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Visual Analytics Reading Group

We are an informal reading group that meets once a week to discuss papers related to Visual Anaytics, Information Visualization, and HCI in general.

Time: Tuesday 2pm-3pm

Location: SURR 14-400

Next Paper

• May 30th: Kandel, S., Andreas, P., Hellerstein, J., and Heer, J. (2011) Wrangler: Interactive Visual Specification of Data Transformation Scripts. Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011). pp. 3363–3372.

Discussed Papers

Summer 2011

• May 25th: Kang, Y. and Stasko, J. Characterizing the Intelligence Analysis Process: Informing Visual Analytics Design through a Longitudinal Field Study. Submitted to VAST 2011.

Spring 2011

• April 19th: Derthick, M. and Roth, S.F. (2001) Enhancing data exploration with a branching history of user operations. Knowledge-Based Systems, 14(1-2). pp. 65-74.
• April 5th: Baudisch, P., Good, N., Bellotti, V., and Schraedley, P. (2002) Keeping things in context: a comparative evaluation of focus plus context screens, overviews, and zooming. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI).
• March 29th: Gotz, D., Zhou, M.X., and Aggarwal, V. (2006) Interactive Visual Synthesis of Analytic Knowledge. IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology.
• March 8th: Suchow, J.W. & Alvarez, G. (2011). Motion silences awareness of visual change. Current Biology, 21, 140-143.
• March 1st: Shrinivasan, Yedendra B. & van Wijk, Jarke J. Supporting Exploration Awareness in Information Visualization. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications Vol.29 No.5 (2009), pp. 34-43.
• Feb. 8th: Lee, B., Parr, C.S., Plaisant, C., Bederson, B.B., Veksler, V.D., Gray, W.D. & Kotfila, C. (2006) TreePlus: Interactive Exploration of Networks with Enhanced Tree Layouts. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, pp. 1414-1426.
• Feb. 1st: Robinson, A.C. (2008). Collaborative Synthesis of Visual Analytic Results. IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, pp. 67–74. IEEE. Retrieved February 1, 2011, from http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4677358.
• Jan. 25th: Cui, W., Wu, Y., Liu, S., Wei, F., & Zhou, M.X. (2010). Context Preserving Dynamic Word Cloud Visualization. IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, pp. 121-128.
• Jan. 18th: Lipford, H.R., Stukes, F., Duo, W. Hawkins, M.E., & Chang R. (2010) Helping Users Recall Their Reasoning Process. IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, pp. 187-194.
• Jan. 11th: Freire, M., Plaisant, C., Shneiderman, B., and Golbeck J. (2010) ManyNets: An Interface for Multiple Network Analysis and Visualization. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

Fall 2010

• November 30: Elmqvist, N. and Fekete, J-D. (2010) Hierarchical Aggregation for Information Visualization: Overview, Techniques, and Design Guidelines. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 16(3). 439-454.
• October 19: Steimle, J., Brdiczka, O., & Mühlhäuser, M. (2009). CoScribe: Integrating Paper and Digital Documents for Collaborative Knowledge Work. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2(3), 174-188. doi:http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TLT.2009.27
• October 12: Hetzler, E. and Turner., A. (2004) Analysis Experience using Information Visualization. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 24 (5) pp. 22-26.
• Also October 12: J.A. Wise, J.J. Thomas, K. Pennock, D. Lantrip, M. Pottier, A. Schur, and V. Crow. (1995) Visualizing the Non-Visual: Spatial Analysis and Interaction with Information from Text Documents. Proceedings of Information Visualization. pp. 51-58.
• October 5: M. Kreuseler, T. Nocke, and H. Schumann, “A history mechanism for visual data mining,” 2004.
• September 28: N. Wook Kim, S. Card, J. Heer "Tracing Genealogical Data with TimeNets," AVI 2010

Summer 2010

• August 31: Bonsignore, E. M., Dunne, C., Rotman, D., Smith, M., Capone, T., Hansen, D. L., & Shneiderman, B. (n.d.). First Steps to NetViz Nirvana: Evaluating Social Network Analysis with NodeXL. Retrieved from http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.147.7671
• August 24: Bederson, B.B. (2009) The Promise of Zoomable User Interfaces. CHI 2009.
• August 17: Shneiderman, B. and Plaisant, C. (2006) Strategies for evaluating information visualization tools: multi-dimensional in-depth long-term case studies. Proceedings of the 2006 AVI workshop on BEyond time and errors: novel evaluation methods for information visualization, pp. 7.
• July 27: Heer, J., Kong, N., and Agrawala, M. (2009) Sizing the Horizon: The Effects of Chart Size and Layering on the Graphical Perception of Time Series Visualizations. CHI 2009.
• July 20: Heer, J., Bostock, M, and Ogievetsky, V. (2010) A Tour Through the Visualization Zoo. Communications of the ACM, 53(6). 59-67.
• July 13: Fisher, D. and Dourish, P. (2004) Social and Temporal Structures in Everyday Collaboration. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 551-558.
• July 6: Petra Isenberg and Danyel Fisher, "Collaborative Brushing and Linking for Co-located Visual Analytics of Document Collections" Eurographics/ IEEE-VGTC Symposium on Visualization 2009, Volume 28 (2009), Number 3
• June 22: Woods DD, ES Patterson, EM Roth, and K Christofferson. 2002. " Can We Ever Escape from Data Overload?" Cognition, Technology & Work 4:22-36.
• June 15: J. Scholtz, “Developing Qualitative Metrics for Visual Analytic Environments,” Submitted to BELIV, 2010.
• June 8: Jeffrey Heer and Michael Bostock, “Crowdsourcing graphical perception: using mechanical turk to assess visualization design,” in Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (Atlanta, Georgia, USA: ACM, 2010), 203-212, http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1753326.1753357&coll=Portal&dl=GUIDE&CFID=94277522&CFTOKEN=12307620.
• June 1: P. Saraiya, C. North and K. Duca An insight-based methodology for evaluating bioinformatics visualizations. IEEE Transactions on Visualizations and Computer Graphics Vol.11 No.4 (2005), pp. 443-456.
• May 18: Heer, J. and Boyd, D. (2005). Vizster: Visualizing online social networks. In INFOVIS '05: Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, Washington, DC, USA. IEEE Computer Society.

• May 11: Nielsen, C. B., Jackman, S. D., Birol, I., and Jones, S. J. (2009). Abyss-explorer: visualizing genome sequence assemblies. IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, 15(6):881-888.

• May 4: F. Viégas, S.Golder, J. Donath “Visualizing Email Content: Portraying Relationships from Conversational Histories”, CHI 2006

Spring 2010

• Apr. 27: Qu, Y. and Furnas, G.W. Model-driven formative evaluation of exploratory search: A study under a sensemaking framework. Inf. Process. Manage. 44, 2 (2008), 534-555.
• Apr. 13: Chinchor, N., & Pike, W. A. (2009). The science of analytic reporting. Information Visualization, 8(4), 286-293. doi:10.1057/ivs.2009.21
• Apr. 6: Kang, H., Plaisant, C., Lee, B., and Bederson, B.B. NetLens: Iterative Exploration of Content-Actor Network Data. Information Visualization 6 (2007), 18-31.
• Mar. 23: Patterson, E.S., Roth, E.M., and Woods, D.D Predicting Vulnerabilities in Computer-Supported Inferential Analysis under Data Overload. Cognition, Technology & Work Vol.3 No.4 (2001), pp. 224-237.
• Jan 19: Weaver, C. Conjunctive Visual Forms. IEEE Transactions on Visualizations and Computer Graphics 15, 6 (2009), 929-936.