Class Meetings

This schedule is tentative and subject to change

This Week

Week 1

Jan 21: Introduction to Information Visualization
Links: Uses of the TreeMap SmartMoney (Analysis)   Peets (Display/Communication)  American History Project
Assignment: Bring in a good use of visualization; explain why

Week 2

Jan 28: Visual Principles / Types of Data and Graphs
Reading: Chapters 1 & 4 of Colin Ware's Information Visualization: Perception for Design (handout)

Week 3

Feb 4: Visual Illusions; Misleading with Viz; Frameworks
Assignment: Bring blank paper and colored pens/pencils/crayons to class.
Assignment: Analyze a visualization
Reading:

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

Polaris: A System for Query, Analysis and Visualization of Multi-dimensional Relational Databases (extended paper), Stolte, Tang and Hanrahan, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 8(1), Jan. 2002

How to Display Data Badly (Actually called Visual Revelations: Graphical Tales of Fate and Deception on the video), Howard Wainer (video, about 1 hour)

(Optional) How Not to Lie with Visualization, Bernice E. Rogowitz and Lloyd A. Treinish, Computers In Physics 10(3) May/June 1996, pp 268-273

Week 4

Feb 11: Brushing, Linking, and Dynamic Querying; Animation
Reading: No advance readings. References for lecture:

Animation: From Cartoons to the User Interface, Chang & Unger, UIST '93

Animated Exploration of Graphs with Radial Layout, Ka-Ping Yee, Danyel Fisher, Rachna Dhamija, Marti Hearst, in IEEE Infovis Symposium, San Deigo, CA, October 2001. AVI movie

Fluid Documents Project

Data Mountain: Using Spatial Memory for Document Management, Robertson, Czerwinski, et al., UIST '98.

Evaluation of Animation Effects to Improve Indirect Manipulation, Thomas and Demczuk, First Australasian User Interface Conference, 2000.

Does Animation In User Interfaces Improve Decision Making?, C. Gonzales, CHI 96.

The (in)effectiveness of Animation in Instruction Morrison and Tversky, CHI '01 extended abstracts.

Animation: can it facilitate? Tversky, Morrison, and Betrancourt, IJHCS 57, 247-262, 2001.

Rethinking the Evaluation of Algorithm Animations as Learning Aids: An Observational Study, Kehoe, Colleen, Stasko, John and Taylor, Ashley, IJHCS 54(2), 2001.b

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

Visual information seeking: Tight coupling of dynamic query filters with starfield displays, Ahlberg and Shneiderman, CHI 94.

Week 5

Feb 18: Multidimensional Data Analysis; Problem Analysis with Visualization
Assignment: Exploratory Data Analysis (due March 3)
Reading:

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

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

(Optional) Visual, Interactive Data Mining with InfoZoom, M. Spenke and C. Beilken, PKDD '99, Prague, September 1999.

Multidimensional Detective, Al Inselberg, Proceedings of IEEE Infoviz '97.

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

(Optional): The Attribute Explorer, Tweedie, Spence, Williams, Boegal, CHI '94.

Week 6

Feb 25: Problem Solving; Zooming, Focus+Context, and Distortion-based Views
Reading:

Interactive Visualization of serial periodic data, J. Carlis, J. Konstan, UIST 98.

(Optional) Space-Scale Diagrams: Understanding Multiscale Interfaces, G. Furnas and B. Bederon, CHI '95

Speed-dependent Automatic Zooming for Browsing Large Documents, T. Igarashi, K. Hinckley, UIST 2000.

(Optional) Navigation patterns and Usability of Zoomable User Interfaces with and without an Overview, K. Hornbaek, B. Bederson, C. Plaisant ACM TOCHI, 9(4), 2002.

(Skim only) A Review and Taxonomy of Distortion-Oriented Presentation Techniques, Leung & Apperley, TOCHI 1(2), 1994

Fisheye Menus, B. Bederson, in the Proceedings of ACM UIST 2000, pp. 217-226. Demo .

PhotoMesa: A Zoomable Image Browser Using Quantum Treemaps and Bubblemaps, B. Bederson, UCM UIST 2001, (Optional article published at Sun.)

Graphical Multiscale Web Histories: A Study of PadPrints R. Hightower, L. Ring, J. Helfman, B. Bederson, J. Hollan, Proc. Hypertext '98, Pittsburg, PA, 1998.

Week 7

Mar 3: Empirical Evaluations (class ends at 4pm)
Assignment: Turn in data set analysis assignment.
Reading:

(Optional -- read only if you don't know this material) Formal Usability Testing lecture notes (ppt)

Excerpts from "Manual for Kit of Factor-referenced Cognitive Tests, 1976" (handout in class)

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

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

Aspect windows, 3-D visualizations, and indirect comparisons of information retrieval systems, Russell C. Swan, James Allan, SIGIR '98

(Read one of the following three)

Evaluating the effectiveness of visual user interfaces for information retrieval, Sutcliffe, Ennis, and Hu, International Journal of Human Computer Studies, Special Issue on Empirical evaluation of information visualizations, Vol. 53, No. 5, November 1, 2000

Empirical studies of information visualization: a meta-analysis Chaomei Chen, Yue Yu, International Journal of Human Computer Studies, Special Issue on Empirical evaluation of information visualizations, Vol. 53, No. 5, November 1, 2000

Visualization of Search Results: A Comparative Evaluation of Text 2D, and 3D Interfaces, Marc M. Sebrechts, John Cugini, Sharon J. Laskowski, Joanna Vasilakis, Michael S. Miller, Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 1999.

Week 8

Mar 10:Search and Document Space ; Flying/Driving/Mobile
Discussion Leaders: Li, Feinberg ; Chambers, Kim, Snydal, Wilhelm
Assignment: Project proposal (due March 31)
Reading:

Testing visual information retrieval methodologies case study: comparative analysis of textual, icon, graphical, and "spring" displays, Emile Morse, Michael Lewis,Kai A. Olsen, JASIST 53(1) 2002.

A comparison on the use of text summaries, plain thumbnails, and enhanced thumbnails for web search tasks. A. Woodruff, R. Rosenholtz, J. Morrison, A. Faulring, and P. Pirolli, JASIST 53(2), 172-185, 2002.

20th Century Aerospace Defense Displays, Darrel G. Hopper, Invited paper, Society for Information Displays (SID) Symposium Technical Digest, 1999.

Flying Complex Approaches Using a Head-Up Display: Effects of Visibility and Display Type, Snow, Reising and Liggett, Air Force Research Laboratory, 1999.

Air Traffic Control Screens: Choosing Colour Palettes for Layered Information, Reynolds, excerpted from Information Graphics: Innovative Solutions in Contemporary Design, 1998.

Week 9

Mar 17: Trees, Hierarchies, Networks ; Software
Discussion Leaders: Heer, Herrarte, Liao ; Maoz, Bhowmik, Wilkinson
Reading:

3D representations for software visualization, Marcus, eng, and Maletic, ACM symposium on Software Visualization, 2003.

Graph drawing aesthetics and the comprehension of UML class diagrams: an empirical study Purchase, McGill, Colpoys, and Carrington, Australian Symposium on Information Visualization, 9, 2001.

Graph Visualization and Navigation in Information Visualization: A Survey Ivan Herman, Guy Melanon, M. Scott Marshall

To Draw a Tree, talk by Pat Hanrahan of Stanford.

Week 10

Mar 31: Web Logs, Data Mining; Security
Assignment: Turn in project proposal
Discussion Leaders: Tan, King; Herrarte, Spring
Reading:

Case Study: E-commerce Clickstream Visualization, Brainerd & Becker, IEEE Infoviz, 2001.

Information Visualization and Visual Data Mining, Keim, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 8(1), 2002.

MieLog: A Highly Interactive Visual Log Browser Using Information Visualization and Statistical Analysis Tetsuji Takada and Hideki Koike in Proceedings of LISA '02: Sixteenth Systems Administration Conference, 2002.

Intrusion Detection: Visualizing Attacks in IDS Data (first 2 chapters) Alex Wood, SANS Rocky Mountain Institute, 2003

Deja Vu: A User Study Using Images for Authentication Rachna Dhamija and Adrian Perrig, 9th Usenix Security Symposium, 2000.

http://www.privacybird.com

(Optional) Informed Consent in the Mozilla Browser: Implementing Value-Sensitive Design Batya Friedman, Daniel C. Howe, Edward W. Felten, Proceedings of HICSS 2002.

(Optional) Siren: Context-aware Computing for Firefighting, Jiang, X., N.Y. Chen, J.I. Hong, K. Wang, L.A. Takayama, and J.A. Landay. In Proceedings of Pervasive 2004.

Week 11

Apr 7: Visualizing Conversations / Social Networks / Blogs
Discussion Leaders: Law, Savage, Todenhagen, Shamis, Pasztor
Assignment: Turn in revised project proposal (if necessary)
Reading:

Visualizing Social Networks Linton C. Freeman, Carnegie Mellon Journal of Social Structure, vol. 1, no. 1, 2000.

Digital Artifacts for Remembering and Storytelling: PostHistory and Social Network Fragments boyd, Donath, Nguyen, Potter, Viegas, Proceedings of the HICSS'04, Jan, 2004.

Week 12

Apr 14: Biodiversity and Biosciences
Discussion Leaders: Shapley, Viswanathan;
Guest Lecturer: Tom Ferrin, UCSF,
    Informatics and Visualization Tools for Structural Genomics Research (pdf)

Biodiversity (Shapley) (ppt)

    The Worldmap website specifically, Biodiversity Value and perhaps Rarity and Endemism Also, please reflect on the reading and your own knowledge of biology and come to class prepared to share a response to this question:

      The scope of biodiversity data includes all life everywhere on Earth through time. Biologists gather, represent, and categorize this data in various ways. Identify at least one informational dimension or aspect of the data that a visualization of biodiversity might attempt to show.

Genomic Cartography (Viswanathan) (ppt)

Week 13

Apr 21: Guest Lecture: Ramana Rao
Class Project Presentations (Heer, Wilkinson, Kim/Chambers/Tuan)
Policy Visualizations (Lawrence and Gual) (ppt)

Reading:

Political and Policy Visualizations

PDAs and Visualization


Week 14

Apr 28: Class Project Presentations (in this order)

Week 15

May 5: No class.