CS888 - Advanced Topics in Computer Graphics

Fall, 2006 - Visualization

Some Possible Papers

Classic Papers

• Baecker, Ronald, "Sorting Out Sorting: A Case Study of Software Visualization for Teaching Computer Science", in Software Visualization, Eds: Stasko, Domingue, Brown and Price, MIT Press, 1998, pp. 369-381. (Taken by Bill M.)
• David England & Richard Cooper. Reconfigurable User Interfaces for Databases. Interfaces to Database Systems, Glasgow 1992, edited by R. Cooper, British Computer Society and Springer-Verlga, 1993. With this paper consider the Iconographer system, which is described in a variety of related papers.
• Fishkin, K. and Stone, M. C. (1995). Enhanced dynamic queries via movable filters. In Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI '95 Conference Proceedings, pages 415-420.
• Lamping, J., Rao, R., and Pirolli, P. (1995). A focus+content technique based on hyperbolic geometry for viewing large hierarchies. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Denver. ACM.
• Larkin, J. and Simon, H.A., "Why a Diagram is (Sometimes) Worth Ten Thousand Words", Cognitive Science, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 65-99, 1987. (Taken by Elodie.)
• Mackinlay, J. "Automating the design of graphical presentations of relational information." ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 5, No. 2, April 1986, pp. 110-141.
• Robertson, G., Mackinlay, J., and Card, S. (1991). Cone trees: Animated 3D visualizations of hierarchical information. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 189-194. ACM. (Taken by Alex K.)
• Robertson, George G. and Card, Stuart K. and Mackinlay, Jock D.", "Information Visualization Using 3D Interactive Animation", Communications of the ACM, vol. 36, no. 4, Apr. 1993, pp. 57--71. (Taken by Christine.)
• Ben Shneiderman, "The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations." Proc. 1996 IEEE Visual Languages, Boulder, CO, Sept. 1996, pp. 336-343.

Recent Papers

• Robert Amar, James Eagan, and John Stasko, "Low Level Components of Analytic Activity in Information Visualization", Proceedings of IEEE InfoVis '05, Minneapolis, MN, Oct. 2005, pp. 111-117.
• Steve Benford, Ian Taylor, David Brailsford, Boriana Koleva, Mike Craven, Mike Fraser, Gail Reynard and Chris Greenhalgh, "Three dimensional visualization of the World Wide Web", ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 31, No. 4, Dec. 1999, pp. 25-??. (Taken by Curtis.)
• Buja, A., Cook, D., and Swayne, D. F. (1996). Interactive high-dimensional data visualization. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 5(2).
• Carpendale, M.S.T and Montagnese, Catherine, "A Framework for Unifying Presentation Space", Proceedings of UIST 2001, Orlando, FL, Nov. 2001, pp. 61-70. (Taken by Andrew.)
• Chaomei Chen, Yue Yu, "Empirical studies of information visualization: a meta-analysis," International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Vol. 53, No. 5, November 2000, pp. 851-866.
• Hong Chen, "Compound Brushing Explained", Information Visualization, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 96-108, 2003.
• Furnas, G. W. and Bederson, B. B. (1995). Space-scale diagrams: Understanding multiscale interfaces. In Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI '95 Conference Proceedings. ACM.
• G. Furnas and X. Zhang, "Illusions of Infinity: Feedback for Infinite Worlds", Proceedings of UIST 2000, San Diego, CA, pp. 237-238, Nov. 2000. (Taken by Ed C.)
• Harry Hochheiser and Ben Shneiderman. "Dynamic query tools for time series data sets: Timebox widgets for interactive exploration," Information Visualization, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2004, pp. 1-18.
• Holmquist, L. E., Skog, T., Informative art: Information visualization in everyday environments. Proc. Graphite '03, pp. 229-235, 2003. (Taken by Paul C.)
• Kasper Hornbaek, Benjamin B. Bederson, and Catherine Plaisant, Navigation Patterns and Usability of Zoomable User Interfaces with and without an Overview, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 362-389, December 2002.
• Christopher Hundhausen, Sarah Douglas, and John Stasko, "A Meta-Study of Algorithm Visualization Effectiveness", Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Vol. 13, No. 3, June 2002, pp. 259-290.
• James A. Jones, Mary Jean Harrold, John Stasko. 2002. Visualization of Test Information to Assist Fault Localization. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering, 467 - 477. (Taken by Ghulam.)
• Daniel Keim, "Information Visualization and Visual Data Mining", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 8, No. 1, Jan-Mar 2002. (Taken by Yi.)
• Wolfgang Muller and Heidrun Schumann, "Visualization Methods for Time-Dependent Data - An Overview," Proceedings of the 2003 Winter Simulation Conference, 2003, pp. 737-745. (Taken by Jeff D.)
• Catherine Plaisant, "The challenge of information visualization evaluation", Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI '04), Gallipoli, Italy, May 2004, pp. 109-116. (Taken by Jie.)
• Skog, T., et al., Between aesthetics and utility: Designing ambient information visualizations. Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, Seattle, WA, Oct. 2003, pp. 233-240. (Taken by Jaime R.)
• Smith, D. R., & Walker, B. N. (2005). Effects of auditory context cues and training on performance of a point estimation sonification task. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19(8), 1065-1087. (Taken by Martin T.)
• Hongzhi Song, Edwin P Curran, & Roy Sterritt, "Multiple foci visualisation of large hierarchies with FlexTree", Information Visualization, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2004, pp. 19-35.
• Anselm Spoerri, (1993), "InfoCrystal: a visual tool for information retrieval & management", Proceedings of the second international conference on Information and knowledge management, 11 - 20. (Taken by Jiwen.)
• John Stasko and Eugene Zhang, "Focus+Context Display and Navigation Techniques for Enhancing Radial, Space-Filling Hierarchy Visualizations", Proceedings of the '00 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, Salt Lake City, UT, pp. 57-65, Oct. 2000. (Taken by Sophy.)
• John Stasko, Richard Catrambone, Mark Guzdial, and Kevin McDonald, "An Evaluation of Space-Filling Information Visualizations for Depicting Hierarchical Structures", International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Vol. 53, No. 5, November 2000, pp. 663-694.
• Storey, Margaret-Anne, Fracchia, F. David and Muller, Hausi A., "Customizing a Fisheye View Algorithm to Preserve the Mental Map", Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 245-267, June 1999. (Taken by Kevin M.)
• M. Q. Wang Baldonado, A. Woodruff, A. Kuchinsky, "Guidelines for Using Multiple Views in Information Visualization," Proceedings of AVI 2000, Palermo, Italy, May 2000, pp. 110-119. (Taken by Yingbin.)
• Colin Ware, Helen Purchase, Linda Colpoys, and Matthew McGill, "Cognitive Measurements of Graph Aesthetics", Information Visualization, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 2002, pp. 103-110. (Taken by Amr E.)
• Zhou, M.X. and Feiner, S.K., "Visual Task Characterization for Automated Visual Discourse Synthesis," Proceedings of SIGCHI '98, Los Angeles, CA, 1998, pp. 392-399.

PDFs of most of these papers can be found here. (Thanks to Martin Talbot.)

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