Schedule

Course Introduction

We will go over the syllabus, how to download papers, and go through introductions of everyone in the class. Time permitting, we will also watch some TED videos. There is nothing due this week.

1. Rosling, Hans, "The Best Stats You've Ever Seen", TED, February 2006, 19:50mm.  

2. McCandless, David, "The Beauty of Data Visualization", TEDGlobal, July 2010, 17:56mm.  

3. Lotto, Beau, "Optical Illusions Show How We See", TEDGlobal, July 2009, 16:30mm.  

4. Aiden, Erez Lieberman and Jean-Baptiste Michel, "What We Learned from 5 Million Books", TEDxBoston, July 2011, 14:08mm.  

5. Koblin, Aaron, "Visualizing Ourselves with Crowd-Sourced Data", TED, March 2011, 18:18mm.  

6. Christakis, Nicholas, "The Hidden Influence of Social Networks", TED, February 2010, 20:59mm.  

Reading Academic Research Papers

Assigned Reading: Use your student ID to determine which paper to read (take your ID mod 3 and add 1).

1. Keshav, S., "How to Read a Paper", ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 37, Issue 3, July 2007, Pages 83–84.

2. Fong, Philip W. L., "Reading a Computer Science Research Paper", ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 41, Issue 2, June 2009, Pages 138–140.

3. Laramee, Robert S., "How to Read a Visualization Research Paper: Extracting the Essentials", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Volume 31, Number 3, May/June 2011, Pages 78–82.

Introduction to Data Visualization

Assigned Reading: Everyone should read the following paper.

1. Heer, Jeffrey, Michael Bostock, and Vadim Ogievetsky, "A Tour Through the Visualization Zoo", Communications of the ACM, Volume 53, Issue 6, June 2010, Pages 59–67.

Preattentive Attributes

Assigned Reading: If you were born in January through June please read the FIRST paper. If you were born in July through December, please read the SECOND paper.

1. Treisman, Anne, "Preattentive Processing in Vision", Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, Volume 31, Issue 2, August 1985, Pages 156–177.  

2. Healey, Christopher G. and J.T. Enns, "Attention and Visual Memory in Visualization and Computer Graphics", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 18, Issue 7, July 2011, Pages 1170–1188.

Perception and Bar Charts

Assigned Reading: If you were born in January through June please read the FIRST paper. If you were born in July through December, please read the SECOND paper.

1. Heer, Jeffrey, and Michael Bostock, "Crowdsourcing Graphical Perception: Using Mechanical Turk to Assess Visualization Design", Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2010, Pages 203–212.

2. Talbot, Justin, Vidya Setlur, and Anushka Anand, "Four Experiments on the Perception of Bar Charts", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 20, Issue 12, December 2014, Pages 2152–2160.

Eye Tracking Studies

Assigned Reading: If you were born in January through April, please read the THIRD paper. If you were born in May through August, please read the FIRST paper. If you were born September through December, please read the SECOND paper.

1. Burch, Michael, Natalia Konevtsova, Julian Heinrich, Markus Hoferlin, and Daniel Weiskopf, "Evaluation of Traditional, Orthogonal, and Radial Tree Diagrams by an Eye Tracking Study", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 17, Issue 12, December 2011, Pages 2440–2448.

2. Kim, Sung-Hee, Zhihua Dong, Hanjun Xian, Benjavan Upatising, and Ji Soo Yi, "Does an Eye Tracker Tell the Truth about Visualizations?: Findings while Investigating Visualizations for Decision Making", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 18, Issue 12, December 2012, Pages 2421–2430.

3. Netzel, Rudolf, Michel Burch, and Daniel Weiskopf, "Comparative Eye Tracking Study on Node-Link Visualizations of Trajectories", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 20, Issue 12, December 2014, Pages 2221–2230.  

Graph Visualization

We will begin with a 20 minute presentation by Kaynat on "A User Study on Curved Edges in Graph Visualization" by Kai Xu, Chris Rooney, Peter Passmore, Dong-Han Ham, and Phong H. Nguyen published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 18, Issue 12, December 2012, pages 2449–2456. Students do not need to read this paper before class.

Assigned Reading: If you were born in January through June please read the FIRST paper. If you were born in July through December, please read the SECOND paper.

1. Selassie, David, Brandon Heller and Jeffrey Heer, "Divided Edge Bundling for Directional Network Data", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 17, Issue 12, December 2011, Pages 2354–2363.

2. Dwyer, Tim, Nathalie Henry Riche, Kim Marriott, Christopher Mears, "Edge Compression Techniques for Visualization of Dense Directed Graphs", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 19, Issue 12, December 2013, Pages 2596–2605.

Cybersecurity Visualization

Students are encouraged to attend the USF Symposium on Cyber Security on Wednesday, October 14 in Fromm Hall, Xavier Room. Registration begins at 5:00pm, and the panels are followed by a reception at 7:30pm.

We will begin class with a 20 minute presentation by Jake on "Visualizing Keyboard Pattern Passwords" by Dino Schweitzer, Jeff Boleng, Colin Hughes, and Louis Murphy published in Information Visualization, volume 10, issue 2, 2011, pages 127–133. Students do not need to read this paper before class.

Assigned Reading: If you were born in January through June please read the SECOND paper. If you were born in July through December, please read the FIRST paper.

1. Fowler, J. Joseph, Thienne Johnson, Paolo Simonetto, Michael Schneider, Carlos Acedo, Stephen Kobourov, and Loukas Lazos, "IMap: Visualizing Network Activity over Internet Maps", Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec), 2014, pages 80–87.  

2. Gove, Robert, Joshua Saxe, Sigfried Gold, Alex Long, and Giacomo Bergamo, "SEEM: A Scalable Visualization for Comparing Multiple Large Sets of Attributes for Malware Analysis", Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec), 2014, pages 72–79.  

Ambient Visualization and Urban Displays

We will begin with a 20 minute presentation by Thanawut on "Public Visualization Displays of Citizen Data: Design, Impact, and Implications" by Nina Valkanova, Sergi Jorda, and Andrew Vande Moere published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Volume 81, September 2015, pages 4–16. Students do not need to read this paper before class.

Assigned Reading: If your last name starts with A through G, please read the FIRST paper. If your last name starts with H through Z, please read the SECOND paper.

1. Block, Florian, Michael Horn, Brenda Caldwell Phillips, Judy Diamond, Margaret Evans, and Chia Shen, "The DeepTree Exhibit: Visualizing the Tree of Life to Facilitate Informal Learning", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 18, Issue 12, December 2012, Pages 2789–2798.

2. Ma, Joyce, Isaac Liao, Kwan-Liu Ma, and Jennifer Frazier, "Living Liquid: Design and Evaluation of an Exploratory Visualization Tool for Museum Visitors", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 18, Issue 12, December 2012, Pages 2799–2808.

Guest Speaker: Chris Boyce (Mocana)

USF alum Chris Boyce, now at Mocana, will be giving a guest lecture. All CS students are welcome to attend—attendance is mandatory for enrolled students.

There will be no readings due this week.

Human Computer Interaction

We will begin with a 20 minute presentation by Simon on "VeilMe: An Interactive Visualization Tool for Privacy Configuration of Using Personality Traits" by Yang Wang, Liang Gou, Anbang Xu, Michelle X. Zhou, Huahai Yang, and Hernan Badenes in the Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2015, pages 817–826. 

We will also have a 20 minute presentation by MD Naseem on "TastyBeats: Designing Palatable Representations of Physical Activity" by Rohit Ashok Khot, Jeewon Lee, Deepti Aggarwal, Larissa Hjorth, Florian "Floyd" Mueller in the Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2015, pages 2933–2942.

Students do not need to read these papers before class.

Assigned Reading: Everyone should read the following paper:

1. Jeremy Boy, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Francoise Detienne, "Storytelling in Information Visualizations: Does it Engage Users to Explore Data?", Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA), 2015, Pages 1449–1458.  

Color and Visualization

We will begin with a 20 minute presentation by Dejan on "Tree Colors: Color Schemes for Tree-Structured Data" by Martijn Tennekes and Edwin de Jonge published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 20, Issue 12, December 2014, pages 2072–2081. Students do not need to read this paper before class.

Assigned Reading: If your last name starts with A through G, please read the FIRST TWO papers. If your last name starts with H through Z, please read the THIRD paper only.

1. Borland, David and Russell M. Taylor II, "Rainbow Color Map (Still) Considered Harmful", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Volume 27, Issue 2, April 2007, Pages 14–17.

2. Samsel, Francesca, Mark Petersen, Terece Geld, Greg Abram, Joanne Wendelberger, and James Ahrens, "Colormaps that Improve Perception of High-Resolution Ocean Data", Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA), 2015, Pages 703–710.  

3. Harrower, Mark and Cynthia A. Brewer, "ColorBrewer.org: An Online Tool for Selecting Colour Schemes for Maps", The Cartographic Journal, Volume 40, Number 1, June 2003, Pages 27–37.

Animation and Interaction

We will begin with a 20 minute presentation by Maynak on "OnSet: A Visualization Technique for Large-Scale Binary Set Data" by Ramik Sadana, Timothy Major, Alistair Dove and John Stasko published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, volume 20, issue 12, December 2014, pages 1993–2002.

We will also have a 20 minute presentation by Amulya on "Animated Transitions in Statistical Data Graphics" by Jeffrey Heer and George Robertson published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 13, Issue 6, November 2007, pages 1240–1247.

Students do not need to read the presentation papers above before class.

Assigned Reading: Everyone should read the following paper:

1. Chevalier, Fanny, Pierre Dragicevic and Steven Franconeri, "The Not-so-Staggering Effect of Staggered Animated Transitions on Visual Tracking", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 20, Issue 12, December 2014, Pages 2241–2250.