Information Visualization I (DA4094)

Professor

Dr. Andreas Kerren, Associate Professor

Time & Place

Compare here! In general, the lectures will take place in room D0073B (Curie), each Tuesday from 10:15 till 12:00.

Teaching Period

III (2009-01-20 till 2009-03-24)

Assessment

Assignments and oral examinations. Oral examinations will take place in room D2223 at 6/4.

Prerequisites

DA2042 Computer Graphics
DA1031 Programming and Data Structures
or similar documented experiences

Credits

7.5 ECTS

Topic

Basics in Information Visualization

Information Visualization (InfoVis) covers the development of tools for better understanding and analyses of abstract information using the human visual system. Abstract information can normally not be transferred into the physical world. This course gives you an overview of the most important techniques of this research area as well as applications. Covered topics are among others: interaction techniques, visulization techniques (e.g., level of detail, navigation, focus and context, focussing, 2D/2.5D/3D, ...), graph drawing (networks), visualization of hierarchical data.

The course Information Visualization II extends this course with visualization techniques and systems for special data sets.

Schedule

Preliminary Schedule:

#	Date	Topic	Slides
1	2009 01 20	Introduction and Motivation
2	2009 01 27	Perception Theory I
3	2009 02 03	Perception Theory II
4	2009 02 10	Basics in Information Visualization
5	2009 02 17	Interaction I (Dynamic Queries)
6	2009 02 24	Interaction II (Zoom&Pan, Overview&Detail)
7	2009 03 03	Focus&Context
8	2009 03 10	1D, 2D, 3D, and Multidimensional Data
9	2009 03 17	Hierarchies and Trees I
10	2009 03 24	Hierarchies and Trees II

Materials

Interestings URLs:

Prefuse Visualization Toolkit (Java)
InfoVis Toolkit (Java)
Improvise (Java)
Protovis (JavaScript)
Flare - Data Visualization for the Web (ActionScript)
Many Eyes Wikified (Wiki-Based Dashboards)
Titan Informatics Toolkit (expansion of VTK)

Assignments

Assignments consists of theoretical and practical exercices. They will be supervised by Ilir Jusufi.

Assignments:

Assignment 1 (Deadline: 2009-02-10)
Assignment 2 (Deadline: 2009-03-05):
Assignment 3 (Deadline: 2009-03-23)

Assignment 2

Each student should choose a research paper from the list below. Assignments consist of a brief presentation, of paper you have choosen to read. You should present overall idea of the paper briefly but your main focus of the presentation should be on interaction techniques presented on the paper.
Each presentation should take around 15 minutes + 3-5 minutes of discussion.

You should choose a list of three papers in descending order you are interested to present and email this list to Ilir Jusufi. We will distribute the papers with the help of your lists and using the "First come, first serve"-principle.

Papers:

#	Title	Autors	Reference	Choosen	Link
1	3D Generalization Lenses for Interactive Focus + Context Visualization of Virtual City Models	Matthias Trapp, Tassilo Glander, Henrik Buchholz, Jürgen Dölner	12th International Conference Information Visualisation	Jiang	cache
2	Balloon Focus: a Seamless Multi-Focus+Context Method for Treemaps	Ying Tu and Han-Wei Shen	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS, VOL. 14, NO. 6, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2008	Pan	cache
3	Browsing Zoomable Treemaps: Structure-Aware Multi-Scale Navigation Techniques	Renaud Blanch and Éric Lecolinet	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS, VOL. 13, NO. 6, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2007	Wang	cache
4	Exploration of Networks Using Overview+Detail with Constraint-based Cooperative Layout	Tim Dwyer, Kim Marriott, Falk Schreiber, Peter J. Stuckey, Michael Woodward and Michael Wybrow	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS, VOL. 14, NO. 6, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2008	Tao	cache
5	Interactive Tree Comparison for Co-located Collaborative Information Visualization	Petra Isenberg and Sheelagh Carpendale	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS, VOL. 13, NO. 6, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2007	Kajtazi	cache
6	Interactive Visual Analysis of the NSF Funding Information	Shixia Liu, Nan Cao, Hao Lv	IEEE Pacific Visualisation Symposium 2008 4 - 7 March, Kyoto, Japan	Mei	cache
7	Treecube+3D-ViSOM: Combinational Visualization Tool for Browsing 3D Multimedia Data	Seiji Okajima and Yoshihiro Okada	11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV'07)	Jusufi	cache
8	User Interaction with Scatterplots on Small Screens - A Comparative Evaluation of Geometric-Semantic Zoom and Fisheye Distortion	Thorsten Büring, Jens Gerken, Harald Reiterer	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS, VOL. 12, NO. 5, SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2006	Vogel	cache

Presentation Dates for Assignments:

Presentation of the selected paper: 2009-03-05 (14:15) room D1169.

Open Theses

We permanently offer interesting topics for Bachelor's and Master's Theses that are related to Information Visualization and Software Visualization.