Instructor: Tamara Munzner

First Class: Wed Sep 9

Time/Location: Monday/Wednesday, 12:30-2:00pm, DMP 201

Office hours: Wed 2-3 or by appointment. X661 ICICS/CS Bldg

Syllabus tentative, final changes will be made by the previous class. Readings should be done before the lecture.

• Information Visualization: Perception for Design, 2nd ed. Colin Ware, Morgan Kaufmann, 2004, ISBN 1-55860-819-2.
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  • chapters.ca CD$93.95, in stock
  • amazon.com, US$62.36, in stock
  • first reading from book due Sep 21

• Envisioning Information. Edward Tufte, Graphics Press, 1990, ISBN 0961392118.
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  • chapters.ca CD$72.00, out of stock
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  • Tufte's own website (US$48)
  • first reading from book due Sep 23

• Visualization. Tamara Munzner. Chapter 27, p 675-707, of Fundamentals of Graphics, Third Edition, by Peter Shirley et al. AK Peters, 2009.

• Ware, Chapter 1: Foundation for a Science of Data Visualization

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• Cluster and Calendar based Visualization of Time Series Data. Jarke J. van Wijk and Edward R. van Selow, Proc InfoVis 99, p 4-9. [Archived version]
• Visual Exploration and Analysis of Historic Hotel Visits. Chris Weaver, David Fyfe, Anthony Robinson, Deryck W. Holdsworth, Donna J. Peuquet and Alan M. MacEachren. Information Visualization (Special Issue on Visual Analytics), Feb 2007.
• MizBee: A Multiscale Synteny Browser. Miriah Meyer, Tamara Munzner, and Hanspeter Pfister. IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics 15(6) (Proc. InfoVis 09), to appear 2009.

• Cerebral: Visualizing Multiple Experimental Conditions on a Graph with Biological Context. Aaron Barsky, Tamara Munzner, Jennifer L. Gardy, and Robert Kincaid. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis 2008) 14(6) (Nov-Dec) 2008, p 1253-1260.
• Session Viewer: Visual Exploratory Analysis of Web Session Logs. Heidi Lam, Daniel Russell, Diane Tang, and Tamara Munzner. Proc IEEE Symp. Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), p 147-154, 2007.
• Constellation: Linguistic Semantic Networks Tamara Munzner, Interactive Visualization of Large Graphs and Networks (PhD thesis) Chapter 5, Stanford University, 2000, pp 87-122
• Developing architectural lighting representations, Daniel C. Glaser, Roger Tan, John Canny, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Proc. InfoVis 2003, pp. 227-232 IEEE DL version (B&W) [Archived version]

• Hotels, Weaver et al. (4:22, 26MB)
• MizBee, Meyer et al. (3:45, 24MB)

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• Chapter 1, Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think. Stuart Card, Jock Mackinlay, and Ben Shneiderman, Morgan Kaufmann 1999. Handed out in class
• A Nested Model for Visualization Design and Validation. Tamara Munzner. IEEE TVCG 15(6) (Proc. InfoVis 2009), to appear.
• MatrixExplorer: a Dual-Representation System to Explore Social Networks. Nathalie Henry and Jean-Daniel Fekete. IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc InfoVis 2006) 12(5), pages 677-684, 2006.
• Low-Level Components of Analytic Activity in Information Visualization Robert Amar, James Eagan, and John Stasko. Proc. InfoVis 05, pp. 111-117. [Archived version]
• Polaris: A System for Query, Analysis and Visualization of Multi-dimensional Relational Databases (extended paper) Chris Stolte, Diane Tang and Pat Hanrahan, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 8, No. 1, January 2002. [Archived version]
  • errata: should be b_j not b_i in section 4.1.3

• The Value of Visualization. Jarke van Wijk. Visualization 2005. [Archived version]
• The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations Ben Shneiderman, Proc. 1996 IEEE Visual Languages, also Maryland HCIL TR 96-13 [Archived version]
• The Structure of the Information Visualization Design Space Stuart Card and Jock Mackinlay, Proc. InfoVis 97
• Automating the Design of Graphical Presentations of Relational Information Jock Mackinlay, ACM Transaction on Graphics, vol. 5, no. 2, April 1986, pp. 110-141.
• Semiology of Graphics, Jacques Bertin, Gauthier-Villars 1967, EHESS 1998
• The Grammar of Graphics, Leland Wilkinson, Springer-Verlag 1999
• A Function-Based Data Model for Visualization Lloyd Treinish, Visualization 1999 Late Breaking Hot Topics
• Rethinking Visualization: A High-Level Taxonomy, Melanie Tory and Torsten Möller, Proc. InfoVis 2004, pp. 151-158.
• Multiscale Visualization Using Data Cubes, Chris Stolte, Diane Tang and Pat Hanrahan, Proc. InfoVis 2002, pp 7-14.

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• Ware, Chapter 5: Visual Attention and Information That Pops Out
• Ware, Chapter 6: Static and Moving Patterns
• Ware, Chapter 11: Thinking with Visualizations
• Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation and the Application to the Development of Graphical Models William S. Cleveland, Robert McGill, J. Am. Stat. Assoc. 79:387, pp. 531-554, 1984.

• Ware, Chapter 2: The Environment, Optics, Resolution, and the Display
• Comment on Cleveland Leland Wilkinson, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 2, 1993,355-360.
• The Psychophysics of Sensory Function, S. S. Stevens, Sensory Communication, MIT Press, 1961, pp 1-33.
• Combining Integral and Separable Subspaces Mikael Johannesson, in J.D. Moore and K. Stenning (eds.), Proc. 23rd Annual Conf. Cognitive Science Society, Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001, p 447-452.
• Strokes for Representing Univariate Vector Field Maps David Fowler and Colin Ware. Proc. Graphics Interface (GI 89), 1989, p 249-253.

• Preattentive Processing (Chris Healey)
• Common Fate
• Biological Motion
• Change Blindness

• saccades

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• Ware, Chapter 3: Lightness, Brightness, Contrast, and Constancy
• Ware, Chapter 4: Color
• Tufte, Chapter 5: Color and Information
• Representing Colors as Three Numbers, Maureen Stone, Computer Graphics and Applications, 25(4), July 2005, pp. 78-85. [Archived version]
• How Not to Lie with Visualization, Bernice E. Rogowitz and Lloyd A. Treinish, Computers In Physics 10(3) May/June 1996, pp 268-273. [Archived version]

Further Readings

• A Field Guide To Digital Color, Maureen Stone, AK Peters 2003. Or, Stone's VIS 2005 Color course notes
• NASA guidelines
• After the Storm
• Color Vision
• Color use guidelines for data representation C. Brewer, 1999. [Archived version]
• Face-based Luminance Matching for Perceptual Colormap Generation Gordon Kindlmann, Erik Reinhard, and Sarah Creem Proc. Vis 2002 [Archived version] [Software]
• Measuring Spectral Sensitivity, Chapter 8 of The Joy of Visual Perception by Peter Kaiser
  • Spectral Sensitivity Curve
• Factors influencing the color matches of normal observers MacLeod and Webster, Colour Vision, eds. J.D. Mollon and L.T. Sharpe, London: Academic Press, 1983.
• Brewer Color Use Guidelines figure

• Brown metamer applet
• vischeck
• colorbrewer

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• Multi-Scale Banking to 45 Degrees Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala. Proc. InfoVis 2006, published as IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 12(5), Sep/Oct 2006, pages 701-708.
• Animated Transitions in Statistical Data Graphics Jeffrey Heer and George G. Robertson. IEEE TVCG (Proc. InfoVis 2007) 13(6): 1240-1247, 2007. [Archived version]
• Scented Widgets: Improving Navigation Cues with Embedded Visualizations. Wesley Willett, Jeffrey Heer, and Maneesh Agrawala. IEEE TVCG (Proc InfoVis 2007) 13(6):1129-1136. [Archived version]
• Graph-Theoretic Scagnostics Leland Wilkinson, Anushka Anand, and Robert Grossman. Proc InfoVis 05.

• The Elements of Graphing Data, William S. Cleveland, Hobart Press 1994.
• Metric-Based Network Exploration and Multiscale Scatterplot Yves Chiricota, Fabien Jourdan, Guy Melancon. Proc. InfoVis 04, pages 135-142.
• Visual information seeking: Tight coupling of dynamic query filters with starfield displays Chris Ahlberg and Ben Shneiderman, Proc SIGCHI '94, pages 313-317. [Archived version]
• High-Dimensional Visual Analytics: Interactive Exploration Guided by Pairwise Views of Point Distributions. Leland Wilkinson, Anushka Anand, and Robert Grossman. IEEE TVCG 12(6): 1363-1372, Nov/Dec 2006.

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• Ware, Chapter 10: Interacting with Visualizations: first half, p 317-324
• Tufte, Chapter 4: Small Multiples
• Exploring High-D Spaces with Multiform Matrices and Small Multiples Alan MacEachren, Xiping Dai, Frank Hardisty, Diansheng Guo, and Gene Lengerich. Proc InfoVis 2003, p 31-38.
• Building Highly-Coordinated Visualizations In Improvise Chris Weaver. Proc. InfoVis 2004
• The Visual Design and Control of Trellis Display R. A. Becker, W. S. Cleveland, and M. J. Shyu (1996). Journal of Computational and Statistical Graphics, 5:123-155. [Archived version]

• State of the Art: Coordinated & Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization Jonathan C. Roberts. Proc. Conference on Coordinated & Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization (CMV) 2007. [Archived version]
• Visual Exploration of Large Structured Datasets. Graham J. Wills. In New Techniques and Trends in Statistics, 237-246. IOS Press, 1995.
• SDM: Selective Dynamic Manipulation of Visualizations, Mei C. Chuah, Steven F. Roth, Joe Mattis, John Kolojejchick, Proc. UIST '95 [Archived version]
• The cognitive coprocessor architecture for interactive user interfaces George Robertson, Stuart K. Card, and Jock D. Mackinlay, Proc. UIST '89, pp 10-18.
• Toolglass and magic lenses: the see-through interface Eric A. Bier, Maureen C. Stone, Ken Pier, William Buxton, and Tony D. DeRose, Proc. SIGGRAPH'93, pp. 73-76. [Archived version]
• Excentric Labeling: Dynamic Neighborhood Labeling for Data Visualization. Jean-Daniel Fekete and Catherine Plaisant. Proc. CHI'99, pages 512-519.

Videos

• Exploring High-D Spaces with Multiform Matrices and Small Multiples, InfoVis 2003 Video Proceedings
• Improvise

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• Tufte, Chapter 3: Layering and Separation
• Tufte, Chapter 6: Narratives of Space and Time
• Ware, Chapter 8: Space Perception and the Display of Data in Space
• VisDB: Database Exploration using Multidimensional Visualization, Daniel A. Keim and Hans-Peter Kriegel, IEEE CG&A, 1994 [Archived version]
• Hierarchical Edge Bundles: Visualization of Adjacency Relations in Hierarchical Data, Danny Holten, Proc InfoVis 06, published as IEEE TVCG 12(5), p 741 - 748, 2006. [Archived version]

• Animation: Can It Facilitate? Barbara Tversky, Julie Morrison, Mireille Betrancourt. International Journal of Human Computer Studies 57:4, pp 247-262, 2002.
• The Table Lens: Merging Graphical and Symbolic Representations in an Interactive Focus + Context Visualization for Tabular Information Ramana Rao and Stuart K. Card, SIGCHI '94, pp. 318-322. [Archived version]
• Extending Distortion Viewing Techniques from 2D to 3D Data M. Sheelagh T. Carpendale, David J. Cowperthwaite, and F. David Fracchia, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Special Issue on Information Visualization, 17(4), pp 42 - 51, July 1997. [Archived version]
• EdgeLens: An Interactive Method for Managing Edge Congestion in Graphs Nelson Wong, M. Sheelagh T. Carpendale, Saul Greenberg, Proc. InfoVis03, pp 51-58.[Archived version]
• Cheops: A Compact Explorer For Complex Hierarchies (PDF from ACM DL) Luc Beaudoin, Marc-Antoine Parent, Louis C. Vroomen, Proc. Visualization 1996, pp 87-92. [Archived version]
• Intelligently resolving point occlusion, Marjan Trutschl, Georges Grinstein, Urska Cvek, Proc. InfoVis 2003, pp 131-136.

Videos

• Outside In excerpt. Silvio Levy, Tamara Munzner, and Delle Maxwell. AK Peters 1994.
• Table Lens

• Perlin autostereo applet
• Blink Comparator
• Small Multiples Animation

• Tufte, Chapter 2: Micro/Macro Readings
• Ware, Chapter 10: Interacting with Visualizations: second half, p 325-345
• A review of overview+detail, zooming, and focus+context interfaces. Andy Cockburn, Amy Karlson, and Benjamin B. Bederson. ACM Computing Surveys 41(1), 2008. [Archived version]
• OrthoZoom Scroller: 1D Multi-Scale Navigation. Catherine Appert and Jean-Daniel Fekete. Proc. SIGCHI 06, pp 21-30. [Archived version]

• Cognitive costs of zooming versus using multiple windows Matthew D. Plumlee and Colin Ware. ACM Trans. Applied Perception (TAP) 13(2):1-31, 2006.
• Space-Scale Diagrams: Understanding Multiscale Interfaces George Furnas and Ben Bederson, Proc SIGCHI '95. [Archived version]
• Smooth and Efficient Zooming and Panning. Jack J. van Wijk and Wim A.A. Nuij, Proc. InfoVis 2003, p. 15-22 [Archived version]
• Pad++: A Zooming Graphical Interface for Exploring Alternate Interface Physics Ben Bederson, and James D Hollan, Proc UIST 94. [Archived version]
• Speed-Dependent Automatic Zooming for Browsing Large Documents Takeo Igarashi and Ken Hinckley, Proc. UIST'00, pp. 139-148. [Archived version]
• Rapid Controlled Movement Through a Virtual 3D Workspace Jock Mackinlay, Stuart Card, and George Robertson. Proc SIGGRAPH '90, pp 171-176. [Archived version]
• Design Guidelines for Landmarks to Support Navigation in Virtual Environments, Norman G. Vinson, Proc. SIGCHI 99. [Archived version]
• Effective View Navigation, George W. Furnas, Proc. SIGCHI 97, pp. 367-374 [Archived version]
• Critical Zones in Desert Fog: Aids to Multiscale Navigation, Susanne Jul and George W. Furnas, Proc. UIST 98 [Archived version]
• Tuning and testing scrolling interfaces that automatically zoom Andy Cockburn, Joshua Savage, Andrew Wallace. Proc CHI 05. [Archived version]

Videos:

• OrthoZoom movie1, movie2
• Pad++

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• The Hyperbolic Browser: A Focus + Context Technique for Visualizing Large Hierarchies John Lamping and Ramana Rao, Proc SIGCHI '95. [Archived version]
• TreeJuxtaposer: Scalable Tree Comparison using Focus+Context with Guaranteed Visibility Tamara Munzner, Francois Guimbretiere, Serdar Tasiran, Li Zhang, and Yunhong Zhou. SIGGRAPH 2003. [Archived version]
• SpaceTree: Supporting Exploration in Large Node Link Tree, Design Evolution and Empirical Evaluation Catherine Plaisant, Jesse Grosjean, and Ben B. Bederson. Proc. InfoVis 2002. [Archived version]
• A Fisheye Follow-up: Further Reflection on Focus + Context. George W. Furnas. SIGCHI 2006.
• Untangling the Usability of Fisheye Menus. Kaspar Hornbaek and Morton Hertzum, ACM Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction 14(2), 2007.

• A review and taxonomy of distortion-oriented presentation techniques Y.K. Leung and M.D. Apperley, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 1994, pp. 126-160. [Archived version]
• Real-time rendering in curved spaces, Jeff Weeks, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Nov-Dec 2002.
• H3: Laying Out Large Directed Graphs in 3D Hyperbolic Space. Tamara Munzner, Proc InfoVis 97. [Archived version]
• Nonlinear Magnification Fields Alan Keahey, Proc InfoVis 1997 [Archived version]
• Composite Rectilinear Deformation for Stretch and Squish Navigation James Slack and Tamara Munzner. Proc. Visualization 2006, published as IEEE TVCG 12(5), Sep 2006, p 901-908.
• Effects of 2D Geometric Transformations on Visual Memory Heidi Lam, Ronald A. Rensink, and Tamara Munzner. Proc. Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV 2006), 119-126, 2006
• Overview Use in Multiple Visual Information Resolution Interfaces Heidi Lam, Tamara Munzner, and Robert Kincaid. Proc. InfoVis 2007, published as IEEE TVCG, Nov/Dec 2007, to appear.

• Hyperbolic Tree, CHI 96
• TreeJuxtaposer, SIGGRAPH 2003

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• Hyperdimensional Data Analysis Using Parallel Coordinates Edward J. Wegman. Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 85, No. 411. (Sep., 1990), pp. 664-675. [Archived version]
• Hierarchical Parallel Coordinates for Exploration of Large Datasets Ying-Huey Fua, Matthew O. Ward, and Elke A. Rundensteiner, IEEE Visualization '99. [Archived version]
• Glimmer: Multilevel MDS on the GPU. Stephen Ingram, Tamara Munzner and Marc Olano. IEEE TVCG, 15(2):249-261, Mar/Apr 2009.
• Cluster Stability and the Use of Noise in Interpretation of Clustering, George S. Davidson, Brian N. Wylie, Kevin W. Boyack, Proc InfoVis 2001. [Archived version]
• Interactive Hierarchical Dimension Ordering, Spacing and Filtering for Exploration Of High Dimensional Datasets. Jing Yang, Wei Peng, Matthew O. Ward and Elke A. Rundensteiner, Proc. InfoVis 2003. [Archived version]

Further Readings

• Fast Multidimensional Scaling through Sampling, Springs and Interpolation Alistair Morrison, Greg Ross, Matthew Chalmers, Information Visualization 2(1) March 2003, pp. 68-77. [Archived version]
• Visualizing Proximity Data Rich DeJordy, Stephen P. Borgatti, Chris Roussin and Daniel S. Halgin. Field Methods 19(3):239-263, 2007. [Archived version]
• Visualizing the non-visual: spatial analysis and interaction with information from text documents James A. Wise, James J. Thomas, Kelly Pennock, David Lantrip, Marc Pottier, Anne Schur, and Vern Crow. Proc InfoVis 1995.
• Parallel Coordinates: A Tool for Visualizing Multi-Dimensional Geometry. Alfred Inselberg and Bernard Dimsdale, IEEE Visualization '90, 1990.
• Steerable, Progressive Multidimensional Scaling Matt Williams and Tamara Munzner Proc. InfoVis 2004, pp 57-64
• The Automated Multidimensional Detective, Alfred Inselberg and Tova Avidan, Proc. InfoVis 99, p 112-119
• Spatialization Design: Comparing Points and Landscapes Melanie Tory, David W. Sprague, Fuqu Wu, Wing Yan So, and Tamara Munzner. Proc InfoVis 2007, to appear.

• Graph Visualisation in Information Visualisation: a Survey Ivan Herman, Guy Melancon, M. Scott Marshall. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 6(1), pp. 24-44, 2000 [Archived version]
• Configuring Hierarchical Layouts to Address Research Questions. Adrian Slingsby, Jason Dykes, and Jo Wood. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 15 (6), Nov-Dec 2009 (Proc. InfoVis 2009). [Archived version]
• Multiscale Visualization of Small World Networks David Auber, Yves Chiricota, Fabien Jourdan, Guy Melancon, Proc. InfoVis 2003 [Archived version]
• Topological Fisheye Views for Visualizing Large Graphs, Emden Gansner, Yehuda Koren and Stephen North, IEEE TVCG 11(4), p 457-468, 2005 [Archived version]
• IPSep-CoLa: An Incremental Procedure for Separation Constraint Layout of Graphs Tim Dwyer, Kim Marriott, and Yehuda Koren. Proc. InfoVis 2006, published as IEEE TVCG 12(5), Sep 2006, p 821-828. [Archived version]

• Animated Exploration of Graphs with Radial Layout Ka-Ping Yee, Danyel Fisher, Rachna Dhamija, and Marti Hearst, Proc InfoVis 2001. [Archived version]
• Cushion Treemaps Jack J. van Wijk and Huub van de Wetering, Proc InfoVis 1999, pp 73-78 [Archived version]
• Interactive Visualization of Small World Graphs Frank van Ham and Jarke van Wijk, Proc. InfoVis 2004, pp 199-206.
• Interactive Information Visualization of a Million Items Jean-Daniel Fekete and Catherine Plaisant, Proc InfoVis 2002. [Archived version]
• Online Dynamic Graph Drawing Yaniv Frishman and Ayellet Tal. Proc EuroVis 2007, 75-82.
• TopoLayout: Multi-Level Graph Layout by Topological Features. Daniel Archambault, Tamara Munzner, and David Auber Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 13(2):305--317, Mar/Apr 2007.

Videos

• Animated Exploration of Graphs with Radial Layout video, Video Proceedings Vis/InfoVis 2001
• Online Dynamic Graph Drawing
• Configuring Hierarchical Layouts to Address Research Questions

• Ware, Appendix C: The Perceptual Evaluation of Visualization Techniques and Systems
• Sizing the Horizon: The Effects of Chart Size and Layering on the Graphical Perception of Time Series Visualizations. Jeffrey Heer, Nicholas Kong, and Maneesh Agrawala. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2009. pp. 1303 - 1312.
• Effectiveness of Animation in Trend Visualization. George G. Robertson, Roland Fernandez, Danyel Fisher, Bongshin Lee, and John T. Stasko: IEEE TVCG (Proc. InfoVis 2008). 14(6): 1325-1332 (2008)
• The Perceptual Scalability of Visualization Beth Yost and Chris North. Proc. InfoVis 06, published as IEEE TVCG 12(5), Sep 2006, p 837-844. [Archived version]
• Turning Pictures into Numbers: Extracting and Generating Information from Complex Visualizations J. Gregory Trafton, Susan S. Kirschenbaum, Ted L. Tsui, Robert T. Miyamoto, James A. Ballas, and Paula D. Raymond. Intl Journ. Human Computer Studies 53(5), 2000, 827-850. [Archived version]

• Rosling/Gapminder TED talk
• Snap-Together Visualization: Can Users Construct and Operate Coordinated Views? Chris North, B. Shneiderman. Intl. Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Academic Press, 53(5), pg. 715-739, (November 2000). [Archived version]
• Navigating Hierarchically Clustered Networks through Fisheye and Full-Zoom Methods Doug Schaffer and Zhengping Zuo, and Saul Greenberg, and Lyn Bartram and John C. Dill and Shelli Dubs and Mark Roseman. ACM Trans. Computer-Human Interaction (ToCHI), 3(2) p 162-188, 1996. [Archived version]
• Task-Centered User Interface Design, Clayton Lewis and John Rieman, Chapters 0-5. [Archived version] (Book available in its entirety online.)
• The challenge of information visualization evaluation Catherine Plaisant. Proc. Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2004 [Archived version]
• Strategies for Evaluating Information Visualization Tools: Multi-dimensional In-depth Long-term Case Studies. Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant, Proc. AVI Workshop on BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization (BELIV), 2006, p 38--43.
• Enrico Bertini's BELIV06 list of evaluation in infovis

• Vis for the Masses, Will Chao
  papers to pick from
  • Casual Information Visualization: Depictions of Data in Everyday Life. Zachary Pousman, John Stasko, Michael Mateas. IEEE TVCG (Proc. InfoVis 2007) 13(6):1145-1152, 2007.
  • Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Asynchronous Collaborative Information Visualization. Jeffrey Heer, Fernanda B. Viegas, Martin Wattenberg. Proc CHI 2007.
  • chosen: Many Eyes: A Site for Visualization at Internet Scale. Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, Frank van Ham, Jesse Kriss, Matt McKeon. Proc InfoVis 2007. See also other ManyEyes papers.
  • chosen: Baby Names, Visualization, and Social Data Analysis. Martin Wattenberg. Proc InfoVis 2005.
  • chosen: Your Place or Mine? Visualization as a Community Component. Catalina M. Danis, Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, Jesse Kriss. Proc CHI 2008.
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• Tables/Walls, Jen Fernquist
  papers to pick from
  • chosen: Collaborative Brushing and Linking for Co-located Visual Analytics of Document Collections. Petra Isenberg and Danyel Fisher. Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis), 28(3):1031-1038, June 2009.
  • chosen: EMDialog: Bringing Information Visualization into the Museum. Uta Hinrichs, Holly Schmidt and Sheelagh Carpendale. IEEE TVCG (Proc. InfoVis 2008) 14(6):1181-1188, 2008.
  • Visualization Techniques for Circular Tabletop Interfaces. Frederic Vernier, Neal Lesh, Chia Shen. ACM Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), 2002.
  • The Effects of Peripheral Vision and Physical Navigation in Large Scale Visualization. Robert Ball and Chris North. Proc. Graphics Interface (GI) pp. 9-16, 2008.
  • see also North's Display Wall UI course page
  • chosen: Visualizing Biodiversity with Voronoi Treemaps, Michael S. Horn, Matthew Tobiasz, Chia Shen. Intl. Symp. Voronoi Diagrams in Science and Engineering, Copenhagen, Denmark. June 23 - 26, 2009.
  Slides: PDF 1up 16up, PPT
  

• Time-Series Data, James Styles
  papers to pick from
  • LiveRAC - Interactive Visual Exploration of System Management Time-Series Data. Peter McLachlan, Tamara Munzner, Eleftherios Koutsofios, Stephen North. Proc CHI 2008, pp 1483-1492.
  • Interactive Pattern Search in Time Series Buono, P., Aris, A., Plaisant, C., Khella, A. and Shneiderman, B. Proc. VDA 2005.
  • chosen: Interactive Visualization of Serial Periodic Data, John V. Carlis and Joseph A. Konstan, Proc UIST 98.
  • chosen: Time-series Bitmaps: A Practical Visualization Tool for working with Large Time Series Databases Kumar, N., Lolla N., Keogh, E., Lonardi, S. , Ratanamahatana, C. A. and Wei, L. (2005). Proc. SDM '05, pp. 531-535
  • chosen: Visualizing and discovering non-trivial patterns in large time series databases. Jessica Lin, Eamonn Keogh, Stefano Lonardi. Information Visualization 4(2):61-82, July 2005.
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• Glyphs, Ivan Zhao
  papers to pick from
  • chosen: Visualizing Multi-dimensional Clusters, Trends, and Outliers using Star Coordinates Eser Kandogan, Proc. KDD 2001
  • StarClass: Interactive Visual Classification Using Star Coordinates, Soon Tee Teoh and Kwan-Liu Ma, Proc. SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, 2003.
  • A Taxonomy of Glyph Placement Strategies for Multidimensional Data Visualization Matthew O. Ward, Information Visualization Journal, Palgrave, Volume 1, Number 3-4, December 2002, pp 194-210.
  • chosen: Glyphs for Software Visualization. Mei C. Chuah and Stephen G. Eick. Bell Laboratories 5th International Workshop on Program Comprehension (WPC '97).
  • Multivariate Glyphs for Multi-Object Clusters. Eleanor Chlan and Penny Rheingans. Proc InfoVis 2005, pp. 141-148, 2005.
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Slides: PDF Information Visualization Course Notes, Andrews, Chapter 7: Visualising Text and Object Collections (Feature Spaces)

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• Ivan Zhao
• Alex Totolici
• James Styles
• Shama Rashid
• Mohan Rajamanickam
• Anika Mahmud
• Russ MacKenzie
• Billy Lam

• Jen Fernquist
• Dustin Dunsmuir
• Thomas Dang
• Will Chao
• Matt Brehmer
• Alex Bradley
• Rolf Biehn
• John Bartlett

• Focus+Context, Dustin Dunsmuir
  papers to pick from
  • Fisheyes Are Good for Large Steering Tasks. Carl Gutwin and Amy Skopik, CHI 2003.
  • chosen: Keeping things in context: a comparative evaluation of focus plus context screens, overviews, and zooming. Patrick Baudisch, Nathaniel Good, Victoria Bellotti, and Pamela Schraedley. CHI 2002.
  • A Comparison of Traditional and Fisheye Radar View Techniques for Spatial Collaboration. Wendy A. Schafer and Doug A. Bowman, Graphics Interface 2003.
  • Using Distortion-Oriented Displays to Support Workspace Awareness Saul Greenberg, Carl Gutwin, Andy Cockburn. Proc. HCI'96 Conference on People and Computers XI, 1996, p.299-314. [Archived version]
  • Overview Use in Multiple Visual Information Resolution Interfaces Heidi Lam, Tamara Munzner, and Robert Kincaid. Proc. InfoVis 2007, published as IEEE TVCG, Nov/Dec 2007.
  • chosen: Evaluation of Semantic Fisheye Zooming to Provide Focus+Context. Andrew J. Afram, John Briedis, Daisuke Fujiwara, Robert J.K. Jacob, Caroline G.L. Cao, and David Kahle. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 51st Annual Meeting, 2007. p.459-463.
  • chosen: An Improved Fisheye Zoom Algorithm for Visualizing and Editing Hierarchical Models. Tobias Reinhard, Silvio Meier, and Martin Glinz. Second International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Visualization, 2007.
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• Text, Mohan Rajamanickam
  papers to pick from:
  • chosen: DocuBurst: Visualizing Document Content using Language Structure. Christopher Collins, Sheelagh Carpendale, Gerald Penn. EuroVis 2009.
  • The Chinese Room: Visualization and Interaction to Understand and Correct Ambiguous Machine Translation. Joshua Albrecht, Rebecca Hwa, G. Elisabeta Marai. EuroVis 2009.
  • chosen: Participatory Visualization with Wordle. Fernanda B. Viegas, Martin Wattenberg, Jonathan Feinberg. InfoVis 2009.
  • Mapping Text with Phrase Nets. Frank van Ham, Martin Wattenberg, Fernanda B. Viegas
  • Visualizing Human Dialog Annie Tat and Sheelagh Carpendale. Proc. Information Visualisation 2002 (IV 2002), pages 16-24, IEEE 2002.
  • chosen: ThemeRiver: Visualizing Thematic Changes in Large Document Collections Susan Havre, Elizabeth Hetzler, Paul Whitney, Lucy Nowell. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 8(1), pp 9-20, 2002.
  • InfoCrystal: A Visual Tool for Information Retrieval Anselm Spoerri, IEEE Visualization '93
  • TileBars: Visualization of Term Distribution Information in Full Text Information Access, Marti Hearst, Proc. SIGCHI 1995, pp. 59-66.
  • Interactive Visualization of Multiple Query Results S. Havre, E. Hetzler, K. Perrine, E. Jurrus, and N. Miller, Proc InfoVis 2001
  • TextArc: Showing Word Frequency and Distribution in Text. W. Bradford Paley. InfoVis 2002 Poster Compendium
  • Visualizing Human Dialog. Annie Tat and M. Sheelagh T. Carpendale. Proc. Conference on Information Visualization (IV London) 2002.
  • Visualizing Email Content: Portraying Relationships from Conversational Histories. Fernanda B. Villegas, Scott Golder, and Judith Donath. Proc. SIGCHI 2006.
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• Cartography/Geospatial, Billy Lam
• Cartography/Geospatial, Shama Rashid
  papers to pick from
  • chosen: Geographically weighted visualization - interactive graphics for scale-varying exploratory analysis Jason Dykes and Chris Brunsdon, IEEE TVCG 13(6):1161-1168 (Proc. InfoVis 2007)
  • chosen: Hotmap: Looking at Geographic Attention Danyel Fisher, IEEE TVCG 13(6):1184-1191 (Proc. InfoVis 2007) [Archived version]
  • Interactive Visual Exploration of a Large Spatio-temporal Dataset: Reflections on a Geovisualization Mashup Jo Wood, Jason Dykes, Aidan Slingsby, and Keith Clarke IEEE TVCG 13(6):1176-1183 (Proc. InfoVis 2007)
  • CartoDraw: A Fast Algorithm for Generating Contiguous Cartograms Daniel A. Keim, Stephen C. North, Christopher Panse. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 95-110, 2004
  • chosen: Case Study: Design and Assessment of an Enhanced Geographic Information System for Exploration of Multivariate Health Statistics Robert M. Edsall, Alan M. MacEachren and Linda Pickle. Proc. InfoVis 2001.
  • chosen: Geographic visualization: designing manipulable maps for exploring temporally varying georeferenced statistics Alan M. MacEachren, A.M. Boscoe, F.P. Haug, D. Pickle, L.W. (1998). Information Visualization. 1998, 87-94.
  • Conditioned Choropleth Maps and Hypothesis Generation. Daniel B. Carr, Denis White, Duncan MacPherson, and Alan M. MacEachren, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 95(1), 2005, pp. 32-53
  • chosen: The space-time cube revisited from a geovisualization perspective. Menno-Jan Kraak, Proceedings of the 21st International Cartographic Conference (ICC), 2003, pp. 1988-96
  • chosen: Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections. Jarke J. van Wijk. The Cartographic Journal, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp.32-42, February 2008.
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• Animation, Russ MacKenzie
  papers to pick from
  • chosen: Animation: Can It Facilitate? Barbara Tversky, Julie Morrison, Mireille Betrancourt. International Journal of Human Computer Studies 57:4, pp 247-262, 2002.
  • chosen: Principles of Traditional Animation Applied to Computer Animation John Lasseter, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 87, Computer Graphics, 21(4), pp. 35-44, July 1987.
    Illustrations of 11 Principles
  • chosen: Interactive Visualization of Genealogical Graphs Michael J. McGuffin, Ravin Balakrishnan. Proc. InfoVis 2005, pp 17-24.
  • EdgeLens: An Interactive Method for Managing Edge Congestion in Graphs Nelson Wong, M. Sheelagh T. Carpendale, Saul Greenberg, Proc. InfoVis03, pp 51-58.[Archived version]
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• Social Networks, Alex Totolici
  papers to pick from
  • chosen: Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks. Jeffrey Heer and danah boyd. InfoVis 2005.
    Video.
  • chosen: Visualizing Social Groups Linton C. Freeman, American Statistical Association, 1999 Proceedings of the Section on Statistical Graphics, 2000, 47-54.
  • Visualizing Social Networks Linton C. Freeman, Journal of Social Structure, 1, 2000, (1).
  • chosen: Social Network Fragments, Chap 7, danah boyd MS Thesis "Faceted Id/entity: Managing representation in a digital world"
  • Online Dynamic Graph Drawing Yaniv Frishman and Ayellet Tal. Proc EuroVis 2007, 75-82.
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• Perception, Matt Brehmer
  papers to pick from
  • Stevens Dot Patterns for 2D Flow Visualization. Laura G. Tateosian, Brent M. Dennis, and Christopher G. Healey. Proc. Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV) 2006.
  • chosen: Visualizing Data with Motion Daniel E. Huber and Christopher G. Healey. Proc. IEEE Visualization 2005, pp. 527-534.
  • Internal vs. External Information in Visual Perception Ronald A. Rensink. Proc. 2nd Int. Symposium on Smart Graphics, pp 63-70, 2002. [Archived version]
  • Current approaches to change blindness Daniel J. Simons. Visual Cognition 7, 1/2/3 (2000), 1-15.
  • Why a Diagram is (Sometimes) Worth Ten Thousand Words, Larkin, J. and Simon, H.A., Cognitive Science, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 65-99, 1987.
  • chosen: Face-based Luminance Matching for Perceptual Colormap Generation Gordon Kindlmann, Erik Reinhard, and Sarah Creem Proc. Vis 2002 [Archived version] [Software]
  • chosen: Using Haptics to Convey Cause-and-Effect Relations in Climate Visualization. Nesra Yannier, Cagatay Basdogan, Serdar Tasiran, and Omer Lutfi Sen. IEEE Transactions on Haptics 1(2):130-141, 2008.
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• Software, Rolf Biehn
  papers to pick from:
  • Visualizing Compiled Executables for Malware Analysis Daniel A. Quist and Lorie M. Liebrock, VizSec 2009.
  • Visually Encoding Program Test Information to Find Faults in Software James Eagan and Mary Jen Harrold and James A. Jones and John Stasko Proc InfoVis 2001 pp. 33-36.
  • chosen: Visualizing Application Behavior on Superscalar Processors Chris Stolte, Robert Bosch, Pat Hanrahan, and Mendel Rosenblum, Proc. InfoVis 1999
  • Visualization of Program-Execution Data for Deployed Software Alessandro Orso, James Jones, Mary Jean Harrold. Proc. of the ACM Symp. on Software Visualization, San Diego, CA, June 2003, pages 67--76. [Archived version]
  • Software Visualization in the Large Thomas A. Ball and Stephen G. Eick, IEEE Computer 29(4):33-43, 1996 [Archived version]
  • chosen: Execution Patterns in Object-Oriented Visualization Wim De Pauw, David Lorenz, John Vlissides, and Mark Wegman. Proc. Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems (COOTS '98) [Archived version]
  • Strata-Various :-) Multi-Layer Visualization of Dynamics in Software System Behavior Doug Kimelman, Bryan Rosenburg, Tova Roth. Proc. Visualization 1994
  • chosen: CVSscan: Visualization of Code Evolution. Lucian Voinea, Alex Telea, and Jarke J. van Wijk. Proc. SoftVis 2005, p 47-56.
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• Computer Networks, Alex Bradley
  papers to pick from:
  • chosen: Visualizing Network Data Richard A. Becker, Stephen G. Eick, Allan R. Wilks. IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) Vol 1 No 1, March 1995, pp 16-28. [Archived version]
  • Visualizing Large-Scale Telecommunication Networks and Services Eleftherios Koutsofios, Stephen C. North, Russell Truscott, Daniel A. Keim. Proc IEEE Visualization 1999, pp 457-461.
  • Countering Security Analyst and Network Administrator Overload Through Alert and Packet Visualization G. Conti, K. Abdullah, J. Grizzard, J. Stasko, J. Copeland, M. Ahamad, H. Owen and C. Lee. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), March 2006.
  • Mapping and Visualizing the Internet Bill Cheswick, Hal Burch, and Steve Branigan USENIX, San Diego, CA, June 2000.
  • chosen: OverFlow: An Overview Visualization for Network Analysis. J. Glanfield, S. Brooks, T. Taylor, D. Paterson, C Smith, C. Gates, J. McHugh. VizSec 2009.
  • chosen: Countering Security Information Overload Through Alert and Packet Visualization. G. Conti, K. Abdullah, J. Grizzard, J. Stasko, J. Copeland, M. Ahamad, H. Owen and C. Lee. IEEE CG&A, 2006.
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• Trees, Anika Mahmud
  papers to pick from:
  • Cone Trees: Animated 3D Visualizations of Hierarchical Information George G. Robertson, Jock D. Mackinlay, Stuart K. Card, SIGCHI 1991
  • Multitrees: Enriching and reusing hierarchical structures. George W. Furnas and Jeff Zacks, SIGCHI 1994 , pp 330-336.
  • Polyarchy Visualization: Visualizing multiple intersecting hierarchies George G. Robertson, Kim Cameron, Mary Czerwinski, and Daniel Robbins. Information Visualization, 1(1), p.50-65, 2002
  • chosen: User Experiments with Tree Visualization Systems, Alfred Kobsa, Proc InfoVis 2004
  • H3: Laying Out Large Directed Graphs in 3D Hyperbolic Space. Tamara Munzner, Proc InfoVis 97. [Archived version]
  • chosen: Cushion Treemaps. Jack J. van Wijk and Huub van de Wetering, Proc InfoVis 1999, pp 73-78.
  • chosen: Botanical Visualization of Huge Hierarchies. Ernst Kleiberg, Huub van de Wetering, and Jarke J. van Wijk Proc. InfoVis 2001, p 87-94.
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• Navigation/Zooming, Thomas Dang
  • Smooth and Efficient Zooming and Panning. Jack J. van Wijk and Wim A.A. Nuij, Proc. InfoVis 2003, p. 15-22 [Archived version]
  • Zooming versus multiple window interfaces: Cognitive costs of visual comparisons.. Matthew Plumlee and Colin Ware. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 13(2): 179-209 (2006)
  • Pad++: A Zooming Graphical Interface for Exploring Alternate Interface Physics Ben Bederson, and James D Hollan, Proc UIST 94. [Archived version]
  • chosen: Constant Information Density in Zoomable Interfaces Allison Woodruff, James Landay, Michael Stonebraker, Proceedings of AVI '98, pp. 57-65. [Archived version]
  • Domain Name Based Visualization of Web Histories in a Zoomable User Interface R. Gandhi, G. Kumar, B. Bederson and B. Shneiderman. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Web-based Information Visualization (WebVis'00), pages 591-598, Sep. 2000.
  • Effective View Navigation, George W. Furnas, Proc. SIGCHI 97, pp. 367-374 [Archived version]
  • chosen: Critical Zones in Desert Fog: Aids to Multiscale Navigation, Susanne Jul and George W. Furnas, Proc. UIST 98 [Archived version]
  • chosen: Speed-Dependent Automatic Zooming for Browsing Large Documents Takeo Igarashi and Ken Hinckley, Proc. UIST'00, pp. 139-148.
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• Medical/Volumes, John Bartlett
  • chosen: High Precision Augmented Reality Haptics. Gerald Bianchi, Benjamin Knoerlein, Gabor Szekely, and Matthias Harders. Proc. EuroHaptics 2006, pages 169–177, Jul 2006.
  • chosen: A parallel coordinates style interface for exploratory volume visualization. Melanie Tory, Simeon Potts, and Torsten Moller. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 11(1):71–80, 2005.
  • chosen: Opacity peeling for direct volume rendering. Christof Rezk-Salama and Andreas Kolb. Computer Graphics Forum, 25(3):597–606, 2006.
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• Process and Pitfalls in Writing Information Visualization Research Papers. Tamara Munzner. Chapter from Information Visualization: Human-Centered Issues and Perspectives. Andreas Kerren, John T. Stasko, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Chris North, eds. Springer LNCS Volume 4950, p 134-153, 2008.

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• Alex Bradley, A Source Code History Navigator
• Alex Totolici, ExecVus: Execution Views
• Anika Mahmud, Migrant Boats
• Billy Lam, PerspectiveEye: Seeing the World from Different Perspectives
• Dustin Dunsmuir, Selective Semantic Zoom of a Document Collection
• Ivan Zhao, Discover Correlation with Parallel Color Bars
• James Styles, Visualization Tool for Analyzing SLS Runtime Behaviour
• Jen Fernquist, Creation and Comparison of Sustainable Neighbourhood Patterns
• John Barlett, The Use of Augmented Reality in the Operating Room: a Review
• Matthew Brehmer, Informed Omnivore
• Mohan Raj, Visualization Systems as Navigational Aids Around the Web of Personal Information: an Analysis
• Rolf Biehn, SDAT: A Visual Source Code Comparison Tool
• Russ Mackenzie, Bundler
• Shama Rashid, Diseases Data Correlator
• Thomas Dang, Further Tuning to SDAZ to Address Overshooting and Course-correction Problems
• Will Chao, Napkin Sketch Visualizations: Sketch-Based Authoring of Improvisational Visualizations