cse510 Schedule Week 9

Week 9 Readings

Reviews are due by noon Tuesday, May 22. Responses are due before class on Wednesday.

We will use the WebAnn system again this week to submit reviews and responses. Instructions for installing WebAnn.

• Tan, D.S., Robertson, G.G. & Czerwinski, M. (2001). Exploring 3D Navigation: Combining Speed-Coupled Flying with Orbiting. In Proceedings of CHI 2000, Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Seattle, WA April 1-6, 2001), pp. 418-424.
• Robertson, G.G. et al. (2000). The Task Gallery: A 3D Windows Manager. In Proceedings of CHI '2000, Human Factors in Computing Systems, (The Hague, April 1-6, 2000), pp.494-501.
• Ramana Rao and Stuart Card, The Table Lens: Merging Graphical and Symbolic Representations in an Interactive Focus+Context Visualization for Tabular Information, CHI'94.

Optional papers (no review necessary)

• Focus+Context Techniques. Here are some additional focus+context papers, in addition to the Table Lens paper. Visualizing large trees using the hyperbolic browser, John Lamping and Ramana Rao, CHI'96. There is an earlier paper on hyperbolic trees that describes the inspiration for this technique: A Focus+Context Technique Based on Hyperbolic Geometry for Visualizing Large Hierarchies, John Lamping, Ramana Rao, and P. Pirolli, CHI 95. Perspective walls are described in The perspective wall: detail and context smoothly integrated by Jock Mackinlay, George Robertson, and Stuart Card, CHI '91. Check out the Star Tree navigation page (a commercial version of the hyperbolic tree) at Inxight.
• Data mountain: using spatial memory for document management by George Robertson, Mary Czerwinski, Kevin Larson, Daniel C. Robbins, David Thiel, and Maarten van Dantzich, UIST 98. There is also an MS Word version of the paper available via Mary Czerwinski's page.
• Snap-Together Visualization: Coordinating Multiple Views to Explore Information, Chris North and Ben Shneiderman, CS-TR-4020, UMIACS-TR-99-28, Human Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland, May 1999. Read or download here: html; pdf.
• Principles of Effective Visual Communication for Graphical User Interface Design, Aaron Marcus, in Readings in Human-Computer Interaction: Toward the Year 2000, R.M. Baecker, J. Grudin, W.A.S. Buxton, and S. Greenberg, eds.
• A Taxonomy of See-Through Tools, Eric Bier, Maureen Stone, Ken Fishkin, William Buxton, and Thomas Baudel, in Readings in Human-Computer Interaction: Toward the Year 2000, R.M. Baecker, J. Grudin, W.A.S. Buxton, and S. Greenberg, eds. Also check out the applet at the Magic Lens Interface Project website.

There are a wealth of other books and papers on this topic. A new collection of papers on information visualization, along with a useful overview of the field, is Stuart K. Card, Jock Mackinlay, and Ben Shneiderman, Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think. The books of Edward Tufte: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Envisioning Information, and Visual Explanations, are classics.

A.J. attended Tufte's seminar "Presenting Data and Information" and wrote up her notes . She also wrote up notes on his second book, Envisioning Information .