(Readings due on date of indicated class. Schedule subject to change.)

Foundations

Monday, August 29 Introduction

No Readings

Wednesday, August 31 Visual Analysis

Assignments

Assignment 1: Visualization Critiques (due Wednesday, Sep 21)

Readings

Stuart K. Card, Jock D. Mackinlay, Ben Shneiderman. Information Visualization. Chapter 1 of Readings in Information Visualization. Morgan-Kaufmann, 1999. p. 1-34.

Stephen Few. Introduction. Chapter 1 of Show Me The Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten. p. 3-14.

Monday, September 5 Holiday - No Class!

Readings

Jacques Bertin. Post-Mortem of an Example. Chapter 1 of Graphics and Graphic Information Processing.

Stephen Few. Numbers Worth Knowing. Chapter 2 of Show Me The Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten. p. 15-37.

Optional Readings

William S. Cleveland, R. McGill. Graphical Perception and Graphical Methods for Analyzing Scientific Data. Science, 229:828-833. 1985.

Visual Psychology and Data Graphics

Wednesday, September 7 Visual Perception and Principles

Readings

Stephen Palmer. An Introduction to Vision Science. Chapter 1.1 of Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology. p. 4-15.

Stephen Few. Visual Perception and Quantitative Communication. Chapter 6 of Show Me The Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten. p. 88-112.

Optional Readings

Stephen Palmer. An Introduction to Vision Science. Chapters 1.2 & 1.3 of Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology. p. 15-44.

Fredo Durand. Gestalt and composition. In Course #13, SIGGRAPH 2002.

Monday, September 12 Designing Tables and Graphics to Enlighten (Guest Lecturer Stephen Few)

Assignments

Complete the Show Me the Numbers Pre-Test (not to be turned in)

Readings

Stephen Few. Chapters 3-5 of Show Me The Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten. p. 38-87.

Wednesday, September 14 Information Visualization for Discovery and Analysis (Guest Lecturer Stephen Few)

Assignments

Complete the Data Visualization for Discovery Pre-Test (not to be turned in)

Readings

Stephen Few. Chapters 7, 9-10 of Show Me The Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten. p. 113-126, 162-212.

Monday, September 19 Color / Design Exercise

Readings

Cynthia A. Brewer. Color Use Guidelines for Data Representation, Proceedings of the Section on Statistical Graphics, American Statistical Association, Alexandria VA. pp. 55-60. 1999. (Color Schemes Page)

Optional Readings

Colin Ware. Chapters 1 & 4 of Information Visualization: Perception for Design.

Interactive Information Visualization

Wednesday, September 21 Interaction: Dynamic Queries, Brushing, and Linking

Assignments

Assignment 1: Visualization Critiques Due

Assignment 2: Applying Visualization Tools (due Monday, Oct 10)

Readings

Stephen G. Eick, Graham J. Wills. High interaction graphics. European Journal of Operational Research, 81:445-459, 1995.

Ben Shneiderman. Dynamic queries, starfield displays, and the path to Spotfire. February 4, 1999

Bongshin Lee, Mary Czerwinski, George Robertson, and Benjamin B. Bederson. Understanding Research Trends in Conferences using PaperLens. CHI 2005 Extended Abstracts.

Optional Readings

Ben Shneiderman. The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations. Proc. 1996 IEEE Visual Languages.

Monday, September 26 Multidimensional Data Analysis

Readings

Chris Stolte, Diane Tang, Pat Hanrahan. Polaris: A System for Query, Analysis and Visualization of Multi-dimensional Relational Databases. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 8, No. 1, January 2002.

Stephen Few. Design Solutions for Multiple Variables. Chapter 11 of Show Me The Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten. p. 213-226.

Al Inselberg. Multidimensional Detective. IEEE InfoVis 1997.

An Empirical Comparison of Three Commercial Information Visualization Systems, Alfred Kobsa, in Infovis 2001, IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, San Diego, CA.

Optional Reading

VizCraft: A Problem-Solving Environment for Aircraft Configuration Design, Goe, Baker, Shaffer, Grossman, Mason, Watson, Haftka, IEEE Computing, pp. 56-66, 2001

Wednesday, September 28 Parallel Coordinates, Zoomable User Interfaces

Readings

Takeo Igarashi, Ken Hinckley. Speed-dependent Automatic Zooming for Browsing Large Documents. UIST 2000.

M. Baldonado, A. Woodruff, and A. Kuchinsky. Guidelines for Using Multiple Views in Information Visualization. Proc. Advanced Vis. Interfaces 2000, Palermo, Italy, May 2000, pp. 110-119.

Optional Readings

Ben B. Bederson, James D. Hollan. Pad++: A Zooming Graphical Interface for Exploring Alternative Interface Physics. UIST 1994.

Ben B. Bederson, Jon Meyer, Lance Good. Jazz: An Extensible Zoomable User Interface Toolkit in Java. UIST 2000.

Andy Cockburn, Joshua Savage, Andrew Wallace. Tuning and Testing Scrolling Interfaces that Automatically Zoom. ACM CHI 2005.

Monday, October 3 Focus + Context, Visual Distortion Techniques

Readings

George Furnas. Generalized Fisheye Views. ACM CHI 1986.

The Table Lens: Merging Graphical and Symbolic Representations in an Interactive Focus + Context Visualization for Tabular Information, R. Rao and S. K. Card, CHI '94. Demo

Ben B. Bederson, Mary P. Czerwinski, George R. Robertson. A Fisheye Calendar Interface for PDAs: Providing Overviews for Small Displays. University of Maryland, HCIL Tech Report #HCIL-2002-09

Optional Readings

Y. K. Leung, M. D. Apperley. A Review and Taxonomy of Distortion-Oriented Presentation Techniques. ACM Transactions of Computer-Human Interaction, 1(2), June 1994, p.126-169.

Jock D. Mackinlay, George G. Robertson, Stuart K. Card. The Perspective Wall: Detail and Context Smoothly Integrated. ACM CHI 1991.

M. S. T. Carpendale, Catherine Montagnese. A Framework for Unifying Presentation Space. UIST 2001.

Wednesday, October 5 Animation

Readings

Bay-Wei Chang, David Ungar. Animation: From Cartoons to the User Interface. UIST 1993.

Ping Yee, Danyel Fisher, Rachna Dhamija, and Marti Hearst, Animated Exploration of Graphs with Radial Layout, in IEEE Infovis Symposium, San Diego, 2001

Barbara Tversky, Julie Morrison, Mireille Betrancourt. Animation: Does It Facilitate?. International Journal of Human Computer Studies, v57, p247-262. 2002.

Monday, October 10 The 3rd Dimension

Readings

Heiser, Phan, Agawala, Tversky, Hanrahan, Identification and Validation of Cognitive Design Principles for Automated Generation of Assembly Instructions, AVI'04

Andy Cockburn, Bruce McKenzie. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Spatial Memory in 2D and 3D Physical and Virtual Environments. Proceedings of CHI 2002.

Optional Readings

Mary Czerwinski, Desney S. Tan, George G. Robertson. Women Take A Wider View. ACM CHI 2002.

Bob Leitheiser and David Munro, An Experimental Study of the Relationship Between Spatial Ability and the Learning of a Graphical User Interface In Proceedings of the Inaugural Americas Conference on Information Systems, 1995.

Wilmot Li, Maneesh Agrawala, David Salesin. Interactive image-based exploded view diagrams. In Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2004.