Xingyao Yu, David Rosin, Johannes Kassinger, Benjamin Lee, Frank Durr, Christian Becker, Oliver Rohrle, Michael Sedlmair
{"title":"PerSiVal: On-Body AR Visualization of Biomechanical Arm Simulations.","authors":"Xingyao Yu, David Rosin, Johannes Kassinger, Benjamin Lee, Frank Durr, Christian Becker, Oliver Rohrle, Michael Sedlmair","doi":"10.1109/MCG.2024.3494598","DOIUrl":"10.1109/MCG.2024.3494598","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this work, we explore different combinations of techniques for an interactive, on-body visualization in augmented reality (AR) of an upper arm muscle simulation model. In terms of data, we focus on a continuum-mechanical simulation model involving five different muscles of the human upper arm, with physiologically realistic geometry. In terms of use cases, we focus on the immersive illustration, education, and dissemination of such simulation models. We describe the process of developing six on-body visualization prototypes over a period of five years. For each prototype, we employed different types of motion capture, AR display technologies, and visual encoding approaches, and gathered feedback throughout outreach activities. We reflect on the development of the individual prototypes and summarize lessons learned of our exploration process into the design space of situated on-body visualization.</p>","PeriodicalId":55026,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications","volume":"PP ","pages":"24-38"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142607209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Silvia Miksch, Claudio Di Ciccio, Pnina Soffer, Barbara Weber, Theresa-Marie Rhyne
{"title":"Visual Analytics Meets Process Mining: Challenges and Opportunities.","authors":"Silvia Miksch, Claudio Di Ciccio, Pnina Soffer, Barbara Weber, Theresa-Marie Rhyne","doi":"10.1109/MCG.2024.3456916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2024.3456916","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Visual analytics (VA) integrates the outstanding capabilities of humans in terms of visual information exploration with the enormous processing power of computers to form a powerful knowledge discovery environment. In other words, VA is the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive interfaces, capturing the information discovery process while keeping humans in the loop. Process mining (PM) is a data-driven and process centric approach that aims to extract information and knowledge from event logs to discover, monitor, and improve processes in various application domains. The combination of interactive visual data analysis and exploration with PM algorithms can make complex information structures more comprehensible and facilitate new insights. Yet, this combination remains largely unexplored. In this article, we illustrate the concepts of VA and PM, how their combination can support the extraction of more insights from complex event data, and elaborate on the challenges and opportunities for analyzing process data with VA methods and enhancing VA methods using PM techniques.</p>","PeriodicalId":55026,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications","volume":"44 6","pages":"132-141"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143544546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BRPVis: Visual Analytics for Bus Route Planning Based on Perception of Passenger Travel Demand.","authors":"Qiushi Xia, Huijie Zhang, Dezhan Qu, Jinghan Bai, Cheng Lv","doi":"10.1109/MCG.2024.3454645","DOIUrl":"10.1109/MCG.2024.3454645","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Bus route planning is a complex application problem within the transportation domain, aiming to identify the best route among numerous candidate solutions. Despite existing research significantly reducing the exploration space of solutions, planners still face challenges in further exploring optimal route planning solutions. Specifically, the diversity of route attributes increases the complexity of determining their impact, such as the variety and quantity of reachable points of interest. Therefore, we present BRPVis, an interactive visual analytics system designed to assist bus route planners in exploring optimal solutions through multilevel visualization and rich interaction design. Furthermore, we propose a human-machine collaborative multicriteria decision-making method, which quantitatively analyzes the weights of route attributes while incorporating interactive feedback mechanisms to support personalized route exploration. Based on exploration using real-world traffic datasets, three case studies conducted with domain experts demonstrate that BRPVis effectively provides decision support for bus route planning tasks.</p>","PeriodicalId":55026,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications","volume":"PP ","pages":"118-131"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142134539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Automatic and User-Assisted Sphere-Mesh Construction.","authors":"Davide Paolillo, Marco Tarini","doi":"10.1109/MCG.2024.3426656","DOIUrl":"10.1109/MCG.2024.3426656","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A sphere-mesh is a class of geometric proxies defined as the volume swept by spheres with linearly interpolated centers and radii, potentially striking a good balance between conciseness of representation, simplicity of spatial queries, and expressive power. We investigate the semiautomatic generation of sphere-meshes from standard triangular meshes. We improve one known automatic construction algorithm, based on iterative local coarsening operation, by introducing a mechanism to prevent operations that would result in spheres exceeding the target shape; then, we propose a 3-D interface designed to permit users to easily and intuitively modify the automatically generated sphere-meshes. The two phases, an improved automatic algorithm and a novel interactive tool, used in cascade, constitute a viable semiautomatic way to produce high-quality sphere-meshes. We test our method on several inputs tri-meshes, assess their quality, and finally exemplify the usability of our results by testing them in a few downstream applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":55026,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications","volume":"PP ","pages":"105-117"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141728359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sean J Dorr, James W Rock, Vicente M Diaz, Daniel F Keefe, Melanie Tory
{"title":"Toward Indigenous Presence: A Radical Relationality Approach for Designing Mixed-Reality Indigenous Data Experiences.","authors":"Sean J Dorr, James W Rock, Vicente M Diaz, Daniel F Keefe, Melanie Tory","doi":"10.1109/MCG.2024.3456868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2024.3456868","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We present Indigenous Presence, a design principle for partnering with Indigenous communities to make computing tools responsive to Indigenous priorities. Indigenous Presence blends participatory design methodologies with radical relationality, a concept from Critical Indigenous Theory, and theories of presence from virtual and mixed-reality (MR) research. Examples come from a six-year partnership with local Micronesian and Dakota communities that aims, in part, to use MR to revitalize and exchange cultural knowledges of canoes, waters, lands, and skies. Five factors for activating Indigenous Presence are identifed: 1) having a community-relevant topic, 2) including Indigenous makers, 3) creating culturally identifiable experiences, 4) centering radical relationality in design, and 5) respecting Indigenous protocols. Potential benefits include higher ethical standards for computing research along with increased trustworthiness and participation in computing.</p>","PeriodicalId":55026,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications","volume":"44 6","pages":"61-69"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143544544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chia-Hsing Chiu, Yu-Chi Lai, Shang-Yen Swen, Zhong-Qi Cai, Wen-Kai Tai
{"title":"Procedural Fish Modeling.","authors":"Chia-Hsing Chiu, Yu-Chi Lai, Shang-Yen Swen, Zhong-Qi Cai, Wen-Kai Tai","doi":"10.1109/MCG.2024.3439736","DOIUrl":"10.1109/MCG.2024.3439736","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is time- and man-power intensive to craft various fish species for underwater animations and games. Even professionals spend hours to days for one. Therefore, we propose procedural fish generation, which presents an innovative and automatic approach to generate 3-D fish models with one lateral image. The core lies in parameterizing the ray-finned fish with curves and optimizing them with textures to fit the input using differentiable rendering, greatly reducing the manual modeling work. It presents advantages over multi-image reconstruction in requiring a single image, while state-of-the-art methods suffer from such a scenario to achieve informative reconstruction. Also, our method outputs a polygon mesh, widely compatible with modern graphics hardware and software, thus facilitating further editing. Furthermore, we fine tune the prompts for Stable Diffusion while users can type a name to find high-quality lateral images. Extensive ablation studies and comparisons have proved its effectiveness and efficiency for experts and nonexperts.</p>","PeriodicalId":55026,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications","volume":"PP ","pages":"89-104"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141903644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Faizan Siddiqui, H Bart Brouwers, Geert-Jan Rutten, Thomas Hollt, Anna Vilanova
{"title":"Effect of white matter uncertainty visualization in neurosurgical decision making.","authors":"Faizan Siddiqui, H Bart Brouwers, Geert-Jan Rutten, Thomas Hollt, Anna Vilanova","doi":"10.1109/MCG.2024.3462926","DOIUrl":"10.1109/MCG.2024.3462926","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fiber tracking is a powerful technique that provides insight into the brain's white matter structure. Despite its potential, the inherent uncertainties limit its widespread clinical use. These uncertainties potentially hamper the clinical decisions neurosurgeons have to make before, during, and after the surgery. Many techniques have been developed to visualize uncertainties, however, there is limited evidence to suggest whether these uncertainty visualization influences neurosurgical decision-making. In this paper, we evaluate the hypothesis that uncertainty visualization in fiber tracking influences neurosurgeon's decisions and the confidence in their decisions. For this purpose, we designed a user study through an online interactive questionnaire and evaluate the influence of uncertainty visualization in neurosurgical decision-making. The results of this study emphasize the importance of uncertainty visualization in clinical decision making by highlighting the influence of different interval of uncertainty visualization in critical clinical decisions.</p>","PeriodicalId":55026,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications","volume":"PP ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142332712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PhDs-Portugal has Doctors: A Visualization of Academia Achievements in Portugal From 1970 to 2022.","authors":"Pedro Silva, Pedro Martins, Penousal Machado","doi":"10.1109/MCG.2024.3405656","DOIUrl":"10.1109/MCG.2024.3405656","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>PhDs-Portugal has Doctors is an interactive installation presenting Portuguese doctoral theses from 1970 to 2022, tracking their historical evolution and distribution across universities and research sectors. This work resulted in an installation that served a dual purpose: to raise awareness and value the work of national doctorates and to reduce the communication gap on this topic, encouraging a public engagement with the subject, fostering discussions beyond the data, and prompting reflection on how this lesser-known reality has impacted Portugal with its significantly growing presence. Drawing from recent research on aesthetics and its impact on data perception, we integrated these insights to make the visualization approach accessible to the general public, emphasizing a visually minimalist narrative. The story initially prompts viewers to reflect on the temporal evolution of the academic landscape over the last decades. The visualization then encourages viewers to actively engage with the data, facilitating a more in-depth exploration. The installation garnered positive feedback, provoking amazement and surprise, and revealed an unknown reality, even within the scientific community, further justifying the need for this type of dissemination works.</p>","PeriodicalId":55026,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications","volume":"PP ","pages":"114-126"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141157676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}