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Key-isovalue selection and hierarchical exploration visualization of weather forecast ensembles

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Visual Informatics Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.visinf.2025.02.001

Feng Zhou, Hao Hu, Fengjie Wang, Jiamin Zhu, Wenwen Gao, Min Zhu

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A human-centric perspective on interpretability in large language models

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Visual Informatics Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.visinf.2025.03.001

Zihan Zhou, Minfeng Zhu, Wei Chen

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What about thematic information? An analysis of the multidimensional visualization of individual mobility

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Visual Informatics Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.visinf.2025.02.002

Aline Menin , Clément Quere , Jorge Wagner , Sonia Chardonnel , Paule-Annick Davoine , Wolfgang Stuerzlinger , Carla Maria Dal Sasso Freitas , Luciana Nedel , Marco Winckler

{"title":"What about thematic information? An analysis of the multidimensional visualization of individual mobility","authors":"Aline Menin , Clément Quere , Jorge Wagner , Sonia Chardonnel , Paule-Annick Davoine , Wolfgang Stuerzlinger , Carla Maria Dal Sasso Freitas , Luciana Nedel , Marco Winckler","doi":"10.1016/j.visinf.2025.02.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.visinf.2025.02.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper reviews the literature on the visualization of individual mobility data, with a focus on thematic integration. It emphasizes the importance of visualization in understanding mobility patterns within a population and how it helps mobility experts address domain-specific questions. We analyze 38 papers published between 2010 and 2024 in GIS and VIS venues that describe visualizations of multidimensional data related to individual movements in urban environments, concentrating on individual mobility rather than traffic data. Our primary aim is to report advances in interactive visualization for individual mobility analysis, particularly regarding the representation of thematic information about people’s motivations for mobility. Our findings indicate that the thematic dimension is only partially represented in the literature, despite its critical significance in transportation. This gap often stems from the challenge of identifying data sources that inherently provide this information, necessitating visualization designers and developers to navigate multiple, heterogeneous data sources. We identify the strengths and limitations of existing visualizations and suggest potential research directions for the field.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":36903,"journal":{"name":"Visual Informatics","volume":"9 1","pages":"Pages 99-115"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143644925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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ClayVolume: A progressive refinement interaction system for immersive visualization

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Visual Informatics Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.visinf.2025.01.003

Zhenyuan Wang , Qing Zhao , Yue Zhang , Jinhui Zhang , Guihua Shan , Xiao Zhou , Dong Tian

{"title":"ClayVolume: A progressive refinement interaction system for immersive visualization","authors":"Zhenyuan Wang , Qing Zhao , Yue Zhang , Jinhui Zhang , Guihua Shan , Xiao Zhou , Dong Tian","doi":"10.1016/j.visinf.2025.01.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.visinf.2025.01.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Immersive visualization has become an important tool for discovering hidden patterns and obtaining insights from data. Target acquisition in immersive visualization is a fundamental step in visual analysis. However, limited visual encoding attributes and the presence of stacking and occlusion in immersive environments pose challenges in discovering valuable targets and making unambiguous selections. In this paper, we present ClayVolume, an interactive system designed for immersive visualization. It comprises metaphorical tools for customizing regions of interest (ROIs) and multiple views that serve as interactive and analytical mediums. ClayVolume empowers analysts to efficiently acquire valuable targets through a progressive refinement of interactive methods, enabling further extraction of insights. We evaluate ClayVolume in the scenario of immersive visualization of network data and perform a comparative analysis of its performance against other techniques in target selection tasks. The results indicate that ClayVolume enables flexible target selection in immersive visualization and provides fast target discovery and localization capabilities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":36903,"journal":{"name":"Visual Informatics","volume":"9 1","pages":"Pages 71-83"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143644923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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EmotionLens: Interactive visual exploration of the circumplex emotion space in literary works via affective word clouds

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Visual Informatics Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.visinf.2025.02.003

Bingyuan Wang , Qing Shi , Xiaohan Wang , You Zhou , Wei Zeng , Zeyu Wang

{"title":"EmotionLens: Interactive visual exploration of the circumplex emotion space in literary works via affective word clouds","authors":"Bingyuan Wang , Qing Shi , Xiaohan Wang , You Zhou , Wei Zeng , Zeyu Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.visinf.2025.02.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.visinf.2025.02.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Emotion (e.g., valence and arousal) is an important factor in literature (e.g., poetry and prose), and has rich values for plotting the life and knowledge of historical figures and appreciating the aesthetics of literary works. Currently, digital humanities and computational literature apply data statistics extensively in emotion analysis but lack visual analytics for efficient exploration. To fill the gap, we propose a user-centric approach that integrates advanced machine learning models and intuitive visualization for emotion analysis in literature. We make three main contributions. First, we consolidate a new emotion dataset of literary works in different periods, literary genres, and language contexts, augmented with fine-grained valence and arousal labels. Next, we design an interactive visual analytic system named <em>EmotionLens</em>, which allows users to perform multi-granularity (e.g., individual, group, society) and multi-faceted (e.g., distribution, chronology, correlation) analyses of literary emotions, supporting both exploratory and confirmatory approaches in digital humanities. Specifically, we introduce a novel affective word cloud with augmented word weight, position, and color, to facilitate literary text analysis from an emotional perspective. To validate the usability and effectiveness of <em>EmotionLens</em>, we provide two consecutive case studies, two user studies, and interviews with experts from different domains. Our results show that <em>EmotionLens</em> bridges literary text, emotion, and various other attributes, enables efficient knowledge discovery in massive data, and facilitates raising and validating domain-specific hypotheses in literature.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":36903,"journal":{"name":"Visual Informatics","volume":"9 1","pages":"Pages 84-98"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143644924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Leveraging personality as a proxy of perceived transparency in hierarchical visualizations

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Visual Informatics Pub Date : 2025-02-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.visinf.2025.01.002

Tomás Alves , Carlota Dias , Daniel Gonçalves , Sandra Gama

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Visual comparative analytics of multimodal transportation

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Visual Informatics Pub Date : 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.visinf.2025.01.001

Zikun Deng , Haoming Chen , Qing-Long Lu , Zicheng Su , Tobias Schreck , Jie Bao , Yi Cai

{"title":"Visual comparative analytics of multimodal transportation","authors":"Zikun Deng , Haoming Chen , Qing-Long Lu , Zicheng Su , Tobias Schreck , Jie Bao , Yi Cai","doi":"10.1016/j.visinf.2025.01.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.visinf.2025.01.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Contemporary urban transportation systems frequently depend on a variety of modes to provide residents with travel services. Understanding a multimodal transportation system is pivotal for devising well-informed planning; however, it is also inherently challenging for traffic analysts and planners. This challenge stems from the necessity of evaluating and contrasting the quality of transportation services across multiple modes. Existing methods are constrained in offering comprehensive insights into the system, primarily due to the inadequacy of multimodal traffic data necessary for fair comparisons and their inability to equip analysts and planners with the means for exploration and reasoned analysis within the urban spatial context. To this end, we first acquire sufficient multimodal trips leveraging well-established navigation platforms that can estimate the routes with the least travel time given an origin and a destination (an OD pair). We also propose TraDyssey, a visual analytics system that enables analysts and planners to evaluate and compare multiple modes by exploring acquired massive multimodal trips. TraDyssey follows a streamlined query-and-explore workflow supported by user-friendly and effective interactive visualizations. Specifically, a revisited difference-aware parallel coordinate plot (PCP) is designed for overall mode comparisons based on multimodal trips. Trip groups can be flexibly queried on the PCP based on differential features across modes. The queried trips are then organized and presented on a geographic map by OD pairs, forming a group-OD-trip hierarchy of visual exploration. Domain experts gained valuable insights into transportation planning through real-world case studies using TraDyssey.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":36903,"journal":{"name":"Visual Informatics","volume":"9 1","pages":"Pages 18-30"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143445454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Out-of-focus artifacts mitigation and autofocus methods for 3D displays

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Visual Informatics Pub Date : 2024-12-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.visinf.2024.12.001

T. Chlubna , T. Milet , P. Zemčík

{"title":"Out-of-focus artifacts mitigation and autofocus methods for 3D displays","authors":"T. Chlubna , T. Milet , P. Zemčík","doi":"10.1016/j.visinf.2024.12.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.visinf.2024.12.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper proposes a novel content-aware method for automatic focusing of the scene on a 3D display. The method addresses a common problem that visualized content is often out of focus, which adversely affects perceived 3D content. The method outperforms existing focusing method, having the error lower by almost 30%. The existing and novel focusing is extended with depth-of-field enhancement of the scene to mitigate out-of-focus artifacts. The relation between the total depth range of the scene and the visual quality of the result is discussed and evaluated according to human perception experiments. A space-warping method for synthetic scenes is proposed to reduce out-of-focus artifacts while maintaining the scene appearance. A user study was conducted to evaluate the proposed methods and identify the crucial parameters in the scene-focusing process on the 3D stereoscopic display by Looking Glass Factory. The study confirmed the efficiency of the proposals and discovered that the depth-of-field artifact mitigation might not be suitable for all scenes despite theoretical hypotheses. The overall proposal of this paper is a set of methods that can be used to produce the best user experience with an arbitrary scene displayed on a 3D display.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":36903,"journal":{"name":"Visual Informatics","volume":"9 1","pages":"Pages 31-42"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143445455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Transforming cinematography lighting education in the metaverse

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Visual Informatics Pub Date : 2024-12-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.visinf.2024.11.003

Xian Xu , Wai Tong , Zheng Wei , Meng Xia , Lik-Hang Lee , Huamin Qu

{"title":"Transforming cinematography lighting education in the metaverse","authors":"Xian Xu , Wai Tong , Zheng Wei , Meng Xia , Lik-Hang Lee , Huamin Qu","doi":"10.1016/j.visinf.2024.11.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.visinf.2024.11.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Lighting education is a foundational component of cinematography education. However, many art schools do not have expensive soundstages for traditional cinematography lessons. Migrating physical setups to virtual experiences is a potential solution driven by metaverse initiatives. Yet there is still a lack of knowledge on the design of a VR system for teaching cinematography. We first analyzed the educational needs for cinematography lighting education by conducting interviews with six cinematography professionals from academia and industry. Accordingly, we presented <em>Art Mirror</em>, a VR soundstage for teachers and students to emulate cinematography lighting in virtual scenarios. We evaluated <em>Art Mirror</em> from the aspects of usability, realism, presence, sense of agency, and collaboration. Sixteen participants were invited to take a cinematography lighting course and assess the design elements of <em>Art Mirror</em>. Our results demonstrate that <em>Art Mirror</em> is usable and useful for cinematography lighting education, which sheds light on the design of VR cinematography education.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":36903,"journal":{"name":"Visual Informatics","volume":"9 1","pages":"Pages 1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143437611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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ArtEyer: Enriching GPT-based agents with contextual data visualizations for fine art authentication

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Visual Informatics Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.visinf.2024.11.001

Tan Tang , Yanhong Wu , Junming Gao , Kejia Ruan , Yanjie Zhang , Shuainan Ye , Yingcai Wu , Xiaojiao Chen

{"title":"ArtEyer: Enriching GPT-based agents with contextual data visualizations for fine art authentication","authors":"Tan Tang , Yanhong Wu , Junming Gao , Kejia Ruan , Yanjie Zhang , Shuainan Ye , Yingcai Wu , Xiaojiao Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.visinf.2024.11.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.visinf.2024.11.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Fine art authentication plays a significant role in protecting cultural heritage and ensuring the integrity of artworks. Traditional authentication methods require professionals to collect many reference materials and conduct detailed analyses. To ease the difficulty, we collaborate with domain experts to develop a GPT-based agent, namely ArtEyer, that offers accurate attributions, determines the origin and authorship, and executes visual analytics. Despite the convenience of the conversational user interface, novice users may still face challenges due to the hallucination issue and the steep learning curve associated with prompting. To face these obstacles, we propose a novel solution that places interactive data visualizations into the conversations. We create contextual visualizations from an external domain-dependent database to ensure data trustworthiness and allow users to provide precise instructions to the agent by interacting directly with these visualizations, thus overcoming the vagueness inherent in natural language-based prompting. We evaluate ArtEyer through an in-lab user study and demonstrate its usage with a real-world case.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":36903,"journal":{"name":"Visual Informatics","volume":"8 4","pages":"Pages 48-59"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143098848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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