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Fall 2017 Information Visualization - CPSC 683 - still under construction

General Instructions

• Visual journal instructions Δ

Reading Duties

1. What did the author(s) think was the main point of the paper?
2. What do you think is the main point of the paper?
3. What practical use can you make of the contents of the paper (or your classmates)
4. Keep the notes – ask questions of the people answering 1, 2, and 3 to be clear about what you write.

If you have class notes to upload, you can send them to Sheelagh. Please send a word version of the notes and attach images separately. Also, please accurately name the file according to week and reading)

Project:

This is a project based course. There is no final examination. The project is to be done individually. Consider it seriously as it represents 65% of your final grade. It will basically consist of choosing a dataset and acquiring the data, sketching and designing a visualization, surveying existing similar visualization methods, creating the interactive visualization, writing a project report, and presenting the project during the last class.

You may use existing components as part of your system - fully acknowledged, as well as any programming language or toolkit of your choice.

Project Schedule:

• [Sept 19th] Project / dataset approval: 1 page handed in
• [Oct 10th] Project check in #1 presentation: short presentation
• [Nov 7th] Project check in #2 presentation: short presentation
• [Dec 5th] Final project presentation: longer presentation
• [Dec. 8th] Final project report due

Week 1 (Sep 12, 2017)

Intro / Value of InfoVis

Lecture Notes

• Course Outline Δ
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• Project Approval due Sept. 19th Δ

Lecture

• introduction slides A Δ
• introduction slides B Δ

Readings Assigned

• Visual language: global communication for the 21st century

• Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps

• Considering Visual Variables as a Basis for Information Visualization
  -> Sheelagh Carpendale, Research report 2001-693-16, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, AB, Canada, 2003. PDF
• Fekete, Jean-Daniel, Jarke J. Van Wijk, John T. Stasko, and Chris North. "The value of information visualization." In Information visualization, pp. 1-18. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.

Optional Readings

• Automating the Design of Graphical Presentations of Relational Information Jock Mackinlay, ACM Transaction on Graphics, vol. 5, no. 2, April 1986, pp. 110-141.
• The rest of Visual Language
• The rest of Semiology of Graphics
• Scott McCloud. Understanding Comics

Week 2 (Sep 19, 2017)

Semiotics and Visualization

Lecture

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Reading Duties

• Reading Duties: Sept. 19, 2017 Δ

Readings Assigned

• A. Dix (2008). Externalization – how writing changes thinking . Interfaces, 76, pp. 18-19. Autumn 2008.

http://alandix.com/academic/papers/externalisation-2008/

• L. Tweedie. (1997) Characterizing Interactive Externalizations. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 375-382, ACM Press,

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=258803&CFID=838044186&CFTOKEN=76351779

• Jagoda Walny, Bongshin Lee, Paul Johns, Nathalie Henry Riche and Sheelagh Carpendale. (2012) Understanding Pen and Touch Interaction for Data Exploration on Interactive Whiteboards. Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on, 18(12):2779-2788, December, 2012.

http://innovis.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/innovis/uploads/Publications/Publications/Walny2012InfoVis.pdf

• Jagoda Walny, Samuel Huron and Sheelagh Carpendale. An Exploratory Study of Data Sketching for Visual Representation. Computer Graphics Forum, 34(3) The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015.

http://innovis.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/innovis/uploads/Publications/Publications/Walny2015_DataSketches.pdf

Optional Readings

• S. Greenberg, S. Carpendale, N. Marquardt, B. Buxton. (2012) Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook, Morgan-Kaufmann, Elsevier Science & Technology. ISBN: 978-0-12-381959-8, pp. I-VIII, 1-262, January 2012 (http://sketchbook.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/ )

Week 3 (Sep 26, 2017)

Constructive Visualization

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Reading Duties

• Reading Duties: Sept. 26, 2017 Δ

Readings Assigned

• Huron, Samuel, Sheelagh Carpendale, Alice Thudt, Anthony Tang, and Michael Mauerer. "Constructive visualization." In Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems, pp. 433-442. ACM, 2014.

http://innovis.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/innovis/uploads/Publications/Publications/huron2014.pdf

• S. Huron, Y. Jansen, S. Carpendale. (2014). Constructing Visual Representations: Investigating the Use of Tangible Tokens. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis‘14), 20(12): 2102-2111. http://constructive.gforge.inria.fr/#!index.md

http://innovis.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/innovis/uploads/Publications/Publications/constructing-visual-representations.pdf

• Tiffany Wun, Jennifer Payne, Samuel Huron, Sheelagh Carpendale. Comparing Bar Chart Authoring with Microsoft Excel and TangibleTiles. In the 18th Proceedings of the Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis). (Groningen, the Netherlands), The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2016.

Optional Readings

Week 4 (Oct 3, 2017)

?? Physicalization

Readings Assigned:

• Simon Stusak, Aurélien Tabard, Franziska Sauka, Rohit Ashok Khot, Andreas Butz. Activity Sculptures: Exploring the Impact of Physical Visualizations on Running Activity. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings Scientific Visualization / Information Visualization 2014), vol. 20, no. 12, pp. 2201-2210, Dec. 2014, doi:10.1109/TVCG.2014.2352953 (bib)

http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/forschung/publikationen/detail?pub=stusak2014vis

• Yvonne Jansen, Pierre Dragicevic, Petra Isenberg, Jason Alexander, Abhijit Karnik, Johan Kildal, Sriram Subramanian, Kasper Hornbæk. Opportunities and Challenges for Data Physicalization. Proceedings of the 2015 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI'15). Pages 3227-3236.

https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01120152/document

• Simon Stusak, Moritz Hobe, Andreas Butz

If Your Mind Can Grasp It, Your Hands Will Help In Proceedings of the TEI '16: Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, February 14-17, 2016 (bib) http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/pubdb/publications/pub/stusak2016tei/stusak2016tei.pdf

• Trevor Hogan, Eva Hornecker, Simon Stusak, Yvonne Jansen, Jason Alexander, Andrew Vande Moere, Uta Hinrichs, Kieran Nolan

Tangible Data, explorations in data physicalization In Proceedings of the TEI '16: Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, February 14-17, 2016 http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/pubdb/publications/pub/stusak2016teiWorkshop/stusak2016teiWorkshop.pdf

• Simon Stusak, Jeannette Schwarz, Andreas Butz

Evaluating the Memorability of Physical Visualizations In CHI '15: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Seoul, South Korea, April 18 - 23, 2015. ACM, New York, NY, USA., doi: 10.1145/2702123.2702248

 http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/pubdb/publications/pub/stusak2015chi/stusak2015chi.pdf 

Week 5 (Oct 12, 2016)

Personal Visualization

Lectures

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Project Presentation #1

Readings Assigned:

• D. Huang, M. Tory, B. Adriel Aseniero, L. Bartram, S. Bateman, S. Carpendale, A. Tang, R. Woodbury (2015). Personal Visualization and Personal Visual Analytics, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 21(3): 420-433. https://vimeo.com/136210716
• Choe, E.K., Lee, N.B., Lee, B., Pratt, W. and Kientz, J.A., (2014) Understanding quantified-selfers' practices in collecting and exploring personal data. In Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems (pp. 1143-1152).
• Stusak, S., Tabard, A., Sauka, F., Khot, R.A. and Butz, A., 2014. Activity sculptures: Exploring the impact of physical visualizations on running activity. IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, 20(12), pp.2201-2210.
• Thudt, A., Baur, D., Huron, S. and Carpendale, S., 2016. Visual mementos: Reflecting memories with personal data. IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, 22(1), pp.369-378.

Optional:

Week 6 (Oct 17, 2017)

SciVis and Biomimcry

Readings Assigned - SciVis:

Readings Assigned - Biomimicry:

• Moere, A. V., & Lau, A. (2007, December). In-formation flocking: an approach to data visualization using multi-agent formation behavior. In Australian Conference on Artificial Life (pp. 292-304). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
• Moere, A. V., Clayden, J. J., & Dong, A. (2006, December). Data clustering and visualization using cellular automata ants. In Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (pp. 826-836). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
• Huron, S., Vuillemot, R., & Fekete, J. D. (2013). Visual sedimentation. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 19(12), 2446-2455.
• Marjan Eggermont, Charles Perin, Bon Adriel Aseniero, Roxanne Fallah, Sheelagh Carpendale. (2016) Leveraging Biological Inspiration in an Information Visualization Class. In Innovations in the Pedagogy of Data Visualization workshop At IEEE Information Visualization.

Optional Readings

Week 7 (Oct 26, 2016)

Interaction

Lecture:

Readings Assigned:

• Elmqvist, Niklas, Andrew Vande Moere, Hans-Christian Jetter, Daniel Cernea, Harald Reiterer, and T. J. Jankun-Kelly. "Fluid interaction for information visualization." Information Visualization (2011): 1473871611413180.
• Heidi Lam. A framework of Interaction Costs in Information Visualization, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, November/December 2008 A Framework of Interaction Costs in Information Visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis 08) 14:6 (2008), 1149-1156.
• Ji Soo Yi, Youn ah Kang, John T. Stasko and Julie A. Jacko, "Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Role of Interaction in Information Visualization", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, (Paper presented at InfoVis '07), Vol. 13, No. 6, November/December 2007, pp. 1224-1231. [pdf] Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Role of Interaction in Information Visualization. Ji Soo Yi, Youn Ah Kang, John T. Stasko, and Julie A. Jacko. TVCG (Proc. InfoVis 07) 13:6 (2007), 1224-1231.
• 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.

Optional Readings

• Liu, Zhicheng, and John Stasko. "Mental models, visual reasoning and interaction in information visualization: A top-down perspective." IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics 16, no. 6 (2010): 999-1008.
• Card, Stuart K., and Jock Mackinlay. "The structure of the information visualization design space." In Information Visualization, 1997. Proceedings., IEEE Symposium on, pp. 92-99. IEEE, 1997.
• Shneiderman, B., 1996, September. The eyes have it: A task by data type taxonomy for information visualizations. In Visual Languages, 1996. Proceedings., IEEE Symposium on (pp. 336-343). IEEE.
• Pike, William A., John Stasko, Remco Chang, and Theresa A. O'connell. "The science of interaction." Information Visualization 8, no. 4 (2009): 263-274.
• Pirolli, Peter. Information foraging theory: Adaptive interaction with information. Oxford University Press, 2007.
• Lee, Bongshin, Petra Isenberg, Nathalie Henry Riche, and Sheelagh Carpendale. "Beyond mouse and keyboard: Expanding design considerations for information visualization interactions." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 18, no. 12 (2012): 2689-2698.

Week 8 (Nov 2, 2016)

Data

Lecture

Readings Assigned:

• Saul Greenberg. Working through task-centered design
• Chapter 3: Considering Work Contexts in Design. p.187-272. In Baecker, R., Grudin, J., Buxton, W., and Greenberg, S., eds (1995). Readings in Human Computer Interaction: Towards the Year 2000. Morgan-Kaufmann.

Optional Readings

Week 9 (Nov 9, 2016)

Perception

Lectures

Project Presentation #2

Readings Assigned:

• 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.
• Attention and Visual Memory in Visualization and Computer Graphics, Christopher G. Healey and James T. Enns, IEEE TVCG 18(7):1170-1188 2012.
• Dragicevic P., Chevalier F., Huot S. Running an HCI Experiment in Multiple Parallel Universes. alt.CHI. CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://hal.inria.fr/hal-00976507/file/multixp-hal.pdf
• A. Bezerianos and P. Isenberg, Perception of Visual Variables on Tiled Wall-Sized Displays for Information Visualization Applications, in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 2516-2525, Dec. 2012.

Optional Readings

• A Cognitive Perspective. Information visualization: perception for design (2nd edition if possible)

• A Field Guide to Digital Colour – Stone
• Rensink, Ronald A.; O'Regan, J. Kevin; Clark, James J. (1997), To see or not to see: the need for attention to perceive changes in scenes, Psychological Science 8 (5): 368-373.
• the rest of Colin Ware’s book

• 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.
• Perception in Vision web page with demos, Christopher Healey. (see also Attention and Visual Memory in Visualization and Computer Graphics, Christopher * Healey and James T. Enns, IEEE TVCG 18(7):1170-1188 2012.)
• On the Theory of Scales of Measurement. S. S. Stevens. Science 103(2684):677-680, 1946.
• Graph-Theoretic Scagnostics. Leland Wilkinson, Anushka Anand, and Robert Grossman. Proc InfoVis 05.
• On the Theory of Scales of Measurement. S. S. Stevens. Science 103(2684):677-680, 1946.
• Graph-Theoretic Scagnostics. Leland Wilkinson, Anushka Anand, and Robert Grossman. Proc InfoVis 05.
• Beyond Weber's Law: A Second Look at Ranking Visualizations of Correlation, Matthew Kay, Jeffrey Heer, IEEE TVCG

Week 10 (Nov 14, 2017)

Analytics / MetaVis

Readings Assigned

Week 11 (Nov 21, 2017)

Evaluation

Readings Assigned

• Lam, Heidi, Enrico Bertini, Petra Isenberg, Catherine Plaisant, and Sheelagh Carpendale. "Empirical studies in information visualization: Seven scenarios." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 18, no. 9 (2012): 1520-1536.
• Lars Grammel, Melanie Tory, Margaret-Anne Storey. (2010) How Information Visualization Novices Construct Visualizations. TVCG
• The challenge of information visualization evaluation Catherine Plaisant Proc. Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2004 [Archived version].
• Purvi Saraiya, Chris North, Vy Lam, Karen Duca, "An Insight-based Longitudinal Study of Visual Analytics", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 12(6): 1511-1522, November 2006. [pdf] http://infovis.cs.vt.edu/papers/TVCG06-longitudinal.pdf

Readings Optional:

• Tamara Munzner. (2009) A Nested Model for Visualization Design and Validation. TVCG
• S. Carpendale. (2008). Evaluating Information Visualizations. In A. Kerren, J.T. Stasko, J-D. Fekete, C. North (Eds.), Information Visualization – Human-Centered Issues and Perspectives. Vol. 4950 of LNCS State-of-the-Art Survey, pp. 19-45, Springer.
• The challenge of information visualization evaluation Catherine Plaisant Proc. Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2004 [Archived version] .
• Purvi Saraiya, Chris North, Vy Lam, Karen Duca, "An Insight-based Longitudinal Study of Visual Analytics", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 12(6): 1511-1522, November 2006. [pdf] http://infovis.cs.vt.edu/papers/TVCG06-longitudinal.pdf

Week 12 (Nov 28, 2017)

Design Thinking / Story Telling

Readings Assigned - Story Telling

• Segel, E. and Heer, J., 2010. Narrative visualization: Telling stories with data. IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, 16(6), pp.1139-1148.
• Hullman, J. and Diakopoulos, N., 2011. Visualization rhetoric: Framing effects in narrative visualization. IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, 17(12), pp.2231-2240.
• Heer, J., Viégas, F.B. and Wattenberg, M., 2007, April. Voyagers and voyeurs: supporting asynchronous collaborative information visualization. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (pp. 1029-1038). ACM.
• F. Viegas, M. Wattenberg, F. van Ham, J. Kriss, and M. McKeon. ManyEyes: a Site for Visualization at Internet Scale. IEEE TVCG, vol. 13, no. 6, 2007.

Optional Readings

• W. Willett, J. Heer, J. Hellerstein, and M. Agrawala, CommentSpace: Structured Support for Collaborative Visual Analysis, CHI ’11, 2011.
• F. Viegas and M. Wattenberg. Communication-Minded Visualization: A Call to Action, IBM Systems Journal, vol. 45, no. 4, 2006.
• N. Diakopoulos, F. Kivran-Swaine, and M. Naaman, Playable Data: Characterizing the Design Space of Game-y Infographics, CHI’11, 2011.
• S. Bateman, R. L. M, C. Gutwin, A. Genest, D. Mcdine, and C. Brooks. Useful Junk? The Effects of Visual Embellishment on Comprehension and Memorability of Charts, CHI’10, 2010.
• Lee, Bongshin, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, and Greg Smith. "SketchStory: Telling more engaging stories with data through freeform sketching." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 19, no. 12 (2013): 2416-2425.
• Viégas, Fernanda B., Danah Boyd, David H. Nguyen, Jeffrey Potter, and Judith Donath. "Digital artifacts for remembering and storytelling: Posthistory and social network fragments." In System Sciences, 2004. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on, pp. 10-pp. IEEE, 2004.

Week 13 (Dec. 5, 2017)

Final Project Presentations