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Visualization
We believe that the future of user interfaces is in the direction of larger, information-abundant displays. With such designs, the worrisome flood of information can be turned into a productive river of knowledge
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Visualization of Network Spaces
Been wondering about the posibility of creating a realtime visualizer, like the dopler, of o.net, which can be used both to navigate to "active" groups, "big" groups, by topic, keyword, etc. this would be interesting to also see where, and at what times,
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Current Projects
Biodiversity Information Visualization (TaxonTree, DoubleTree, EcoLens, LepTree)
Interfaces for online biodiversity and ecological databases, featuring
incremental tree and graph browsing, in-context search results, coupled
views, and readable labels.
Bioinformatics Visualization
We developed information visualization tools for gene expression
data analysis, including mosaics, hierarchical clustering, parallel
coordinates, treemaps, and scattergrams.
Digital Docket
Our work aims to develop interfaces to help scholars in the
humanities and social sciences explore large text collections. We focus
on the use of a combination of content and meta data to visualize the
collection and support exploration.
Evaluation of Visual Analytics
To promote the evaluation of Visual Analytics tools we are
organizing competitions and workshops, developing metrics and new
evaluation methods.
Lifelines2
Exploring temporal patterns in categorical data. We focus on
Electronic Health Records and helping users find potential cause and
effects phenomena in databases of patient records
Network Visualization by Semantic Substrates
Network analysts may benefit from meaningful and stable layouts for
nodes in 1-5 defined regions. Then users control link visibility to
reduce clutter and see patterns of relationships. Our major application
has been citations among U.S. Supreme, Circuit and District Court cases.
PatternFinder
Searching Categorical Histories with PatternFinder:
Query Support for Electronic Health Records
Similan: Finding Similar Records from Temporal Categorical Data
Similan is a temporal categorical data analysis tool that helps
users find similar records from temporal categorical data. By
implementing similarity metric computation and adopting ideas from
rank-by-feature framework to rank records by similarity, Similan
provides an interactive interface to customize and visualize similarity
search results.
SocialAction
SocialAction is a social network visualization that provides analysts systematic and flexible techniques for exploration.
TreePlus: Visualizing Graphs as Trees
TreePlus is an interactive graph visualization system that
transforms graphs into trees and shows the missing graph structure with
visualization and interaction techniques.
Zoomable User Interfaces (Piccolo)
A Java & C# toolkit that supports the development of 2D
structured graphics programs in general, and Zoomable User Interfaces
(ZUIs) in particular.
Past Projects
BRQLayer
BRQLayer is a photo viewer that generates Bi-level Radial Quantum
(BRQ) layouts, which consist of a primary region surrounded by
secondary regions. The thumbnails resize and the regions shift around
dynamically as the layout is resized.
Business Network Monitoring Visualization
Several small projects relevant to Network Management (satellite network, business network).
Categorized Search Results
Users can view and organize web search results using meaningful and
stable hierarchies. This can help speed discovery, especially for
exploratory searchs.
CounterPoint: A Zooming Presentation Tool
A plugin for PowerPoint that enables zoomable and hierarchical presentations.
DateLens: A Scalable Calendar Interface
An interactive fisheye calendar for Pocket PC and Outlook on the
desktop that couples compact overviews, user control over the visible
time period, and integrated search.
Dynamaps and Census Data User Interfaces
Dynamap is an interface designed to facilitate easier viewing and dynamic query sliders for analysis of map-related census data.
Dynamic Query Interfaces for the EOSDIS Information System
How to help earth scientists find the data they need.
Elastic Windows for Rapid Multiple Window Management
Windows are organized in a hierarchical fashion on a space-filling
tiled layout to support multiple window operations which enable fast
task-switching and display reorganization.
EmailViz: Email Archive Visualization
A range of projects focused on visualizing archived email of
individuals, and the organizational and social spaces to which they
belong.
Excentric Labeling for Information Visualization
Excentric labeling dynamically labels a set of objects located around the cursor.
Fisheye Menus for Selection from Long Menus
A dynamic interactive menu that enables rapid selection from within large menus without scrolling.
Generalized Query Previews
Query previews form a simple and effective method to eliminate most
of the zero-hit and mega-hit queries and help users prune data
efficiently. Generalized query previews supply distribution information
on data attributes and give continuous feedback about the result size.
Govstat Project
Integration of data and interfaces to enhance human understanding of government statistics.
Hierarchical Clustering Explorer
The Hierarchical Clustering Explorer began by supporting
interactive exploration of clusters shown in dendrograms. It expanded
to included the powerful rank-by-feature framework to support
systematic discovery in high-dimensional multi-variate data.
Highway Traffic Management
Summary of several projects conducted in cooperation with the Center for Advanced Transportation Technology.
Interactive Information Visualization of a Million Items
New algorithms and interaction techniques to adapt popular
information visualization representations for displaying one million of
items.
Learning Historian
The Learning Historian record the history of user interaction with
a simulation and allows this history to be replayed for review, sent
with a message, used in a tutorial, or replayed as a series of variants
to facilitate comparisons and explorations.
Lifelines for Juvenile Justice (Original)
LifeLines provide a general visualization environment for personal histories.
LifeLines for Visualizing Patient Records
LifeLines is a zoomable one screen overview of a patient record.
PhotoCropr
Application that can be used to explore croppings of images using
either the "Rule of Thirds" or the "Golden Spiral" composition rules.
PhotoFinder
Sustained effort to develop personal photo library browsing tools,
including the patented drag-and-drop annotation tool with search
capabilities.
PhotoMesa Zoomable Image Browser
A tool to support management of images through annotation, search, and a zoomable user interface to access thousands of images.
Role Management
A proposed fourth generation user-centered design emphasizing users' roles, colleagues, and tasks rather than documents.
RouteLens
Helps users record the history of their common trips and review
summary information to find patterns and compare alternative routes.
Simulated Processes in a Learning Environment (SimPLE)
An application framework for creating simulation-based learning environments.
Snap-Together Visualization
Information visualizations with multiple coordinated views enable
users to rapidly explore complex data and discover relationships. SNAP
is a software tool for creating coordinated views.
Sonification of Maps
Color coded maps (choropleth maps) are often used to present
information such as unemployment rates for each state. An auditory
version (sonification) of such maps benefit blind users by providing an
interactive sonic map.
SpaceTree: Browsing Node Link Diagrams
An interactive tree browser that builds on the conventional node
link diagram approach by adding carefully designed layouts, animations,
and iconic subtree representations coupled with integrated search.
TimeSearcher for Time-Series Data
TimeSearcher 1 and 2 provide powerful search capabilities for
numerical (integer or real) time series with equally spaced time
points. Appropriate for gene expresssion, financial, weather, and many
other time-varying data series. Users specify queries with innovative
graphical timeboxes and pattern matching widgets
Treemap
Treemap 4 provides information visualization tools for hierarchical
data using a novel space filling approach. There are now dozens of
commercial and freeware versions of treempas, and our research tools
remain available for educational purposes.
Visualizing Legal Information (Dotfire, GRIDL)
Working on legal information gave us a chance to test emerging
ideas of visual displays for digital libraries. These working
demonstrations expanded on the Spotfire ideas of dynamic queries, and
added a grid interface to organize data by categorical attributes.
WebTOC: A Tool to Visualize and Quantify Web Sites
The table of contents of a website with indication of the amount and type of information behind each branch of the hierarchy.
Zoomable User Interfaces (Pad++)
Our original toolkit for Zoomable User Interfaces. Replaced with Piccolo.
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