CS 5764: InfoVis -- Course Calendar

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Week of Tues
(lecture notes)
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(presentations)		 Thurs
(lecture notes)
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(presentations)		 Homework
(due Thurs)		 Project
(due Thurs)
1.
Aug24
 Introduction intell exercise
North, "Information Visualization"
Data Visualization: Modern Approaches
 1 - Critique 1 - Teams
2.
Aug31		 Design principles Multi-dimensional data
elizabeth - Dust&Magnet - Ji Soo Yi, Rachel Melton, John Stasko, and Julie Jacko, "Dust & Magnet: Multivariate Information Visualization using a Magnet Metaphor," Information Visualization, Vol. 4, No. 4, Winter 2005, pp. 239-256.		 2 - Intell Exercise
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Sept7		 Text
Alex - Wise, James et al, "Visualizing the Non-Visual: spatial analysis and interaction with information from text documents," Proceedings of the Information Visualization '95 Conference, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 1995, pp. 51-58.		 Graphs
Naveed - Frank van Ham, Bernice Rogowitz, "Perceptual Organization in User-Generated Graph Layouts," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 1333-1339, Nov./Dec. 2008.		 3 - MultiD tools
4.
Sept14		 Navigation
felipe - Baudisch et al., "Keeping things in context:  a comparative evaluation of focus+context screens, overviews, and zooming", Proc. ACM CHI '02.		 Overviews
eric - Pirolli, P., Card, S. K., and Van Der Wege, M. M. 2000. The effect of information scent on searching information: visualizations of large tree structures. In Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual interfaces.

5.
Sept21		 Robert - Stasko, Gorg, Liu, Jigsaw: Supporting Investigative Analysis through Interactive Visualization - Information Visualization 2008. page project initial presentations
2 - Design and presentation
6.
Sept28		 Trees
rahul - N. Henry, J.-D. Fekete, and Michael McGuffin, "NodeTrix: a Hybrid Visualization of Social Networks", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 13, No. 6, 2007, pp. 1302-1309		 High-Res Display
haeyong - Ball, R., North, C., and Bowman, D. "Move to Improve: Promoting Physical Navigation to Increase user Performance with Large Displays", ACM CHI, pp. 191-200, April 2007.		 4 - Graph drawing
7.
Oct5		 Sensemaking theory
Illuminating the Path, Chapter 2, pg 33-55, (stop at Collaborative Visual Analytics).

mi na - P. Pirolli and S. Card, "The sensemaking process and leverage points for analyst technology as identified through cognitive task analysis," in Proc of International Conference on Intelligence Analysis, 2005.

 Visual analytics methods
Heuer, Psychology of Intelligence Analysis, Chapter 8: Analysis of Competing Hypotheses.

peter - William Wright, David Schroh, Pascale Proulx, Alex Skaburskis, and Brian Cort, "The sandbox for analysis: concepts and evaluation", Proceedings of ACM CHI '06, pp. 801-810.

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Oct12		 class cancelled guest:  Nicholas Polys, VT Visionarium   3 - Initial implementation
9.
Oct19		 Perception & cognition
Heuer, Psychology of Intelligence Analysis, Chapters 9-10: Cognitive Biases.

anamary - M. Stone, "Choosing Colors for Data Visualization", 2006.

 homework showcase
(go to GigaPixel Display lab)		 5 - High-Res design
10.
Oct26		 Interaction
dipayan  -  Tweedie, Spence, Dawkes, “Externalizing Abstract Math Models” (Attribute Explorer), Proc. ACM CHI '96, 406-412. 		Embodied interaction
ashwin  - M. Wilson, "Six views of embodied cognition." Psychon Bull Rev, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 625-636, December 2002.
Liu, Nersessian, Stasko, "Distributed Cognition as a Theoretical Framework for Information Visualization", IEEE TVCG, Vol. 14, No. 6, Nov/Dec 2008, pp. 1173-1180.
 
 
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Nov2		 Evaluation
kevin  - Robertson et al., “Data Mountain: using spatial memory for document management”, Proc ACM UIST '98, 153-162.		 Evaluation
seungwon  - Saraiya, North, Duca, "An Insight-based Methodology for Evaluating Bioinformatics Visualizations", IEEE TVCG, 11(4): 443-456, (July 2005).
4 - Complete implementation
12.
Nov9

Collaborative visualization
promita - Heer, Viegas, Wattenburg, "Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Asynchronous Collaborative Information Visualization", CHI 2007.  (Many Eyes)
Waldner, Lex, Streit, Schmalstieg, "Design Considerations for Collaborative Information Workspaces in Multi-Display Environments", COVIS 2009.

 InfoVis Art
shambhavi - Viegas and Wattenberg, "Artistic data visualization: Beyond visual analytics," Proceedings of HCII 2007, July 2007, pp. 182-191.
http://www.bewitched.com/art.html 		 
13.
Nov16		 Project Contest:  6:30-9pm, VTKW2 room 1110 (2202 Kraft Dr);  take the CRC shuttle;
no meeting during regular class time		 Case Studies

jason - visualization for software engineering

   5 - Evaluation
Nov23 Thanksgiving Break
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Nov30

project final presentations
PEAS, PEAK
meet at VTKW2, Rm 1110

 class cancelled   6 - Final presentation
15.
Dec7		 project final presentations
BAR, Blasters
meet in usual classroom		 no class
   7 - Final paper
(Due Dec 10)
  no final exam