
{"title":"Coaxial interactive viewer: a multi-dimensional data visualization with spatial distortional views","authors":"Jiawan Zhang, Yi Zhang, Lei Fu, Qinghui Guo, M. Huang","doi":"10.1145/2016656.2016667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2016656.2016667","url":null,"abstract":"We present a navigatable multi-dimensional visualization of data named coaxial interactive visualization which is based on the coaxial axes. In this visualization, the dimensions of data in n-dimensional space are mapped to n concentric circular axes drawn in a planar space with polar coordinates. A data item in n-dimensional space is represented as a poly-curve with n vertices across all circular axes. Via the spatial distortion in polar system, the view of multi-dimensional data is interactively adjusted to satisfy viewer's interest. The viewer, thus, can effectively navigate the underlying visual pattern to reach the great detail for uncovering trends and patterns in the visualization. One novelties of this work is performing focus+context viewing in polar coordinate system.","PeriodicalId":360638,"journal":{"name":"International Symposiu on Visual Information Communication and Interaction","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123716523","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 analysis tool that smoothly switches between tabular forms and parallel coordinates","authors":"Kazuo Misue, Takashi Yuki","doi":"10.1145/2016656.2016659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2016656.2016659","url":null,"abstract":"An intermediate representation between tabular forms and parallel coordinates is proposed. The new representation makes it possible to switch back and forth between tables and parallel coordinates in smooth transformations. The authors have developed a tool that can manipulate these representations for the analysis of multidimensional data. Through experimental evaluation, the advantages of this tool are illustrated. It is expected that both the representation and the tool offer a significant improvement to the early stage of data analysis.","PeriodicalId":360638,"journal":{"name":"International Symposiu on Visual Information Communication and Interaction","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124386202","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}
Feng Tian, Xiang Cao, Fei Lv, G. Dai, X. Zhang, Hongan Wang
{"title":"Empirical studies of pen tilting performance in pen-based user interfaces","authors":"Feng Tian, Xiang Cao, Fei Lv, G. Dai, X. Zhang, Hongan Wang","doi":"10.1145/2016656.2016664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2016656.2016664","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, pen tilting has been explored in pen-based user interfaces and has shown potential to improve user interaction in various tasks (e.g., menu selection, modeless object manipulation). However, some basic questions concerning pen tilting behaviors, such as the ideal range, azimuth size, and direction of pen tilting, have not been thoroughly investigated. In this paper, we report our empirical studies on user performances in basic pen tilting tasks. First, we conducted a baseline study, which helps us to determine tilting directions, tilting ranges, and the thresholds that separate incidental pen tilting actions from intentional actions used for interaction. Based on the results from the baseline study, we designed an experiment to investigate user performances in goal tilting in different tilting ranges, azimuth sizes, and directions. Drawing on the results of our data analyses on task completion time, error rate, and pen tip movements, we discussed values of tilting parameters like titling range, minimal azimuth size, and tilting direction.","PeriodicalId":360638,"journal":{"name":"International Symposiu on Visual Information Communication and Interaction","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114793080","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}
Xiaoyu Wang, E. Bier, T. Butkiewicz, W. Ribarsky, Wenwen Dou
{"title":"Designing visual analytics systems for organizational environments","authors":"Xiaoyu Wang, E. Bier, T. Butkiewicz, W. Ribarsky, Wenwen Dou","doi":"10.1145/2016656.2016657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2016656.2016657","url":null,"abstract":"We present research focused on designing visual analytics (VA) systems for workers in organizational environments. We focus on business analysts and asset managers, who work collaboratively to analyze information and make decisions. Through extensive investigations in two organizational environments, we found that these users struggle with managing and analyzing information from multiple perspectives. Their current tools lack support for aggregating, organizing, and sharing such information. To address their needs, we characterized their analytic workflows, extracted specific key knowledge actions for each task commonly found in these workflows, and designed and evaluated two visual analytics systems that support and encapsulate these knowledge actions. We provide design guidelines that should be used when designing visual analytics systems, and illustrate their effectiveness with two systems built by following them.","PeriodicalId":360638,"journal":{"name":"International Symposiu on Visual Information Communication and Interaction","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130043046","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}