Laboratory for Information Visualization and Evaluation

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URL: http://infovis.cs.vt.edu/

Contact: Chris North

 The LIVE lab studies the design, development, and evaluation of information visualizations.  Information visualizations are interactive visual representation of abstract data that enable people to effectively explore and understand large quantities of complex information.
2008
Fox E.A., Andrews* C., Fan W., Jiao* J., Kassahun A., Lu* S., Ma* Y., North C., Ramakrishnan N., Scarpa A., Friedman B.H., Sheetz S.D., Shoemaker D., Srinivasan* V., Yang* S., Boutwelle L., "A Digital Library for Recovery, Research, and Learning from April 16, 2007 at Virginia Tech", Traumatology, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 20 pages, April, 2008. Tagged BibTex xml
Shu* J., Watson L T., Ramakrishnan N., Kamke F A., North C., "Unification of problem solving environment implementation layers with XML-based specifications", Advances in Engineering Software, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 189-201, March, 2008. Tagged BibTex xml
Ball* R., North C., "The Effects of Peripheral Vision and Physical Navigation in Large Scale Visualization", Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2008, pp. 8 pages, June , 2008. Tagged BibTex xml
Kerren A., Stasko J., Fekete J., North C., "Information Visualization – Human-Centered Issues in Visual Representation, Interaction, and Evaluation", Springer-Verlag, 2008. Tagged BibTex xml
2007
Ball* R., North C., "Realizing embodied interaction for visual analytics through large displays", Computers & Graphics, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 380-400, June, 2007. Tagged BibTex xml
Sabri A., Ball R., Bhatia S., Fabian A., North C., "High-Resolution Gaming: Interfaces, Notifications and the User Experience", Interacting with Computers, Special Issue on HCI Issues in Computer Games, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 151-166, March, 2007. Tagged BibTex xml
Ball R., North C., Bowman D., "Move to Improve: Promoting Physical Navigation to Increase user Performance with Large Displays", ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), April, 2007. Tagged BibTex xml
Yost B., Haciahmetoglu H., North C., "Beyond Visual Acuity: The Perceptual Scalability of Information Visualizations for Large Displays", ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems (CHI),, April , 2007. Tagged BibTex xml
M. Chen, Hansen C., North C., Pang A., van Wijk J., "Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2007 and Information Visualization 2007", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 13, Nov/Dec, 2007. Tagged BibTex xml
Plaisant C., North C., "Reflections on Human-Computer Interaction: A special Issue in Honor of Ben Shneiderman’s 60th Birthday", Intl. Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. Preface pp. 195-204. (191 pages), Dec, 2007. Tagged BibTex xml
2006
North C., "Visualization Viewpoints: Toward Measuring Visualization Insight", IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 6-9, 2006. Tagged BibTex xml
Yost B., North C., "The Perceptual Scalability of Visualization", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 837-844, 2006. Tagged BibTex xml
Saraiya P., North C., Lam V., Duca K., "An Insight-based Longitudinal Study of Visual Analytics", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 1511-1522, November, 2006. Tagged BibTex xml
Fink G.A., Duggirala V., Correa R., North C., "Bridging the Host-Network Divide: Survey, Taxonomy, and Solution", USENIX Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA), December, 2006. Tagged BibTex xml
Ball R., DellaNoce M., Ni T., Quek F., North C., "Applying Embodied Interaction and Usability Engineering to Visualization on Large Displays", ACM British HCI - Workshop on Visualization & Interaction, September, 2006. Tagged BibTex xml
Shupp L., Ball R., Yost B., Booker J., North C., "Evaluation of Viewport Size and Curvature of Large, High-Resolution Display", Graphics Interface (GI), June, 2006. Tagged BibTex xml
Pyla P S., Howarth J R., Catanzaro C., North C., "Vizability: A Tool for Usability Engineering Process Improvement through the Visualization of Usability Problem Data", ACM Southeast Conference, March, 2006. Tagged BibTex xml
Berry B., Hobby L., McCrickard S.D., North C., Perez-Quinones M A., Making a Case for HCI: Exploring Benefits of Visualization for Case Studies, , Orlando FL, pp. 485-492, 2006. Tagged BibTex xml
North C., Haley M., Conference Compendium of IEEE Visualization 2006, IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2006, IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2006, , October, 2006. Tagged BibTex xml
2005
Fink G., Muessig P., North C., "Visual Correlation of Host Processes and Network Traffic", Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSEC 2005), pp. 11-19, 2005. Tagged BibTex xml
Ball R., North C., "Effects of Tiled High-Resolution Display on Basic Visualization and Navigation Tasks", Proc. extended abstracts of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2005), pp. 1196-1199, 2005. Tagged BibTex xml
Saraiya P., North C., Duca K., "An Insight-based Methodology for Evaluating Bioinformatics Visualizations", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 443-456, 2005. Tagged BibTex xml
North C., Rhyne T., Duca K., "Bioinformatics Visualization: Introduction to the Special Issue of Information Visualization", Information Visualization, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 147-148, 2005. Tagged BibTex xml
Ball R., Varghese M., Carstensen B., Cox D.E., Fierer C., Peterson M., North C., "Evaluating the Benefits of Tiled Displays for Navigating Maps", IASTED International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 66-71, 2005. Tagged BibTex xml
Saraiya P., North C., Duca K., "Visualization of Biological Pathways: Requirements Analysis, Systems Evaluation, and Research Agenda", Information Visualization, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 191-205, 2005. Tagged BibTex xml
Fink G., North C., "Root Polar Layout of Internet Address Data for Security Administration", Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSEC 2005), pp. 55-64, 2005. Tagged BibTex xml
Saraiya P., Lee P., North C., "Visualization of Graphs with Associated Timeseries Data", IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis 2005), pp. 225- 232, 2005. Tagged BibTex xml
North C., "Information Visualization", Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics, 3rd Edition, G. Salvendy (editor): New York: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 1222-1246, 2005. Tagged BibTex xml
Ball R., Varghese M., Carstensen B., Cox D.E., Fierer C., Peterson M., North C., "Evaluating the Benefits of Tiled Displays for Navigating Maps", IASTED International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, November, 2005. Tagged BibTex xml
Krishnamoorthy S., North C., "Learnability of Interactive Coordinated-View Visualizations", IEEE International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV 2005), Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Information Visualization, pp. 306-311, 2005. Tagged BibTex xml
Yost B., North C., "Single Complex Glyphs Versus Multiple Simple Glyphs", Proc. extended abstracts of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2005), pp. 1889 - 1892, April, 2005. Tagged BibTex xml
North C., Rhyne T., Duca K., "Bioinformatics Visualization: Introduction to the Special Issue of Information Visualization", Information Visualization, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 147-148, July , 2005. Tagged BibTex xml
2004
Songer A D., Hays B., North C., "Multidimensional Visualization of Project Control Data", Construction Innovation, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 173-190, September, 2004. Tagged BibTex xml
Ball R., Fink G.A., North C., "Home-Centric Visualization of Network Traffic for Security Administration", ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Workshop on Visualization and Data Mining for Computer Security 2004, (VizSEC 2004), 2004. Tagged BibTex xml
Saraiya P., North C., Duca K., "An Evaluation of Microarray Visualization Tools for Biological Insight", IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2004 (InfoVis 2004), 2004. Tagged BibTex xml
Kampanya N., Shen R., Kim S., North C., Fox E.A., "Citiviz: A Visual User Interface to the CITIDEL System", 8th European Conference on Digital Libraries, ECDL 2004, in Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 2004. Tagged BibTex xml
Raja D., Bowman D.A., Lucas J., North C., "Exploring the Benefits of Immersion in Abstract Information Visualization", 8th International Immersive Projection Technology Workshop, Iowa State, May, 2004. Tagged BibTex xml
Polys N., Bowman D., North C., Laubenbacher R., Duca K., "PathSim Visualizer: an Information-Rich Virtual Environment Framework for Systems Biology", Proceedings of ACM Web3D Symposium, pp. 8 pages, April, 2004. Tagged BibTex xml
Saraiya P., Shaffer C.A., McCrickard S.D., North C., "Effective features of algorithm visualizations", Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer Science Education, pp. 382 - 386, March , 2004. Tagged BibTex xml
Polys N., Moldenhauer M., Ray A., Dandekar C., North C., Bowman D., "Snap2Diverse: Coordinating Information Visualizations and Virtual Environments", Proceedings of SPIE Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA), pp. 12 pages, January, 2004. Tagged BibTex xml
Kampanya N., Shen R., Kim S., North C., Fox E.A., "A Visual User Interface to the CITIDEL System", Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: Proceedings of the 8th European Conference, ECDL, 2004, vol. 3232, Bath, UK, Springer-Verlag, pp. 122-133, September 2004. Tagged BibTex xml
2003
Ryu Y S., Yost B., Convertino G., Chen J., North C., "Exploring Cognitive Strategies for Integrating Multiple-View Visualizations", Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 47th Annual Meeting, October, 2003. Tagged BibTex xml
Li Q., North C., "Dynamic Query Sliders vs. Brushing Histograms", Proc. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2003, pp. 147-154, October , 2003. Tagged BibTex xml
Bowman D.A., North C., Chen J., Polys N., Pyla P., Yilmaz U., "Towards Usable and Effective Information-Rich Virtual Environments", ACM Virtual Reality Software and Technology 2003, September, 2003. Tagged BibTex xml
Convertino G., Chen J., Yost B., Ryu Y S., North C., "Exploring Context Switching and Cognition in Dual-View Coordinated Visualizations", IEEE Intl. Conf. on Coordinated & Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization (CMV), Intl. Conf. on Information Visualization (IV), July, 2003. Tagged BibTex xml
2002
North C., Conklin N., Idukuri K., Saini V., "Visualization Schemas and a Web-based Architecture for Custom Multiple-View Visualization of Multiple-Table Databases", Information Visualization, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 211-228, 2002. Tagged BibTex xml
Tessendorf D., Chewar C., Ndiwalana A., Pryor J., McCrickard S.D., North C., "An Ordering of Secondary Task Display Attributes", Extended Abstracts ACM CHI 2002, Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 600-601, 2002. Tagged BibTex xml
Colaso V., Kamal A., Saraiya P., North C., McCrickard S., Shaffer C.A., "Learning and Retention in Data Structures: A Comparison of Visualization, Text, and Combined Methods", Proc. ED-MEDIA 2002, pp. 2, 2002. Tagged BibTex xml
North C., Conklin N., Idukuri K., Saini V., "“Visualization Schemas and a Web-based Architecture for Custom Multiple-View Visualization of Multiple-Table Databases", Information Visualization, 1(3-4), vol. 1, no. 3-4, pp. 211-228, December , 2002. Tagged BibTex xml
North C., Conklin N., Saini V., "Visualization Schemas for Flexible Information Visualization", Proc. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2002, pp. 15-22, October, 2002. Tagged BibTex xml
Conklin N., Prabhakar S., North C., "Multiple Foci Drill-Down through Tuple and Attribute Aggregation Polyarchies in Tabular Data", Proc. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2002, pp. 131-134, October, 2002. Tagged BibTex xml
Jayaraman S., North C., "A Radial Focus+Context Visualization for Multi-Dimensional Functions", Proc. IEEE Visualization 2002, pp. 443-450, October , 2002. Tagged BibTex xml
Chewar C M., McCrickard S.D., Ndiwalana A., North C., Pryor J., Tessendorf D., "Secondary Task Display Attributes: Optimizing Visualizations for Cognitive Task Suitability and Interference Avoidance", Proc. IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization (VisSym 2002), Barcelona, Spain, pp. 165-171, May , 2002. Tagged BibTex xml
Somervell J., McCrickard S.D., North C., Shukla M., "An Evaluation of Information Visualization in Attention-Limited Environments", Proc. IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization (VisSym 2002), Barcelona, Spain, pp. 211-216, May , 2002. Tagged BibTex xml
2001
North C., Farooq U., Akhter D., "DataWear: Revealing Trends of Dynamic Data in Visualizations", LBHT Proc. IEEE Symposium on InfoVis 2001, pp. 8-11, October, 2001. Tagged BibTex xml
Beale M., McCrickard S., North C., Einstein M., Saraiya P., "Visualizing Communication Timelines Containing Sparsely Distributed Clusters", LBHT Proc. IEEE Symposium on InfoVis 2001, pp. 16-19, October, 2001. Tagged BibTex xml
Dang G., North C., Shneiderman B., "Dynamic Queries and Brushing on Choropleth Maps", Proc. IEEE Intl. Information Visualization 2001, pp. 757-764, 2001. Tagged BibTex xml
North C., "Multiple Views and Tight Coupling in Visualization: A Language, Taxonomy, and System", Proc. CSREA CISST 2001 Workshop of Fundamental Issues in Visualization, pp. 626-632, 2001. Tagged BibTex xml
2000
North C., Shneiderman B., "Snap-together visualization: a user interface for coordinating visualizations via relational schemata", Proc. of the working conf. on Adv. vis. interfaces, pp. 128–135, 2000. Tagged BibTex xml
North C., Shneiderman B., "Snap-Together Visualization: Can Users Construct and Operate Coordinated Views?", Intl. Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Academic Press, vol. 53, no. 5, pp. 715-739, November, 2000. Tagged BibTex xml
North C., Shneiderman B., "Snap-Together Visualization: A User Interface for Coordinating Visualizations via Relational Schemata", Proc. Advanced Visual Interfaces 2000, pp. 128-135, 2000. Tagged BibTex xml
1999
Fredrikson A., North C., Plaisant C., Shneiderman B., "Temporal, Geographical and Categorical Aggregations Viewed through Coordinated Displays: a Case Study with Highway Incident Data", Proc. ACM CIKM '99 Workshop on New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation, 1999. Tagged BibTex xml
1997
North C., Shneiderman B., Plaisant C., "Visual Information Seeking in Digital Image Libraries: The Visible Human Explorer", Information in Images, Glenn Becker (Editor): Thomson Technology Labs, 1997. Tagged BibTex xml
1996
North C., Shneiderman B., Plaisant C., "User Controlled Overviews of an Image Library: A Case Study of the Visible Human", Proc. ACM Digital Libraries '96 Conference, ACM Press, pp. 74-82, 1996. Tagged BibTex xml