25 - 30 OCTOBER, 2015 CHICAGO, IL, USA

Papers Sessions




TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27
10:30-12:10
Room: Grand
InfoVis: Projections
Session Chair: Carlos Scheidegger

Optimal Sets of Projections of High-Dimensional Data (J)
Authors: Dirk Joachim Lehmann, Holger Theisel
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A comparative study between RadViz and Star Coordinates (J)
Authors: Manuel Rubio-Sanchez, Francisco Diaz, Laura Raya, Alberto Sanchez
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Perception-based Evaluation of Projection Methods for Multidimensional Data Visualization (T)
Authors: Ronak Etemadpour, Robson Motta, Jose Gustavo de Souza Paiva, Rosane Minghim, Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira, Lars Linsen
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Probing Projections: Interaction Techniques for Interpreting Arrangements and Errors of Dimensionality Reductions (J)
Authors: Julian Stahnke, Marian Dörk, Boris Muller, Andreas Thom
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27
10:30-12:10
Room: State
SciVis: Biomedical and Molecular Visualization (I)
Session Chair: Thomas Wischgoll

Accurate Interactive Visualization of Large Deformations and Variability in Biomedical Image (J)
Authors: Max Hermann, Anja C. Schunke, Thomas Schultz, Reinhard Klein
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Real-Time Molecular Visualization Supporting Diffuse Illumination and Ambient Occlusion (J)
Authors: Robin Skånberg, Pere-Pau Vázquez, Victor Guallar, Timo Ropinski
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Occlusion-free Blood Flow Animation with Wall Thickness Visualization (J)
Authors: Kai Lawonn, Sylvia Glasser, Anna Vilanova, Bernhard Preim, Tobias Isenberg
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NeuroBlocks: Visual Tracking of Segmentation and Proof-Reading for Large Connectomics Projects (J)
Authors: Ali Al-Awami, Johanna Beyer, Daniel Haehn, Narayanan Kasthuri, Jeff W. Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister, Markus Hadwiger
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27
10:30-12:10
Room: Red
VAST: Visual Analytics of Temporal Network Data
Session Chair: Enrico Bertini

[Best Paper] Reducing Snapshots to Points: A Visual Analytics Approach to Dynamic Network Exploration (J)
Authors: Stef van den Elzen, Danny Holten, Jorik Blaas, Jarke van Wijk
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MobilityGraphs: Visual Analysis of Mass Mobility Dynamics via Spatio-Temporal Graphs and Clustering (J)
Authors: Tatiana von Landesberger, Felix Brodkorb, Philipp Roskosch, Gennady Andrienko, Natalia Andrienko, Andreas Kerren
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Wavelet-based Visualization of Time-Varying Data on Graphs (C)
Authors: Paola Valdivia, Fábio Dias, Fabiano Petronetto, Claudio Silva, Luis Gustavo Nonato
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MotionFlow: Visual Abstraction and Aggregation of Sequential Patterns in Human Motion Tracking Data (J)
Authors: Sujin Jang, Niklas Elmqvist, Karthik Ramani
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27
14:00-15:40
Room: State
SciVis: Comparative, Ensemble and Uncertainty Visualization
Session Chair: Daniel Keefe

Streamline Variability Plots for Characterizing the Uncertainty in Vector Field Ensembles (J)
Authors: Florian Ferstl, Kai Bürger, Rüdiger Westermann
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Isosurface Visualization of Data with Nonparametric Models for Uncertainty (J)
Authors: Tushar Athawale, Elham Sakhaee, Alireza Entezari
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Effective Visualization of Temporal Ensembles (J)
Authors: Christopher Healey, Lihua Hao, Steffen Bass
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Glyph-based Comparative Visualization for Diffusion Tensor Fields (J)
Authors: Changgong Zhang, Thomas Schultz, Kai Lawonn, Elmar Eisemann, Anna Vilanova
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Multi-field Pattern Matching based on Sparse Feature Sampling (J)
Authors: Zhongjie Wang, Hans-Peter Seidel, Tino Weinkauf
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27
14:00-15:40
Room: Red
VAST: Managing Visual Analytics Process
Session Chair: Brian Fisher

Mixed-Initiative Visual Analytics Using Task-Driven Recommendations (T)
Authors: Kristin Cook, Alex Endert, Nicholas Cramer, Joe Bruce, David Israel, Michael Wolverton, Edwin Russell Burtner Russ Burtner
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Characterizing Provenance in Visualization and Data Analysis: An Organizational Framework of Provenance Types and Purposes (J)
Authors: Eric Ragan, Alex Endert, Jian Chen, Jibonananda Sanyal
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SensePath: Understanding Sensemaking Process Through Analytic Provenance (J)
Authors: Phong Nguyen, Kai Xu, Ashley Wheat, William Wong, Simon Attfield, Bob Fields
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[Honorable Mention] A Case Study Using Visualization Interaction Logs and Insight Metrics to Understand How Analysts Arrive at Insights (J)
Authors: Hua Guo, Steven Gomez, Caroline Ziemkiewicz, David Laidlaw
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[Honorable Mention] VA2: A Visual Analytics Approach for Evaluating Visual Analytics Applications (J)
Authors: Tanja Blascheck, Markus John, Kuno Kurzhals, Steffen Koch, Thomas Ertl
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27
16:15-17:55
Room: Grand
InfoVis: Networks
Session Chair: David Auber

SchemeLens: A Content-Aware Vector-Based Fisheye Technique for Navigating Large Systems Diagrams (J)
Authors: Aurelie Cohe, Bastien Liutkus, Gilles Bailly, James Eagan, Eric Lecolinet
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High-Quality Ultra-Compact Grid Layout of Grouped Networks (J)
Authors: Vahan Yoghourdjian, Tim Dwyer, Graeme Gange, Steve Kieffer, Karsten Klein, Kim Marriott
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[Best Paper] HOLA: Human-like Orthogonal Network Layout (J)
Authors: Steve Kieffer, Tim Dwyer, Kim Marriott, Michael Wybrow
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AmbiguityVis: Visualization of Ambiguity in Graph Layouts (J)
Authors: Huamin Qu, Qiaomu Shen, Yong Wang, Daniel Archambault, Zhiguang Zhou, Min Zhu, Sixiao Yang
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Representing Uncertainty in Graph Edges: An Evaluation of Paired Visual Variables (T)
Authors: Hua Guo, Jeff Huang, David H. Laidlaw
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27
16:15-17:55
Room: State
SciVis: Reconstruction, Rendering and Evaluation
Session Chair: Xiaoru Yuan

Towards an Understanding of Mobile Touch Navigation in a Stereoscopic Viewing Environment for 3D Data Exploration (T)
Authors: David López, Lora Oehlberg, Candemir Doger, Tobias Isenberg
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Reconstruction and Visualization of Coordinated 3D Cell Migration Based on Optical Flow (J)
Authors: Christopher Paul Kappe, Lucas Schütz, Stefan Gunther, Lars Hufnagel, Steffen Lemke, Heike Leitte
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Gaze Stripes: Image-Based Visualization of Eye Tracking Data (J)
Authors: Kuno Kurzhals, Marcel Hlawatsch, Florian Heimerl, Michael Burch, Thomas Ertl, Daniel Weiskopf
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Anisotropic Ambient Volume Shading (J)
Authors: Marco Ament, Carsten Dachsbacher
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JiTTree: A Just-in-Time Compiled Sparse GPU Volume Data Structure (J)
Authors: Matthias Labschütz, Stefan Bruckner, Eduard Gröller, Markus Hadwiger, Peter Rautek
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27
16:15-17:55
Room: Red
VAST: Platforms of Visual Analytics
Session Chair: Chris Weaver

Personal Visualization and Personal Visual Analytics (T)
Authors: Dandan Huang , Melanie Tory Bon Adriel Aseniero Lyn Bartram Scott Bateman Sheelagh Carpendale Anthony Tang Rob Woodbury
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Collaborative Visual Analysis with RCloud (C)
Authors: Carlos Scheidegger, Gordon Woodhull, Stephen North, Simon Urbanek
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VEEVVIE - Visual Explorer for Empirical Visualization, VR and Interaction Experiments (J)
Authors: Charilaos Papadopoulos, Ievgeniia Gutenko, Arie Kaufman
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Four Considerations for Supporting Visual Analysis in Display Ecologies (C)
Authors: Haeyong Chung, Sarang Joshi, Chris North, Jian Chen
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28
8:30-10:10
Room: Grand
InfoVis: Applications
Session Chair: Robert Kosara

Visual Mementos: Reflecting Memories with Personal Data (J)
Authors: Alice Thudt, Dominikus Baur, Samuel Huron, Sheelagh Carpendale
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Visualization, Selection, and Analysis of Traffic Flows (J)
Authors: Roeland Scheepens, Christophe Hurter, Huub van de Wetering, Jarke J. van Wijk
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Visually Comparing Weather Features in Forecasts (J)
Authors: P. Samuel Quinan, Miriah Meyer
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Vials: Visualizing Alternative Splicing of Genes (J)
Authors: Hendrik Strobelt, Bilal Alsallakh, Joseph Botros, Brant Peterson, Mark Borowsky, Hanspeter Pfister, Alexander Lex
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TimeSpan: Using Visualization to Explore Temporal Multidimensional Data of Stroke Patients (J)
Authors: Mona Hosseinkhani Loorak, Charles Perin, Noreen Kamal, Michael Hill, Sheelagh Carpendale
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28
8:30-10:10
Room: State
SciVis: Conference Track - Tasks and Applications
Session Chair: Venkat Vishwanath

A Classification of User Tasks in Visual Analysis of Volume Data (C)
Authors: Bireswar Laha, Doug Bowman, David Laidlaw, John Socha
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Using Maximum Topology Matching to Explore Differences in Species Distribution Models (C)
Authors: Jorge Poco, Harish Doraiswamy, Marian Talbert, Jeffrey Morisette, Claudio Silva
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Visual Verification of Space Weather Ensemble Simulations (C)
Authors: Alexander Bock, Asher Pembroke, M. Leila Mays, Lutz Rastaetter, Anders Ynnerman, Timo Ropinski
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A Visual Voting Framework for Weather Forecast Calibration (C)
Authors: Hongsen Liao, Yingcai Wu, Li Chen, Thomas M. Hamill, Yunhai Wang, Kan Dai, Hui Zhang, Wei Chen
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Real-time Uncertainty Visualization for B-Mode Ultrasound (C)
Authors: Christian Schulte zu Berge, Denis Declara, Christoph Hennersperger, Maximilian Baust, Nassir Navab
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28
8:30-10:10
Room: Red
VAST: Visual Analytics in Medicine and Healthcare
Session Chair: Rita Borgo

VisOHC: Designing Visual Analytics for Online Health Communities (J)
Authors: Bum Chul Kwon, Sung-Hee Kim, Sukwon Lee, Jaegul Choo, Jina Huh, Ji Soo Yi
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3D Regression Heat Map Analysis of Population Study Data (J)
Authors: Paul Klemm, Kai Lawonn, Sylvia Glasser, Uli Niemann, Kathrin Hegenscheid, Henry Voíölzke, Bernhard Preim
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Supporting Iterative Cohort Construction with Visual Temporal Queries (J)
Authors: Josua Krause, Adam Perer, Harry Stavropoulos
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PhenoBlocks: Phenotype Comparison Visualizations (J)
Authors: Michael Glueck, Peter Hamilton, Fanny Chevalier, Simon Breslav, Azam Khan, Daniel Wigdor, Michael Brudno
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Integrating Predictive Analytics into a Spatio-Temporal Epidemic Simulation (C)
Authors: Chris Bryan, Xue Wu, Susan Mniszewski, Kwan-Liu Ma
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28
10:30-12:10
Room: Grand
InfoVis: Design Studies and Methodology
Session Chair: Michael Sedlmair

Sketching designs using the Five Design-Sheet methodology (J)
Authors: Jonathan C. Roberts, Chris Headleand, Panagiotis D. Ritsos
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Bridging Theory with Practice: An Exploratory Study of Visualization Use and Design for Climate Model Comparison (T)
Authors: Aritra Dasgupta, Jorge Poco, Yaxing Wei, Robert Cook, Enrico Bertini, Claudio T. Silva
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Speculative Practises: Utilizing InfoVis to Explore Untapped Literary Collections (J)
Authors: Uta Hinrichs, Stefania Forlini, Bridget Moynihan
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Poemage: Visualizing the Sonic Topology of a Poem (J)
Authors: Nina McCurdy, Julie Lein, Katharine Coles, Miriah Meyer
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Matches, Mismatches, and Methods: Multiple-View Workflows for Energy Portfolio Analysis (J)
Authors: Matthew Brehmer, Jocelyn Ng, Kevin Tate, Tamara Munzner
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28
10:30-12:10
Room: State
SciVis: Feature Extraction and Flows
Session Chair: Daniel Weiskopf

[Honorable Mention] Rotation Invariant Vortices for Flow Visualization (J)
Authors: Tobias Günther, Maik Schulze, Holger Theisel
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Extracting, Tracking, and Visualizing Magnetic Flux Vortices in 3D Complex-Valued Superconductor (J)
Authors: Hanqi Guo, Carolyn Phillips, Tom Peterka, Dmitry Karpeyev, Andreas Glatz
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Distribution Driven Extraction and Tracking of Features for Time-varying Data Analysis (J)
Authors: Soumya Dutta, Han-Wei Shen
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Visualization and Analysis of Rotating Stall for Transonic Jet Engine Simulation (J)
Authors: Chun-Ming Chen, Soumya Dutta, Xiaotong Liu, Gregory Heinlein, Han-Wei Shen, Jenping Chen
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In Situ Eddy Analysis in a High-Resolution Ocean Climate Model (J)
Authors: Jonathan Woodring, Mark Petersen, Andre Schmeisser, John Patchett, James Ahrens, Hans Hagen
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28
10:30-12:10
Room: Red
VAST: Complementing Visual and Algorithmic Analysis
Session Chair: Remco Chang

The Data Context Map: Fusing Data and Attributes into a Unified Display (J)
Authors: Shenghui Cheng, Klaus Mueller
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InterAxis: Steering Scatterplot Axes via Observation-Level Interaction (J)
Authors: Hannah Kim, Jaegul Choo, Haesun Park, Alex Endert
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Temporal MDS Plots for Analysis of Multivariate Data (J)
Authors: Dominik Jäckle, Fabian Fischer, Tobias Schreck, Daniel Keim
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Visual Analytics for Development and Evaluation of Order Selection Criteria for Autoregressive Processes (J)
Authors: Thomas Löwe, Emmy-Charlotte Förster, Georgia Albuquerque, Jens-Peter Kreiss, Marcus Magnor
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Supporting Activity Recognition by Visual Analytics (C)
Authors: Martin Röhlig, Martin Luboschik, Markus Bögl, Frank Krüger, Bilal Alsallakh, Silvia Miksch, Thomas Kirste, Heidrun Schumann
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28
14:00-15:40
Room: Grand
InfoVis: Perception
Session Chair: Heidi Lam

Spatial Reasoning and Data Displays (J)
Authors: Susan VanderPlas, Heike Hofmann
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[Honorable Mention] Beyond Weber's Law: A Second Look at Ranking Visualizations of Correlation (J)
Authors: Matthew Kay, Jeffrey Heer
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A Psychophysical Investigation of Size as a Physical Variable (J)
Authors: Yvonne Jansen, Kasper Hornbaek
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Guidelines for Effective Usage of Text Highlighting Techniques (J)
Authors: Hendrik Strobelt, Daniela Oelke, Bum Chul Kwon, Tobias Schreck, Hanspeter Pfister
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Comparing Color and Leader Line Highlighting Strategies in Coordinated View Geovisualizations (T)
Authors: Amy L. Griffin, Anthony C. Robinson
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28
14:00-15:40
Room: Red
VAST: Visual Analytics of Movement and Transport Data
Session Chair: Jörn Kohlhammer

A Methodology for Simplification and Thematic Enhancement of Trajectories (T)
Authors: Katerina Vrotsou, Halldor Janetzko, Carlo Navarra, Georg Fuchs, David Spretke, Florian Mansmann, Natalia Andrienko, Gennady Andrienko
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TrajGraph: A Graph-Based Visual Analytics Approach to Studying Urban Network Centrality Using Taxi Trajectory Data (J)
Authors: Xiaoke Huang, Ye Zhao, Jing Yang, Chong Zhang, Chao Ma, Xinyue Ye
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iVizTRANS: Interactive Visual Learning for Home and Work Place Detection from Massive Public Transportation Data (C)
Authors: Liang Yu, Wei Wu, Xiaohui Li, Guangxia Li, Wee Siong Ng, See Kiong Ng, Zhongwen Huang, Anushiya Arunan, Hui Min Watt
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AllAboard: Visual Exploration of Cellphone Mobility Data to Optimise Public Transport (T)
Authors: Giusy di Lorenzo, Marco Luca Sbodio, Francesco Calabrese, Michele Berlingerio, Fabio Pinelli, Rahul Nair
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Visually Exploring Transportation Schedules (J)
Authors: Cesar Palomo, Zhan Guo, Claudio Silva, Juliana Freire
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28
14:00-15:40
Room: Empire
CG&A: Personal Visualization
Session Chair: Melanie Tory

Understanding Digital Note-Taking Practice for Visualization
Authors: Wesley Willett, Pascal Goffin, Petra Isenberg
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Eye Tracking for Personal Visual Analytics
Authors: Kuno Kurzhals, Daniel Weiskopf
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Characterizing Visualization Insights from Quantified-Selfers' Personal Data Presentations
Authors: Eun Kyoung Choe, Bongshin Lee, M. C. Schraefel
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Engaging with Energy in the Informative Home: Challenges and opportunities for eco-feedback
Authors: Lyn Bartram
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Design and Effects of Personal Visualizations
Authors: Shimin Wang, Yuzuru Tanahashi, Nick Leaf, Kwan-Liu Ma
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28
16:15-17:55
Room: State
SciVis: Maps, Geometry and Terrain
Session Chair: Ross Maciejewski

Planar Visualization of Treelike Structures (J)
Authors: Joseph Marino, Arie Kaufman
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Interstitial and Interlayer Ion Diffusion Geometry Extraction in Graphitic Nanosphere Battery (J)
Authors: Attila Gyulassy, Aaron Knoll, Peer-Timo Bremer, Bei Wang, Kah Chun Lau, Michael Papka, Larry Curtiss, Valerio Pascucci
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Effectiveness of Structured Textures on Dynamically Changing Terrain-like Surfaces (J)
Authors: Thomas Butkiewicz, Andrew H. Stevens
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TelCoVis: Visual Exploration of Co-occurrence in Urban Human Mobility Based on Telco Data (J)
Authors: Wenchao Wu, Jiayi Xu, Haipeng Zeng, Yixian Zheng, Bing Ni, Mingxuan Yuan, Lionel M. Ni, Huamin Qu
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28
16:15-17:55
Room: Red
VAST: Uncertainty, Correlation, and Causality
Session Chair: Laura McNamara

Visual Correlation Analysis of Numerical and Categorical Data on the Correlation Map (T)
Authors: Zhiyuan Zhang, Kevin T. McDonnell, Erez Zadok, Klaus Mueller
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The Visual Causality Analyst: An Interactive Interface for Causal Reasoning (J)
Authors: Jun Wang, Klaus Mueller
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The Role of Uncertainty, Awareness, and Trust in Visual Analytics (J)
Authors: Dominik Sacha, Hansi Senaratne, Bum Chul Kwon, Geoffrey Ellis, Daniel Keim
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An Uncertainty-Aware Approach for Exploratory Microblog Retrieval (J)
Authors: Mengchen Liu, Shixia Liu, Xizhou Zhu, Qinying Liao, Furu Wei, Shimei Pan
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29
8:30-10:10
Room: Grand
InfoVis: Human Reasoning
Session Chair: Wesley Willett

How do People Make Sense of Unfamiliar Visualization?: A Grounded Model of Novice's Information Visualization Sensemaking (J)
Authors: Sukwon Lee, Sung-Hee Kim, Ya-Hsin Hung, Heidi Lam, Youn-ah Kang, Ji Soo Yi
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Learning Visualizations by Analogy: Promoting Visual Literacy through Visualization Morphing (T)
Authors: Puripant Ruchikachorn, Klaus Mueller
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Acquired Codes of Meaning in Data Visualization and Infographics: Beyond Perceptual Primitives (J)
Authors: Lydia Byrne, Daniel Angus, Janet Wiles
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Beyond Memorability: Visualization Recognition and Recall (J)
Authors: Michelle A. Borkin, Zoya Bylinskii, Nam Wook Kim, Constance May Bainbridge, Chelsea S. Yeh, Daniel Borkin, Hanspeter Pfister, Aude Oliva
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Improving Bayesian Reasoning: The Effects of Phrasing, Visualization, and Spatial Ability (J)
Authors: Alvitta Ottley, Evan M. Peck, Lane T. Harrison, Daniel Afergan, Caroline Ziemkiewicz, Holly A. Taylor, Paul K. J. Han, Remco Chang
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29
8:30-10:10
Room: State
SciVis: Interfaces, Languages and Systems
Session Chair: Yingcai Wu

Diderot: a Domain-Specific Language for Portably Parallel Scientific Visualization and Image Analysis (J)
Authors: Gordon Kindlmann, Charisee Chiw, Nicholas Seltzer, Lamont Samuels, John Reppy
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[Best Paper] Visualization-by-Sketching: An Artist’s Interface for Creating Multivariate Time-Varying Data (J)
Authors: David Schroeder, Daniel Keefe
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CAST: Effective and Efficient User Interaction for Context-Aware Selection in 3D Particle Clouds (J)
Authors: Lingyun Yu, Konstantinos Efstathiou, Petra Isenberg, Tobias Isenberg
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Intuitive Exploration of Volumetric Data Using Dynamic Galleries (J)
Authors: Daniel Jönsson, Martin Falk, Anders Ynnerman
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Scalable Parallel Distance Field Construction for Large-Scale Applications (T)
Authors: Hongfeng Yu, Jinrong Xie,  Kwan-Liu Ma, Hemanth Kolla, Jacqueline H. Chen
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29
8:30-10:10
Room: Red
VAST: Visual Analytics of Textual Data (I)
Session Chair: Patricia Crossno

Visual Analysis and Dissemination of Scientific Literature Collections with SurVis (J)
Authors: Fabian Beck, Sebastian Koch, Daniel Weiskopf
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CiteRivers: Visual Analytics of Citation Patterns (J)
Authors: Florian Heimerl, Qi Han, Steffen Koch, Thomas Ertl
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Interactive Visual Profiling of Musicians (J)
Authors: Stefan Jänicke, Josef Focht, Gerik Scheuermann
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VAiRoma: A Visual Analytics System for Making Sense of Places, Times, and Events in Roman History (J)
Authors: Isaac Cho, Wenwen Dou, Xiaoyu Wang, Eric Sauda, Bill Ribarsky
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Exploring Evolving Media Discourse Through Event Cueing (J)
Authors: Yafeng Lu, Michael Steptoe, Sarah Burke, Hong Wang, Jiun-Yi Tsai, Hasan Davulcu, Douglas Montgomery, Steven R. Corman, Ross Maciejewski
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29
10:30-12:10
Room: Grand
InfoVis: Interactive Systems
Session Chair: Miriah Meyer

Suggested Interactivity: Seeking Perceived Affordances for Information Visualization (J)
Authors: Jeremy Boy, Louis Eveillard, Francoise Detienne, Jean-Daniel Fekete
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VectorLens: Angular Selection of Curves within 2D Dense Visualizations (T)
Authors: Maxine Dumas, Michael McGuffin, Patrick Chasse
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Voyager: Exploratory Analysis via Faceted Browsing of Visualization Recommendations (J)
Authors: Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Dominik Moritz, Anushka Anand, Jock Mackinlay, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer
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VisDock: A Toolkit for Cross-Cutting Interactions in Visualization (T)
Authors: Jungu Choi, Deok Gun Park, Yuet Ling Wong, Eli Raymond Fisher, Niklas Elmqvist
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Reactive Vega: A Streaming Dataflow Architecture for Declarative Interactive Visualization (J)
Authors: Arvind Satyanarayan, Ryan Russell, Jane Hoffswell, Jeffrey Heer
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29
10:30-12:10
Room: State
SciVis: Conference Track - Vectors, Acceleration, and Hardware
Session Chair: Gunther Weber

Explicit Frequency Control for High-Quality Texture-Based Flow Visualization (C)
Authors: Victor Matvienko, Jens Krueger
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Feature-Based Tensor Field Visualization for Fiber Reinforced Polymers (C)
Authors: Valentin Zobel, Markus Stommel, Gerik Scheuermann
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CPU Ray Tracing Large Particle Data with Balanced P-k-d Trees (C)
Authors: Ingo Wald, Aaron Knoll, Gregory P Johnson, Will Usher, Valerio Pascucci, Michael Papka
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Auto-Calibration of Multi-Projector Displays with a Single Handheld Camera (C)
Authors: Sanghun Park, Hyunggoog Seo, Seunghoon Cha, Junyong Noh
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29
10:30-12:10
Room: Red
VAST: Visual Analytics of Social Media Data
Session Chair: Jessie Kennedy

DemographicVis: Analyzing Demographic Information based on User Generated Content (C)
Authors: Wenwen Dou, Isaac Cho, Omar ElTayeby, Jaegul Choo, Bill Ribarsky
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egoSlider: Visual Analysis of Egocentric Network Evolution (J)
Authors: Yanhong Wu, Naveen Pitipornvivat, Jian Zhao, Sixiao Yang, Guowei Huang, Huamin Qu
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Interactive Visual Movement Patterns Discovering from Sparsely Sampled Geo-tagged Social Media Data (J)
Authors: Siming Chen, Zhenhuang Wang, Cong Guo, Zuchao Wang, Jie Liang, Xiaoru Yuan, Xiaolong (Luke) Zhang, Jiawan Zhang
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TargetVue: Visual Analysis of Anomaly User Behaviors in Online Communication Systems (J)
Authors: Nan Cao, Conglei Shi, W. Sabrina Lin, Jie Lu, Yu-Ru Lin, Ching-Yung Lin
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EgoNetCloud: Event-based Egocentric Dynamic Network Visualization (C)
Authors: Qingsong Liu, Yifan Hu, Lei Shi, Xinzhu Mu, Yutao Zhang, Jie Tang
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29
14:00-15:40
Room: Grand
InfoVis: Techniques
Session Chair: Nathalie Riche

Automatic Selection of Partitioning Variables for Small Multiple Displays (J)
Authors: Anushka Anand, Justin Talbot
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A Simple Approach for Boundary Improvement of Euler Diagrams (J)
Authors: Paolo Simonetto, Daniel Archambault, Carlos Scheidegger
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AggreSet: Rich and Scalable Set Exploration using Visualizations of Element Aggregations (J)
Authors: M. Adil Yalcin, Niklas Elmqvist, Benjamin B. Bederson
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UnTangle Map: Visual Analysis of Probabilistic Multi-Label Data (T)
Authors: Nan Cao, Yu-Ru Lin, David Gotz
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A Linguistic Approach to Categorical Color Assignment for Data Visualization (J)
Authors: Vidya Setlur, Maureen Stone
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29
14:00-15:40
Room: State
SciVis: Multivariate and Tensor Visualization
Session Chair: Hongfeng Yu

Interactive Visualization for Singular Fibers of Functions f: R3->R2 (J)
Authors: Daisuke Sakurai, Osamu Saeki, Hamish Carr, Hsiang-Yun Wu, Takahiro Yamamoto, David Duke, Shigeo Takahashi
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Association Analysis for Visual Exploration of Multivariate Scientific Data Sets (J)
Authors: Xiaotong Liu, Han-Wei Shen
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Mining Graphs for Understanding Time-Varying Volumetric Data (J)
Authors: Yi Gu, Chaoli Wang, Tom Peterka, Robert Jacob, Seung Hyun Kim
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Visualizing Tensor Normal Distributions at Multiple Levels of Detail (J)
Authors: Amin Abbasloo, Vitalis Wiens, Max Hermann, Thomas Schultz
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Adaptive Multilinear Tensor Product Wavelets (J)
Authors: Kenneth Weiss, Peter Lindstrom
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29
14:00-15:40
Room: Empire
CG&A: Application-tailored Visualizations
Session Chair: Miguel Encarnacao

Visual Analytics for Early-Phase Complex Engineered System Design Support
Authors: Rahul C. Basole, Ahsan Qamar, Hyunwoo Park, Christiaan J.J. Paredis, Leon F. McGinnis
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A Graph-based Method to Detect Rare Events: An Application to Identify Pathologic Cells
Authors: Enikö Székely, Arnaud Sallaberry, Faraz Zaidi, Pascal Poncelet
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Knowledge-Assisted Ranking: A Visual Analytic Application for Sport Event Data
Authors: David H. S. Chung, Matthew L. Parry, Iwan W. Griffiths, Robert S. Laramee, Rhodri Bown, Philip A. Legg, Min Chen
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Visualizing Personal Progress in Participatory Sports Cycling Events
Authors: Jo Wood
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Interactive Visual Analysis of Heterogeneous Cohort Study Data
Authors: Paolo Angelelli, Steffen Oeltze, Judit Haász, Cagatay Turkay, Erlend Hodneland, Arvid Lundervold, Astri J. Lundervold, Bernhard Preim, Helwig Hauser
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29
16:15-17:55
Room: Grand
InfoVis: Multidimensional Visualization
Session Chair: Marian Dörk

Off the Radar: Comparative Evaluation of Radial Visualization Solutions for Composite Indicators (J)
Authors: Yael Albo, Joel Lanir, Peter Bak, Sheizaf Rafaeli
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Evaluation of Parallel Coordinates: Overview, Categorization, and Guidelines for Future Research (J)
Authors: Jimmy Johansson, Camilla Forsell
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Orientation-Enhanced Parallel Coordinate Plots (J)
Authors: Renata Raidou, Martin Eisemann, Marcel Breeuwer, Elmar Eisemann, Anna Vilanova
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Visualizing Multiple Variables Across Scale and Geography (J)
Authors: Sarah Goodwin, Jason Dykes, Aidan Slingsby, Cagatay Turkay
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29
16:15-17:55
Room: Red
VAST: Visual Analytics in Design and Development
Session Chair: Kelly Gaither

FPSSeer: Visual Analysis of Game Frame Rate Data (C)
Authors: Quan Li, Peng Xu, Huamin Qu
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LiteVis: Integrated Visualization for Simulation-Based Decision Support in Lighting Design (J)
Authors: Johannes Sorger, Thomas Ortner, Christian Luksch, Michael Schwärzler, Eduard Gröller, Harald Piringer
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Comparative Visual Analysis of Vector Field Ensembles (C)
Authors: Mihaela Jarema, Ismail Demir, Johannes Kehrer, Rüdiger Westermann
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Interactive Visual Steering of Hierarchical Simulation Ensembles (C)
Authors: Rainer Splechtna, Kresimir Matkovic, Denis Gracanin, Mario Jelovic, Helwig Hauser
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Urbane: A 3D Framework to Support Data Driven Decision Making in Urban Development (C)
Authors: Nivan Ferreira, Marcos Lage, Harish Doraiswamy, Huy Vo, Luc Wilson, Heidi Werner, Muchan Park, Claudio Silva
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30
8:30-10:10
Room: Grand
InfoVis: Time
Session Chair: Adam Perer

Visual Encodings of Temporal Uncertainty: A Comparative User Study (J)
Authors: Theresia Gschwandtner, Markus Bogl, Paolo Federico, Silvia Miksch
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TimeNotes: A Study on Effective Chart Visualization and Interaction Techniques for Time-Series Data (J)
Authors: James Walker, Rita Borgo, Mark Jones
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Time Curves: Folding Time to Visualize Patterns of Temporal Evolution in Data (J)
Authors: Benjamin Bach, Conglei Shi, Nicolas Heulot, Tara Madhayastha, Tom Grabowski, Pierre Dragicevic
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An Efficient Framework for Generating Storyline Visualizations from Streaming Data (T)
Authors: Yuzuru Tanahashi, Chien-Hsin Hsueh, Kwan-Liu Ma
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ThemeDelta: Dynamic Segmentations over Temporal Topic Models (T)
Authors: Samah Gad, Waqas Javed, Sohaib Ghani, Niklas Elmqvist, Tom Ewing, Keith N. Hampton, Naren Ramakrishnan
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30
8:30-10:10
Room: State
SciVis: Biomedical and Molecular Visualization (II)
Session Chair: Gordon Kindlemann

AnimoAminoMiner: Exploration of Protein Tunnels and their Properties in Molecular Dynamics (J)
Authors: Jan Byška, Mathieu Le Muzic, Eduard Gröller, Ivan Viola, Barbora Kozlikova
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Exploration of the Brain's White Matter Structure through Visual Abstraction and Multi-Scale Local Fiber Tract Contraction (T)
Authors: Maarten H. Everts, Henk Bekker, Jos B.T.M. Roerdink, Tobias Isenberg
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Cluster Analysis of Vortical Flow in Simulations of Cerebral Aneurysm Hemodynamics (J)
Authors: Steffen Oeltze-Jafra, Juan R. Cebral, Gábor Janiga, Bernhard Preim
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30
8:30-10:10
Room: Red
VAST: Visual Analytics of Textual Data (II)
Session Chair: Margit Pohl

TimeLineCurator: Interactive Authoring of Visual Timelines from Unstructured Text (J)
Authors: Johanna Fulda, Matthew Brehmer, Tamara Munzner
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BiSet: Semantic Edge Bundling with Biclusters for Sensemaking (J)
Authors: Maoyuan Sun, Peng Mi, Chris North, Naren Ramakrishnan
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FeatureInsight: Visual Support for Error-Driven Feature Ideation in Text Classification (C)
Authors: Michael Brooks, Saleema Amershi, Bongshin Lee, Steven Drucker, Ashish Kapoor, Patrice Simard
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Task-Driven Comparison of Topic Models (J)
Authors: Eric Alexander, Michael Gleicher
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30
8:30-10:10
Room: Empire
CG&A: Business Intelligence Visualization and Displays
Session Chair: Theresa-Marie Rhyne

The Reality Deck - Immersive Gigapixel Display
Authors: Charilaos Papadopoulos, Kaloian Petkov, Arie E. Kaufman, Klaus Mueller
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Visual Business Ecosystem Intelligence: Lessons from the Field
Authors: Rahul C. Basole
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Visualization Beyond the Desktop - the next big thing
Authors: Jonathan C. Roberts, Panagiotis D. Ritsos, Sriram Karthik Badam, Dominique Brodbeck, Jessie Kennedy, Niklas Elmqvist
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From Data to Insight: Work Practices of Analysts in the Enterprise
Authors: Eser Kandogan, Aruna Balakrishnan, Eben M. Haber, Jeffrey S. Pierce
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Business Intelligence from Social Media: A Study from the VAST Box Office Challenge
Authors: Yafeng Lu, Feng Wang, Ross Maciejewski
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(T) TVCG paper | (J) Journal paper, proceedings special issue | (C) Conference track paper