TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11
10:30-12:10
VAST: Fundamentals of Visual Analytics
Session Chair: Patricia Crossno

Knowledge Generation Model for Visual Analytics
Authors: Dominik Sacha, Andreas Stoffel, Florian Stoffel, Bum Chul Kwon, Geoffrey Ellis, Daniel Keim
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INFUSE: Interactive Feature Selection for Predictive Modelling of High Dimensional Data
Authors: Josua Krause, Adam Perer, Enrico Bertini
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Transforming Scagnostics to Reveal Hidden Features
Authors: Tuan Dang, Leland Wilkinson
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Towards Interactive, Intelligent, and Integrated Multimedia Analytics
Authors: Jan Zahálka, Marcel Worring

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11
10:30-12:10
INFOVIS: Techniques
Session Chair: Nathalie Henry Riche

UpSet: Visualization of Intersecting Sets
Authors: Alexander Lex, Nils Gehlenborg, Hendrik Strobelt, Romain Vuillemot, Hanspeter Pfister
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OnSet: A visualization technique for large-scale binary set data
Authors: Ramik Sadana, Timothy Major, Alistair Dove, John Stasko
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DimpVis: Exploring Time-varying Information Visualizations by Direct Manipulation
Authors: Brittany Kondo, Christopher Collins
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Axis Calibration for Improving Data Attribute Estimation in Star Coordinates Plots
Authors: Manuel Rubio-Sánchez, Alberto Sanchez
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Domino: Extracting, Comparing, and Manipulating Subsets across Multiple Tabular Datasets
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Authors: Samuel Gratzl, Nils Gehlenborg, Alexander Lex, Hanspeter Pfister, Marc Streit
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11
10:30-12:10
SCIVIS: Volume Visualization Systems
Session Chair: Chris Johnson

Predicate-based Focus-and-Context Visualization for 3D Ultrasound
Authors: Christian Schulte zu Berge, Maximilian Baust, Nassir Navab, Ankur Kapoor
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ViSlang: A System for Interpreted Domain-Specific Languages for Scientific Visualization
Authors: Peter Rautek, Stefan Bruckner, Eduard Gröller, Markus Hadwiger
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Interactive Progressive Visualization with Space-Time Error Control
Authors: Steffen Frey, Filip Sadlo, Kwan-Liu Ma, Thomas Ertl
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Vivaldi: A Domain-Specific Language for Volume Processing and Visualization on Distributed Heterogeneous Systems
Authors: HyungSuk Choi, Woohyuk Choi, Tran Minh Quan, David Hildebrand, Hanspeter Pfister, Won-Ki Jeong
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11
14:00-15:40
VAST: Empowering Users in Visual Analytics
Session Chair: Jonathan Roberts

Supporting Communication and Coordination in Collaborative Sensemaking
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Authors: Narges Mahyar, Melanie Tory
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Opening the Black Box: Strategies for Increased User Involvement in Existing Algorithm Implementations
Authors: Thomas Mühlbacher, Harald Piringer, Samuel Gratzl, Michael Sedlmair, Marc Streit
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Progressive Visual Analytics: User-Driven Visual Exploration of In-Progress Analytics
Authors: Charles D. Stolper, Adam Perer, David Gotz
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Finding Waldo: Learning about Users from their Interactions
Authors: Eli T. Brown, Alvitta Ottley, Jieqiong Zhao, Quan Lin, Richard Souvenir, Alex Endert, Remco Chang
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Interactive Visual Analysis of Image-Centric Cohort Study Data
Authors: Paul Klemm, Steffen Oeltze, Kai Lawonn, Kathrin Hegenscheid, Henry Völzke, Bernhard Preim
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11
14:00-15:40
INFOVIS: Maps & Trees
Session Chair: Remco Chang

Attribute Signatures: Dynamic Visual Summaries for Analyzing Multivariate Geographical Data
Authors: Cagatay Turkay, Aidan Slingsby, Helwig Hauser, Jo Wood, Jason Dykes
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Origin-Destination Flow Data Smoothing and Mapping
Authors: Diansheng Guo, Xi Zhu
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Stenomaps: Shorthand for Shapes
Authors: Arthur van Goethem, Andreas Reimer, Bettina Speckmann, Jo Wood
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Nmap: A Novel Neighborhood Preservation Space-filling Algorithm
Authors: Felipe S. L. G. Duarte, Fabio Sikansi, Francisco M. Fatore, Samuel G. Fadel, Fernando V. Paulovich
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Tree Colors: Color Schemes for Tree-Structured Data
Authors: Martijn Tennekes, Edwin de Jonge
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11
14:00-15:40
SCIVIS: Scalar Analysis and Volume Rendering
Session Chair: Hammish Carr

Sparse PDF Volumes for Consistent Multi-Resolution Volume Rendering
Authors: Ronell Sicat, Jens Krueger, Torsten Möller, Markus Hadwiger
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Multiscale Symmetry Detection in Scalar Fields by Clustering Contours
Authors: Dilip Thomas, Vijay Natarajan
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Low-Pass Filtered Volumetric Shadows
Authors: Marco Ament, Filip Sadlo, Carsten Dachsbacher, Daniel Weiskopf
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Boundary Aware Reconstruction of Scalar Fields
Authors: Stefan Lindholm, Daniel Jönsson, Charles Hansen, Anders Ynnerman
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Direct Isosurface Ray Casting of NURBS-based Isogeometric Analysis
Authors: Andre Schollmeyer, Bernd Froehlich
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11
16:15-17:55
VAST: Clustering and Classification
Session Chair: Jimmy Johansson

Visual Abstraction and Exploration of Multi-class Scatterplots
Authors: Haidong Chen, Wei Chen, Honghui Mei, Zhiqi Liu, Kun Zhou, Weifeng Chen, Wentao Gu, Kwan-Liu Ma
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Cupid: Cluster-based Exploration of Geometry Generators with Parallel Coordinates and Radial Trees
Authors: Michael Beham, Wolfgang Herzner, Eduard Gröller, Johannes Kehrer
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Visual Methods for Analyzing Probabilistic Classification Data
Authors: Bilal Alsallakh, Allan Hanbury, Helwig Hauser, Silvia Miksch, Andreas Rauber
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A Five-Level Design Framework for Bicluster Visualizations
Authors: Maoyuan Sun, Chris North, Naren Ramakrishnan
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VarifocalReader -- In-Depth Visual Analysis of Large Text Documents
Authors: Steffen Koch, Markus John, Michael Wörner, Andreas Müller, Thomas Ertl
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11
16:15-17:55
INFOVIS: Networks
Session Chair: Tim Dwyer

Multivariate Network Exploration and Presentation: From Detail to Overview via Selections and Aggregations
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Authors: Stef van den Elzen, Jarke J. van Wijk
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GLO-STIX: Graph-Level Operations for Specifying Techniques and Interactive eXploration
Authors: Charles D. Stolper, Minsuk Kahng, Zhiyuan Lin, Florian Foerster, Aakash Goel, John Stasko, Duen Horng Chau
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A Modular Degree-of-Interest Specification for the Visual Analysis of Large Dynamic Networks
Authors: James Abello, Steffen Hadlak, Heidrun Schumann, and Hans-Jörg Schulz
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GraphDiaries: Animated Transitions and Temporal Navigation for Dynamic Networks
Authors: Benjamin Bach, Emmanuel Pietriga, Jean-Daniel Fekete
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Visual Adjacency Lists for Dynamic Graphs
Authors: Marcel Hlawatsch, Michael Burch, Daniel Weiskopf
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How to Display Group Information on Node-Link Diagrams: an Evaluation
Authors: Radu Jianu, Adrian Rusu, Yifan Hu, Douglas Taggart
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11
16:15-17:55
SCIVIS: Perception and Evaluation
Session Chair: Daniel Keefe

An Evaluation of Depth Enhancing Perceptual Cues for Vascular Volume Visualization in Neurosurgery
Authors: Marta Kersten-Oertel, Sean J. Chen, D. Louis Collins
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Perceptually Uniform Motion Space
Authors: Asmund Birkeland, Cagatay Turkay, and Ivan Viola
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A Metric for the Evaluation of Dense Vector Field Visualizations
Authors: Victor Matvienko and Jens Kruger
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Attractive Flicker: Guiding Attention in Dynamic Narrative Visualizations
Authors: Manuela Waldner, mathieu le muzic, Matthias Bernhard, Werner Purgathofer, Ivan Viola
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Design and Evaluation of Interactive Proofreading Tools for Connectomics
Authors: Daniel Haehn, Seymour Knowles-Barley, Mike Roberts, Johanna Beyer, Narayanan Kasthuri, Jeff W. Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12
08:30-10:10
VAST: Visual Analytics in Societal Applications
Session Chair: Daniel Keim

LoyalTracker: Visualizing Loyalty Dynamics in Search Engines
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Authors: Conglei Shi, Yingcai Wu, Shixia Liu, Hong Zhou, Huamin Qu
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VAET: A Visual Analytics Approach for E-transactions Time-series
Authors: Cong Xie, Wei Chen, Xinxin Huang, Yueqi Hu, Scott Barlowe, Jing Yang
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EvoRiver: Visual Analysis of Topic Coopetition on Social Media
Authors: Guodao Sun, Yingcai Wu, Shixia Liu, Tai-Quan Peng, Jonathan Zhu, Ronghua Liang
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OpinionFlow: Visual Analysis of Opinion Diffusion on Social Media
Authors: Yingcai Wu, Shixia Liu, Kai Yan, Mengchen Liu, Fangzhao Wu
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#FluxFlow: Visual Analysis of Anomalous Information Spreading on Social Media
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Authors: Jian Zhao, Nan Cao, Zhen Wen, Yale Song, Yu-Ru Lin, Christopher Collins
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12
08:30-10:10
INFOVIS: Interaction & Authoring
Session Chair: Bongshin Lee

Revisiting Bertin matrices: New Interactions for Crafting Tabular Visualizations
Authors: Charles Perin, Pierre Dragicevic, Jean-Daniel Fekete
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iVisDesigner: Expressive Interactive Design of Information Visualizations
Authors: Donghao Ren, Tobias Höllerer, Xiaoru Yuan
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Constructing Visual Representations: Investigating the Use of Tangible Tokens
Authors: Samuel Huron, Yvonne Jansen, Sheelagh Carpendale
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PanoramicData: Data Analysis through Pen & Touch
Authors: Emanuel Zgraggen, Robert Zeleznik, Steven Drucker
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Munin: A Peer-to-Peer Middleware for Ubiquitous Analytics and Visualization Spaces
Authors: Sriram Karthik Badam, Eli Raymond Fisher, and Niklas Elmqvist
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12
08:30-10:10
SCIVIS: Biomedical and Molecular Visualization
Session Chair: Johanna Beyer

Characterizing Molecular Interactions in Chemical Systems
Authors: David Guenther, Roberto Alvarez Boto, Julia Contreras Garcia, Jean-Philip Piquemal, Julien Tierny
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Ligand Excluded Surface : A New Type of Molecular Surface
Authors: Norbert Lindow, Daniel Baum, Hans-Christian Hege
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ADR - Anatomy-Driven Reformation
Authors: Jan Kretschmer, Grzegorz Soza, Christian Tietjen, Michael Suehling, Bernhard Preim, Marc Stamminger
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Combined Visualization of Wall Thickness and Wall Shear Stress for the Evaluation of Aneurysms
Authors: Sylvia Glasser, Kai Lawonn, Thomas Hoffmann, Martin Skalej, Bernhard Preim
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Visualization of Brain Microstructure through Spherical Harmonics Illumination of High Fidelity Spatio-Angular Fields
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Authors: Sujal Bista, Jiachen Zhou, Rao Gullapalli, Amitabh Varshney
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12
10:30-12:10
VAST: Visual Analytics of Spatiotemporal Activities
Session Chair: Alex Endert

Feature Driven Visual Analytics of Soccer Data
Authors: Halldór Janetzko, Dominik Sacha, Manuel Stein, Tobias Schreck, Oliver Deussen, Daniel Keim
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Baseball4D: A Tool for Baseball Game Reconstruction & Visualization
Authors: Carlos Dietrich, David Koop, Huy Vo, Claudio Silva
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A System for Visual Analysis of Radio Signal Data
Authors: Tarik Crnovrsanin, Chris Muelder, Kwan-Liu Ma
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Feedback-Driven Interactive Exploration of Large Multidimensional Data Supported by Visual Classifier
Authors: Michael Behrisch, Fatih Korkmaz, Lin Shao, Tobias Schreck
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An Integrated Visual Analysis System for Fusing MR Spectroscopy and Multi-Modal Radiology Imaging
Authors: Miguel Nunes, Benjamin Rowland, Matthias Schlachter, Soleakhena Ken, Krešimir Matković, Anne Laprie, Katja Bühler

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12
10:30-12:10
INFOVIS: Exploratory Data Analysis
Session Chair: Adam Perer

The Effects of Interactive Latency on Exploratory Visual Analysis
Authors: Zhicheng Liu, Jeffrey Heer
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Visualizing Statistical Mix Effects and Simpson's Paradox
Authors: Zan Armstrong, Martin Wattenberg
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Error Bars Considered Harmful: Exploring Alternate Encodings for Mean and Error
Authors: Michael Correll, Michael Gleicher
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Four Experiments on the Perception of Bar Charts
Authors: Justin Talbot, Vidya Setlur, Anushka Anand
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Visual Parameter Space Analysis: A Conceptual Framework
Authors: Michael Sedlmair, Christoph Heinzl, Harald Piringer, Stefan Bruckner, Torsten Möller
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12
10:30-12:10
SCIVIS: Feature Extraction and Flows
Session Chair: Chaoli Wang

A Robust Parity Test for Extracting Parallel Vectors in 3D
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Authors: Tao Ju, Minxin Cheng, Xu Wang, Ye Duan
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Exploring Flow Fields Using Space-filling Analysis of Streamlines
Authors: Abon Chaudhuri, Teng-Yok Lee, Han-Wei Shen, Rephael Wenger
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Vortex Cores of Inertial Particles
Authors: Tobias Günther, Holger Theisel
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The Natural Helmholtz-Hodge Decomposition For Open-Boundary Flow Analysis
Authors: Harsh Bhatia, Valerio Pascucci, and Peer-Timo Bremer
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FLDA: Latent Dirichlet Allocation Based Unsteady Flow Analysis
Authors: Fan Hong, Chufan Lai, Hanqi Guo, Xiaoru Yuan, Enya Shen, Sikun Li
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12
14:00-15:40
INFOVIS: Design Process & Persuasion
Session Chair: Michael Sedlmair

Moving beyond sequential design: Reflections on a rich multi-channel approach to data visualization
Authors: Jo Wood, Roger Beecham, Jason Dykes
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An Algebraic Process for Visualization Design
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Authors: Gordon Kindlmann, Carlos Scheidegger
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Design Activity Framework for Visualization Design
Authors: Sean McKenna, Dominika Mazur, James Agutter, Miriah Meyer
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Activity Sculptures: Exploring the Impact of Physical Visualizations on Running Activity
Authors: Simon Stusak, Aurélien Tabard, Franziska Sauka, Rohit Ashok Khot, Andreas Butz
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The Persuasive Power of Data Visualization
Authors: Anshul Vikram Pandey, Anjali Manivannan, Oded Nov, Margaret Satterthwaite, Enrico Bertini
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12
14:00-15:40
SCIVIS: Flowline Tracing, Clustering, and Visualization
Session Chair: Tino Weinkauf

Advection-Based Sparse Data Management for Visualizing Unsteady Flow
Authors: Hanqi Guo, Jiang Zhang, Richen Liu, Lu Liu, Xiaoru Yuan, Jian Huang, Xiangfei Meng, Jingshan Pan
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Trajectory-based Flow Feature Tracking in Joint Particle/Volume Datasets
Authors: Franz Sauer, Hongfeng Yu, Kwan-Liu Ma
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Interpolation-Based Pathline Tracing in Particle-Based Flow Visualization
Authors: Jennifer Chandler, Harald Obermaier, Ken Joy
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Blood Flow Clustering and Applications in Virtual Stenting of Intracranial Aneurysms
Authors: Steffen Oeltze, Dirk J. Lehmann, Alexander Kuhn, Gábor Janiga, Holger Theisel, Bernhard Preim
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A Deformation Framework for Focus+Context Flow Visualization
Jun Tao, Chaoli Wang, Ching-Kuang Shene, Seung Hyun Kim
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12
16:15-17:55
VAST: Visual Analysis of Relationships
Session Chair: Margit Pohl

An Insight- and Task-based Methodology for Evaluating Spatiotemporal Visual Analytics
Authors: Steven Gomez, Hua Guo, Caroline Ziemkiewicz, David H. Laidlaw
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Weaving a Carpet from Log Entries: a Network Security Visualization Built with Co-Creation
Authors: Johannes Landstorfer, Ivo Herrmann, Jan-Erik Stange, Marian Dörk, Reto Wettach
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Analyzing High-dimensional Multivariate Network Links with Integrated Anomaly Detection, Highlighting and Exploration
Authors: Sungahn Ko, Shehzad Afzal, Simon Walton, Yang Yang, Junghoon Chae, Abish Malik, Yun Jang, Min Chen, David Ebert
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Visual Analysis of Patterns in Multiple Amino Acid Mutation Graphs
Authors: Olav Lenz, Frank Keul, Sebastian Bremm, Kay Hamacher, Tatiana von Landesberger
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A Visual Reasoning Approach for Data-driven Transport Assessment on Urban Roads
Authors: Fei Wang, Wei Chen, Feiran Wu, Ye Zhao, Han Hong, Tianyu Gu, Long Wang, Ronghua Liang, Hujun Bao
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13
08:30-10:10
VAST: Searching and Tracking
Session Chair: William Pike

DecisionFlow: Visual Analytics for High-Dimensional Temporal Event Sequence Data
Authors: David Gotz, Harry Stavropoulos
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Footprints: A Visual Search Tool that Supports Discovery and Coverage Tracking
Authors: Ellen Isaacs, Kelly Domico, Shane Ahern, Eugene Bart, Mudita Singhal
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Visual Analytics for Complex Engineering Systems: Hybrid Visual Steering of Simulation Ensembles
Authors: Krešimir Matković, Denis Gracanin, Rainer Splechtna, Mario Jelovic, Benedikt Stehno, Helwig Hauser, Werner Purgathofer
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Visual Exploration of Sparse Traffic Trajectory Data
Authors: Zuchao Wang, Tangzhi Ye, Min Lu, Xiaoru Yuan, Huamin Qu, Jacky Yuan, Qianliang Wu
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DIA2: Web-based Cyberinfrastructure for Visual Analysis of Funding Portfolio
Authors: Krishna Madhavan, Niklas Elmqvist, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Xin Chen, Yuet Ling Wong, Hanjun Xian, Zhihua Dong, Aditya Johri
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13
08:30-10:10
INFOVIS: Evaluation
Session Chair: Heidi Lam

Comparative Eye Tracking Study on Node-Link Visualizations of Trajectories
Authors: Rudolf Netzel, Michael Burch, Daniel Weiskopf
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Node, Node-Link, and Node-Link-Group Diagrams: An Evaluation
Authors: Bahador Saket, Paolo Simonetto, Stephen Kobourov, Katy Borner
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The Not-so-Staggering Effect of Staggered Animated Transitions on Visual Tracking
Authors: Fanny Chevalier, Pierre Dragicevic, Steven Franconeri
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The Influence of Contour on Similarity Perception of Star Glyphs
Authors: Johannes Fuchs, Petra Isenberg, Anastasia Bezerianos, Fabian Fischer, Enrico Bertini
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Order of Magnitude Markers: An Empirical Study on Large Magnitude Number Detection
Authors: Rita Borgo, Joel Dearden, Mark W. Jones
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13
08:30-10:10
SCIVIS: Maps and Topology
Session Chair: Shigeo Takahashi

Visualizing 2-dimensional manifolds with curve handles in 4D
Authors: Hui Zhang, Jianguang Weng, Guangchen Ruan
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Fast and Memory-Efficient Topological Denoising of 2D and 3D Scalar Fields
Authors: David Guenther, Alec Jacobson, Jan Reininghaus, Hans-Peter Seidel, Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Tino Weinkauf
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Conforming Morse-Smale Complexes
Authors: Attila Gyulassy, David Guenther, Joshua A. Levine, Julien Tierny, Valerio Pascucci
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Escape Maps
Authors: Gustavo Mello Machado, Filip Sadlo, Thomas Müller, Thomas Ertl
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Visualization of Regular Maps: The Chase Continues
Authors: Jarke J. van Wijk
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13
10:30-12:10
VAST: Visual Analytics in Infrastructural and Environmental Applications
Session Chair: Laura McNamara

Visualizing Mobility of Public Transportation System
Authors: Wei Zeng, Chi-Wing Fu, Stefan Müller Arisona, Alexander Erath, Huamin Qu
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Visual Analysis of Public Utility Service Problems in a Metropolis
Authors: Jiawan Zhang, Yanli E, Jing Ma, Yahui Zhao, Binghan Xu, Liting Sun, Jinyan Chen, Xiaoru Yuan
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VASA: Interactive Computational Steering of Large Asynchronous Simulation Pipelines for Societal Infrastructure
Authors: Sungahn Ko, Jieqiong Zhao, Jing Xia, Xiaoyu Wang, Greg Abram, Niklas Elmqvist, Shaun Kennedy, Kelly Gaither, William Tolone, William Ribarsky, David Ebert
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Proactive Spatiotemporal Resource Allocation and Predictive Visual Analytics for Community Policing and Law Enforcement
Authors: Abish Malik, Ross Maciejewski, Sherry Towers, Sean McCullough, David Ebert
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Run Watchers: Automatic Simulation-Based Decision Support in Flood Management
Authors: Artem Konev, Jürgen Waser, Bernhard Sadransky, Daniel Cornel, Rui A. P. Perdigão, Zsolt Horváth, Eduard Gröller
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13
10:30-12:10
INFOVIS: Applications
Session Chair: Miriah Meyer

LiveGantt: Interactively Visualizing a Large Manufacturing Schedule
Authors: Jaemin Jo, Jaeseok Huh, Jonghun Park, Bohyoung Kim, Jinwook Seo
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TenniVis: Visualization for Tennis Match Analysis
Authors: Tom Polk, Jing Yang, Yueqi Hu, Ye Zhao
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Combing the Communication Hairball: Visualizing Large-Scale Parallel Execution Traces using Logical Time
Authors: Katherine Isaacs, Peer-Timo Bremer, Ilir Jusufi, Todd Gamblin, Abhinav Bhatele, Martin Schulz, Bernd Hamann
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MovExp: A Versatile Visualization Tool for Human-Computer Interaction Studies with 3D Performance and Biomechanical Data
Authors: Gregorio Palmas, Myroslav Bachynskyi, Antti Oulasvirta, Hans-Peter Seidel, Tino Weinkauf
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NeuroLines: A Subway Map Metaphor for Visualizing Nanoscale Neuronal Connectivity
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Authors: Ali Al-Awami, Johanna Beyer, Hendrik Strobelt, Narayanan Kasthuri, Jeff W. Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister, Markus Hadwiger
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13
10:30-12:10
SCIVIS: Visual Integration and Design
Session Chair: Xiaoru Yuan

City Forensics: Using Visual Elements to Predict Non-Visual City Attributes
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Authors: Sean Arietta, Alexei Efros, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Maneesh Agrawala
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Using Topological Analysis to Support Event-Guided Exploration in Urban Data
Authors: Harish Doraiswamy, Nivan Ferreira, Theodoros Damoulas, Juliana Freire, Claudio Silva
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Activity Detection in Scientific Visualization
Authors: Sedat Ozer, Deborah Silver, Karen Bemis, Pino Martin
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Trend-Centric Motion Visualization: Designing and Applying a new Strategy for Analyzing Scientific Motion Collections
Authors: David Schroeder, Fedor Korsakov, Carissa Mai-Ping Knipe, Lauren Thorson, Arin M. Ellingson, David Nuckley, John Carlis, Daniel F. Keefe
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Curve Boxplot: Generalization of Boxplot for Ensembles of Curves
Authors: Mahsa Mirzargar, Ross Whitaker, Mike Kirby
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13
14:00-15:40
VAST: Visual Analysis of Changes
Session Chair: Zhicheng Liu

Using Visualizations to Monitor Changes and Harvest Insights from a Global-Scale Logging Infrastructure at Twitter
Authors: Krist Wongsuphasawat, Jimmy Lin
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HydroQual: Visual Analysis of River Water Quality
Authors: Pierre Accorsi, Mickaël Fabrègue, Arnaud Sallaberry, Flavie Cernesson, Nathalie Lalande, Agnès Braud, Sandra Bringay, Florence Le Ber, Pascal Poncelet, Maguelonne Teisseire
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Vismate: Interactive Visual Analysis of Station-Based Observation Data on Climate Changes
Authors: Jie Li, Kang Zhang, Zhao-Peng Meng
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BoundarySeer: Visual Analysis of 2D Boundary Changes
Authors: Wenchao Wu, Yixian Zheng, Huamin Qu, Wei Chen, Eduard Gröller, Lionel Ni
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YMCA - Your Mesh Comparison Application
Authors: Johanna Schmidt, Reinhold Preiner, Thomas Auzinger, Michael Wimmer, Eduard Gröller, Stefan Bruckner
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13
14:00-15:40
SCIVIS: Data Transformation and Comparative Visualization
Session Chair: Hans-Christian Hege

Volume-Preserving Mapping and Registration for Collective Data Visualization
Authors: Jiaxi Hu, Guangyu Jeff Zou, Jing Hua
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Fixed-Rate Compressed Floating-Point Arrays
Authors: Peter Lindstrom
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Decomposition and Simplification of Multivariate Data using Pareto Sets
Authors: Lars Huettenberger, Christian Heine, Christoph Garth
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Multi-Charts for Comparative 3D Ensemble Visualization
Authors: Ismail Demir, Christian Dick, Rüdiger Westermann
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Stent maps – Comparative visualization for the prediction of adverse events of transcatheter aortic valve implantations
Authors: Silvia Born, Simon Sündermann, Christoph Russ, Raoul Hopf, Carlos Ruiz, Volkmar Falk, Michael Gessat
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13
16:15-17:55
VAST: Visual Analysis of Semantic Meanings
Session Chair: Jorn Kohlhammer

Multi-Model Semantic Interaction for Text Analytics
Authors: Lauren Bradel, Chris North, Leanna House, Scotland Leman
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Serendip: Topic Model-Driven Visual Exploration of Text Corpora
Authors: Eric Alexander, Joe Kohlmann, Michael Witmore, Robin Valenza, Michael Gleicher
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TopicPanorama: a Full Picture of Relevant Topics
Authors: Shixia Liu, Xiting Wang, Jianfei Chen, Jun Zhu, Baining Guo
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Integrating Predictive Analytics and Social Media
Authors: Yafeng Lu, Robert Krueger, Dennis Thom, Feng Wang, Steffen Koch, Thomas Ertl, Ross Maciejewski
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PEARL: An Interactive Visual Analytic Tool for Understanding Personal Emotion Style Derived from Social Media
Authors: Jian Zhao, Liang Gou, Fei Wang, Michelle Zhou
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13
16:15-17:55
INFOVIS: Perception & Design
Session Chair: Petra Isenberg

Learning Perceptual Kernels for Visualization Design
Authors: Çağatay Demiralp, Michael Bernstein, Jeffrey Heer
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Ranking Visualization of Correlation Using Weber’s Law
Authors: Lane Harrison, Fumeng Yang, Steven Franconeri, Remco Chang
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The relation between visualization size, grouping, and user performance
Authors: Connor Gramazio, Karen Schloss, David Laidlaw
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A Principled Way of Assessing Visualization Literacy
Authors: Jeremy Boy, Ronald Rensink, Enrico Bertini, Jean-Daniel Fekete
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Reinforcing Visual Grouping Cues to Communicate Complex Informational Structure
Authors: Juhee Bae, Benjamin Watson
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14
08:30-10:10
VAST: Visual Analytics in Scientific Applications
Session Chair: Andreas Kerren

ConTour: Data-Driven Exploration of Multi-Relational Datasets for Drug Discovery
Authors: Christian Partl, Alexander Lex, Marc Streit, Hendrik Strobelt, Anne-Mai Wassermann, Hanspeter Pfister, Dieter Schmalstieg
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Visual Analytics for Comparison of Ocean Model Output with Reference Data: Detecting and Analyzing Geophysical Processes Using Clustering Ensembles
Authors: Patrick Köthur, Mike Sips, Henryk Dobslaw, Doris Dransch
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Genotet: An Interactive Web-based Visual Exploration Framework to Support Validation of Gene Regulatory Networks
Authors: Bowen Yu, Harish Doraiswamy, Xi Chen, Emily Miraldi, Mario Luis Arrieta-Ortiz, Christoph Hafemeister, Aviv Madar, Richard Bonneau, Claudio Silva
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The Spinel Explorer - Interactive Visual Analysis of Spinel Group Minerals
Authors: M. Luján Ganuza, Gabriela R. Ferracutti, M.Florencia Gargiulo, Silvia M. Castro, Ernesto A. Bjerg, Eduard Gröller, Kresimir Matkovic
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Visual Reconciliation of Alternative Similarity Spaces in Climate Modeling
Authors: Jorge Poco, Aritra Dasgupta, Yaxing Wei, William Hargrove, Christopher Schwalm, Deborah Huntzinger, Robert Cook, Enrico Bertini, Claudio Silva
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14
08:30-10:10
INFOVIS: Documents, Search & Images
Session Chair: Martin Wattenberg

Overview: The Design, Adoption, and Analysis of a Visual Document Mining Tool For Investigative Journalists
Authors: Matthew Brehmer, Stephen Ingram, Jonathan Stray, Tamara Munzner
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How Hierarchical Topics Evolve in Large Text Corpora
Authors: Weiwei Cui, Shixia Liu, Zhuofeng Wu, Hao Wei
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Exploring the Placement and Design of Word-Scale Visualizations
Authors: Pascal Goffin, Wesley Willett, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Petra Isenberg
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Similarity Preserving Snippet-Based Visualization of Web Search Results
Authors: Erick Gomez-Nieto, Frizzi San Roman, Paulo Pagliosa, Wallace Casaca, Elias S. Helou, Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira, Luis Gustavo Nonato
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Effects of Presentation Mode and Pace Control on Performance in Image Classification
Authors: Paul van der Corput, Jarke J. van Wijk
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14
08:30-10:10
SCIVIS: Video and High Dimensional Data
Session Chair: Wei Chen

A Structure-Based Distance Metric for High-Dimensional Space Exploration with Multi-Dimensional Scaling
Authors: J. Lee, K. McDonnell, A. Zelenyuk, D. Imre, K. Mueller
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An Approach to Supporting Incremental Visual Data Classification
Authors: Jose Gustavo S. Paiva, William Robson Schwartz, Helio Pedrini, Rosane Minghim
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Glyph-Based Video Visualization for Semen Analysis
Authors: Brian Duffy, Jeyarajan Thiyagalingam, Simon Walton, David J. Smith, Anne Trefethen, Jackson C. Kirkman-Brown, Eamonn A. Gaffney and Min Chen
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The Impact of Interactivity on Comprehending 2D and 3D Visualizations of Movement Data
Authors: Fereshteh Amini, Sébastien Rufiange, Zahid Hossain, Quentin Ventura, Pourang Irani, and Michael J. McGuffin
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GazeVis: Interactive 3D Gaze Visualization for Contiguous Cross-sectional Medical Images
Authors: Hyunjoo Song, Jihye Yun, Bohyoung Kim, Jinwook Seo
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