Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory
University of Maryland
Catherine Plaisant www.cs.umd/hcil [email protected]
ACTIVITIES related to Social Network:
Information Visualization, Interaction, Evaluation
HCIL relevant strengths:Information Visualization, e.g. :
Treemap
TimeSearcher HCE (Hierarchical Clustering Explorer)
LifeLines
HCIL relevant strengths:Zoomable User Interfaces, e.g. :
International Children Digital Library
CounterPoint
Fisheye menus
SpaceTree
Datelens
SpaceTree
Current projects:Network Data Visualization
TreePlus Tree-centered solution Interaction + Visualization Focus on readability and stability Incremental navigation
NetLens Interactive coordinated overviews Dynamic filtering Bipartite graphs Scale to large datasets
Selected apps: bibliography, email archives, food webs
www.cs.umd/hcil/graphvis
GraphPlus
TreePlus
TreePlus
NetLens – e.g. Papers & People (ACM DL)
Papers on the leftAuthors on the right
Overviews provided for all attributes (here for number of papersper year)
Filtered to show only papers related to visualiza- tion, and the people who wrote those papers are shown on the right side, aggregated by institution type.
Also for studying Enron email, or legal cases and courts
InfoVis 2004 Contest The History of InfoVishttp://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/iv04contest/
10 years of Infovis papers – 18 submissions
Evaluation
Benchmark datasets Representative tasks Ground truth Metrics Repositories Methods for evaluation
Longitudinal case studies Insight based evaluation etc.
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