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Papers Sessions

[J] (TVCG journal special issue (SI) papers)
[T] (previously published TVCG journal papers presented at VIS)
[C] conference papers

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3
8:15am-10:30am
Room: 301-CD
VIS: VIS Awards & Best Papers
Session Chair: Best Paper Award Committees

Visualizing Dataflow Graphs of Deep Learning Models in TensorFlow (J) (Best Paper Award, VAST)
Authors: Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Daniel Smilkov, James Wexler, Jimbo Wilson, Dandelion Mané, Doug Fritz, Dilip Krishnan, Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg
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Modeling Color Difference for Visualization Design (J) (Best Paper Award, InfoVis)
Authors: Danielle Albers Szafir
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Globe Browsing: Contextualized Spatio-Temporal Planetary Surface Visualization (J) (Best Paper Award, SciVis)
Authors: Karl Bladin, Emil Axelsson, Erik Broberg, Carter Emmart, Patric Ljung, Alexander Bock, Anders Ynnerman
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3
2:00pm-3:40pm
Room: 301-C
VAST: Space, Time, Movement
Session Chair: Bettina Speckmann

Bring it to the Pitch: Combining Video and Movement Data to Enhance Team Sport Analysis (J)
Authors: Manuel Stein, Halldor Janetzko, Andreas Lamprecht, Thorsten Breitkreutz, Philipp Zimmermann, Bastian Goldlücke, Tobias Schreck, Gennady Andrienko, Michael Grossniklaus, Daniel A. Keim
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Voila: Visual Anomaly Detection and Monitoring with Streaming Spatiotemporal Data (J)
Authors: Nan Cao, Chaoguang Lin, Qiuhan Zhu, Yu-Ru Lin, Xian Teng, Xidao Wen
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Clustering Trajectories by Relevant Parts for Air Traffic Analysis (J)
Authors: Gennady Andrienko, Natalia Andrienko, Georg Fuchs, Jose Manuel Cordero Garcia
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Revealing Patterns and Trends of Mass Mobility through Spatial and Temporal Abstraction of Origin-Destination Movement Data (T)
Authors: Gennady Andrienko, Natalia Andrienko, Georg Fuchs, Jo Wood
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Data Flow Analysis and Visualization for Spatiotemporal Statistical Data without Trajectory Information (T)
Authors: Seokyeon Kim, Seongmin Jeong, Insoo Woo, Yun Jang, Ross Maciejewski, David Ebert
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3
2:00pm-3:40pm
Room: 301-D
InfoVis: Techniques
Session Chair: Yvonne Jansen

Visualizing Nonlinear Narratives with Story Curves (J)
Authors: Nam Wook Kim, Benjamin Bach, Hyejin Im, Sasha Schriber, Markus Gross, Hanspeter Pfister
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MyBrush: Brushing and Linking with Personal Agency (J)
Authors: Philipp Koytek, Charles Perin, Jo Vermeulen, Elisabeth André, Sheelagh Carpendale
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Nonlinear Dot Plots (J)
Authors: Nils Rodrigues, Daniel Weiskopf
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VisTiles: Coordinating and Combining Co-located Mobile Devices for Visual Data Exploration (J)
Authors: Ricardo Langner, Tom Horak, Raimund Dachselt
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Uncertainty Visualization by Representative Sampling from Prediction Ensembles (T)
Authors: Le Liu; Alexander Boone; Ian Ruginski; Lace Padilla; Mary Hegarty; Sarah H. Creem-Regehr; William B. Thompson; Cem Yuksel; Donald H. House
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3
2:00pm-3:40pm
Room: 207 LECTURE HALL
SciVis: Mix: Foundations, uncertainty, particles
Session Chair: Anna Vilanova

Activity-Centered Domain Characterization for Problem-Driven Scientific Visualization (J)
Authors: G. Elisabeta Marai
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Theoretical Framework for the Assessment of Continuous Colormaps (J)
Authors: Roxana Bujack, Terece L. Turton, Francesca Samsel, Colin Ware, David H. Rogers, James Ahrens
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Uncertainty Visualization Using Copula-Based Analysis in Mixed Distribution Models (J)
Authors: Subhashis Hazarika, Ayan Biswas, Han-Wei Shen
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Screen-Space Normal Distribution Function Caching for Consistent Multi-Resolution Rendering of Large Particle Data (J)
Authors: Mohamed Ibrahim, Patrick Wickenhäuser, Peter Rautek, Guido Reina, Markus Hadwiger
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Dynamic Load Balancing Based on Constrained K-D Tree Decomposition for Parallel Particle Tracing (J)
Authors: Jiang Zhang, Hanqi Guo, Fan Hong, Xiaoru Yuan, Tom Peterka
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3
4:15pm-5:55pm
Room: 301-C
VAST: Graphs and Trees
Session Chair: Stephen Kobourov

Dynamic Influence Networks for Rule-based Models (J)
Authors: Angus G. Forbes, Andrew Burks, Kristine Lee, Xing Li, Pierre Boutillier, Jean Krivine, Walter Fontana
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BiDots: Visual Exploration of Weighted Biclusters (J)
Authors: Jian Zhao, Maoyuan Sun, Francine Chen, Patrick Chiu
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How Do Ancestral Traits Shape Family Trees over Generations? (J)
Authors: Siwei Fu, Hao Dong, Weiwei Cui, Jian Zhao, Huamin Qu
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VIGOR: Interactive Visual Exploration of Graph Query Results (J)
Authors: Robert Pienta, Fred Hohman, Alex Endert, Acar Tamersoy, Kevin Roundy, Chris Gates, Shamkant Navathe, Duen Horng Chau
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Graphiti: Interactive Specification of Attribute-based Edges for Network Modeling and Visualization (J)
Authors: Arjun Srinivasan, Hyunwoo Park, Alex Endert, Rahul C. Basole
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3
4:15pm-5:55pm
Room: 301-D
InfoVis: Time and Space
Session Chair: Benjamin Bach

TACO: Visualizing Changes in Tables Over Time (J)
Authors: Christina Niederer, Holger Stitz, Reem Hourieh, Florian Grassinger, Wolfgang Aigner, Marc Streit
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CasCADe: A Novel 4D Visualization System for Virtual Construction Planning (J)
Authors: Paulo Ivson, Daniel Nascimento, Waldemar Celes, Simone DJ Barbosa
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Assessing the Graphical Perception of Time and Speed on 2D + Time Trajectories (J)
Authors: Charles Perin, Tiffany Wun, Richard Pusch, Sheelagh Carpendale
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Timelines Revisited: A Design Space and Considerations for Expressive Storytelling (T)
Authors: Matthew Brehmer; Bongshin Lee; Benjamin Bach; Nathalie Henry Riche; Tamara Munzner
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TopKube: A Rank-Aware Data Cube for Real-Time Exploration of Spatiotemporal Data (T)
Authors: Fabio Miranda; Lauro Lins; James Klosowski; Claudio Silva
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3
4:15pm-5:55pm
Room: 207 LECTURE HALL
SciVis: Volume Rendering
Session Chair: Issei Fujishiro

An Intelligent System Approach for Probabilistic Volume Rendering using Hierarchical 3D Convolutional Sparse Coding (J)
Authors: Tran Minh Quan, Junyoung Choi, Haejin Jeong, Won-Ki Jeong
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A Statistical Direct Volume Rendering Framework for Visualization of Uncertain Data (T)
Authors: Elham Sakhaee, Alireza Entezari
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SparseLeap: Efficient Empty Space Skipping for Large-Scale Volume Rendering (J)
Authors: Markus Hadwiger, Ali K. Al-Awami, Johanna Beyer, Marco Agus, Hanspeter Pfister
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Interactive Dynamic Volume Illumination with Refraction and Caustics (J)
Authors: Jens G. Magnus, Stefan Bruckner
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A Virtual Reality Visualization Tool for Neuron Tracing (J)
Authors: Will Usher, Pavol Klacansky, Frederick Federer, Peer-Timo Bremer, Aaron Knoll, Alessandra Angelucci, Valerio Pascucci
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4
8:30am-10:10am
Room: 301-C
VAST: High-dimensional Data
Session Chair: Remco Chang

LDSScanner: Exploratory Analysis of Low-Dimensional Structures in High-Dimensional Datasets (J)
Authors: Jiazhi Xia, Fenjin Ye, Wei Chen, Yusi Wang, Weifeng Chen, Yuxin Ma, Anthony K.H. Tung
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Pattern Trails: Visual Analysis of Pattern Transitions in Subspaces (C)
Authors: Dominik Jäckle, Michael Hund, Michael Behrisch, Daniel Keim, Tobias Schreck
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SkyLens: Visual Analysis of Skyline on Multi-dimensional Data (J)
Authors: Xun Zhao, Yanhong Wu, Weiwei Cui, Xinnan Du, Yuan Chen, Yong Wang, Dik Lun Lee, Huamin Qu
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Visualizing Big Data Outliers through Distributed Aggregation (J)
Authors: Leland Wilkinson
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The Subspace Voyager: Exploring High-Dimensional Data along a Continuum of Salient 3D Subspaces (T)
Authors: Bing Wang, Klaus Mueller
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4
8:30am-10:10am
Room: 301-D
InfoVis: Perception
Session Chair: Danielle Albers Szafir

Data Visualization Saliency Model: A Tool for Evaluating Abstract Data Visualizations (J)
Authors: Laura E. Matzen, Michael J. Haass, Kristin M. Divis, Zhiyuan Wang, Andrew T. Wilson
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Open vs. Closed Shapes: New Perceptual Categories? (J)
Authors: David Burlinson, Kalpathi Subramanian, Paula Goolkasian
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Perceptual Biases in Font Size as a Data Encoding (T)
Authors: Eric Carlson Alexander, Chih-Ching Chang, Mariana Shimabukuro, Steve Franconeri, Christopher Collins, Michael Gleicher
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Priming and Anchoring Effects in Visualization (J)
Authors: André Calero Valdez, Martina Ziefle, Michael Sedlmair
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Evaluating Interactive Graphical Encodings for Data Visualization (T)
Authors: Bahador Saket, Arjun Srinivasan, Eric D. Ragan, Alex Endert
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4
8:30am-10:10am
Room: 207 LECTURE HALL
SciVis: Flow Visualization
Session Chair: Hanqi Guo

Robust Detection and Visualization of Jet-stream Core Lines in Atmospheric Flow (J)
Authors: Michael Kern, Tim Hewson, Filip Sadlo, Rüdiger Westermann, Marc Rautenhaus
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Visual Analysis of Inclusion Dynamics in Two-Phase Flow (T)
Authors: Grzegorz Karch, Fabian Beck, Moritz Ertl, Christian Meister, Kathrin Schulte, Bernhard Weigand, Thomas Ertl, Filip Sadlo
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A Combined Eulerian-Lagrangian Data Representation for Large-scale Applications (T)
Authors: Franz Sauer, Jinrong Xie, Kwan-Liu Ma
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On the Treatment of Field Quantities and Elemental Continuity in FEM Solutions (J)
Authors: Ashok Jallepalli, Julia Docampo-Sánchez, Jennifer K. Ryan, Bob Haimes, Robert M. Kirby
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4
10:30am-12:10pm
Room: 207 LECTURE HALL
VAST: Text Analytics
Session Chair: Patricia Crossno

A Survey on Visual Approaches for Analyzing Scientific Literature and Patents (T)
Authors: Paolo Federico, Florian Heimerl, Steffen Koch, Silvia Miksch
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vispubdata.org: A Metadata Collection about IEEE Visualization (VIS) Publications (T)
Authors: Petra Isenberg, Florian Heimerl, Steffen Koch, Tobias Isenberg, Panpan Xu, Charles Stolper, Michael Sedlmair, Jian Chen, Torsten Moller, John T. Stasko
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ConceptVector: Text Visual Analytics via Interactive Lexicon Building using Word Embedding (J)
Authors: Deokgun Park, Seungyeon Kim, Jurim Lee, Jaegul Choo, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Niklas Elmqvist
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PhenoLines: Phenotype Comparison Visualizations for Disease Subtyping via Topic Models (J)
Authors: Michael Glueck, Mahdi Pakdaman Naeini, Finale Doshi-Velez, Fanny Chevalier, Azam Khan, Daniel Wigdor, Michael Brudno
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Progressive Learning of Topic Modeling Parameters: A Visual Analytics Framework (J) (Best Paper Honorable Mention)
Authors: Mennatallah El-Assady, Rita Sevastjanova, Fabian Sperrle, Daniel Keim, Christopher Collins
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4
10:30am-12:10pm
Room: 301-C
VAST: ML1: Deep Learning
Session Chair: Ross Maciejewski

Analyzing the Training Processes of Deep Generative Models (J)
Authors: Mengchen Liu, Jiaxin Shi, Kelei Cao, Jun Zhu, Shixia Liu
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Understanding Hidden Memories of Recurrent Neural Networks (C)
Authors: Yao Ming, Shaozu CAO, Ruixiang Zhang, Zhen LI, Yuanzhe Chen, Yangqiu Song, Huamin Qu
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ActiVis: Visual Exploration of Industry-Scale Deep Neural Network Models (J)
Authors: Minsuk Kahng, Pierre Y. Andrews, Aditya Kalro, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau
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DeepEyes: Progressive Visual Analytics for Designing Deep Neural Networks (J)
Authors: Nicola Pezzotti, Thomas Höllt, Jan van Gemert, Boudewijn P.F. Lelieveldt, Elmar Eisemann, Anna Vilanova
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4
10:30am-12:10pm
Room: 301-D
InfoVis: Design
Session Chair: Angus Forbes

Scatterplots: Tasks, Data, and Designs (J)
Authors: Alper Sarikaya, Michael Gleicher
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Considerations for Visualizing Comparison (J)
Authors: Michael Gleicher
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Structuring Visualization Mock-ups at a Graphical Level by Dividing the Display Space (J)
Authors: Romain Vuillemot, Jeremy Boy
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Bridging From Goals to Tasks with Design Study Analysis Reports (J) (Best Paper Honorable Mention)
Authors: Heidi Lam, Melanie Tory, Tamara Munzner
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4
10:30am-12:10pm
Room: 101-ABC
CG&A: Spatiotemporal Applications
Session Chair: Francesca Samsel

ARIES: Enabling Visual Exploration and Organization of Art Image Collections
Authors: Lhaylla Crissaff, Louisa Wood Ruby, Samantha Deutch, R. Luke DuBois, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Juliana Freire, Claudio Silva
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Glyph Visualization: A Fail-Safe Design Scheme Based on Quasi-Hamming Distances
Authors: Philip A. Legg, Eamonn Maguire, Simon Walton, Min Chen
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StatCast Dashboard: Exploration of Spatiotemporal Baseball Data
Authors: Marcos Lage, Jorge Henrique Ono, Daniel Cervone, Justin Chiang, Carlos Dietrich, Claudio Silva
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VisAdapt: A Visualization Tool to Support Climate Change Adaptation
Authors: Jimmy Johansson, Tomasz Opach, Erik Glaas, Tina-Simone Neset, Carlo Navarra, Bjorn-Ola Linner, Jan Ketil Rod
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4
2:00pm-3:40pm
Room: 301-C
VAST: Sequences and Events
Session Chair: Alexander Lex

Sequence Synopsis: Optimize Visual Summary of Temporal Event Data (J)
Authors: Yuanzhe Chen, Panpan Xu, Liu Ren
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EventThread: Visual Summarization and Stage Analysis of Event Sequence Data (J)
Authors: Shunan Guo, Ke Xu, Rongwen Zhao, David Gotz, Hongyuan Zha, Nan Cao
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CrystalBall: A Visual Analytic System for Future Event Discovery and Analysis from Social Media Data (C)
Authors: Isaac Cho, Ryan Wesslen, Svitlana Volkova, Bill Ribarsky, Wenwen Dou
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E-Map: A Visual Analytics Approach for Exploring Significant Event Evolutions in Social Media (C)
Authors: Siming Chen, Shuai Chen, Lijing Lin, Xiaoru Yuan, Jie Liang, Xiaolong (Luke) Zhang
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Understanding a sequence of sequences: Visual exploration of categorical states in lake sediment cores (J)
Authors: Andrea Unger, Nadine Dräger, Mike Sips, Dirk J. Lehmann
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4
2:00pm-3:40pm
Room: 301-D
InfoVis: Multidimensional Data
Session Chair: Rita Borgo

Exploring Multivariate Event Sequences using Rules, Aggregations, and Selections (J)
Authors: Bram C.M. Cappers, Jarke J. van Wijk
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Skeleton-based Scagnostics (J)
Authors: José Matute, Alexandru C. Telea, Lars Linsen
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Keshif: Rapid and Expressive Tabular Data Exploration for Novices (T)
Authors: Mehmet Adil Yalcin, Niklas Elmqvist, Benjamin B Bederson
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Visual Exploration of Semantic Relationships in Neural Word Embeddings (J)
Authors: Shusen Liu, Peer-Timo Bremer, Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan, Vivek Srikumar, Bei Wang, Yarden Livnat, Valerio Pascucci
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Indexed-Points Parallel Coordinates Visualization of Multivariate Correlations (T)
Authors: Liang Zhou, Daniel Weiskopf
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4
2:00pm-3:40pm
Room: 207 LECTURE HALL
SciVis: Topology-based methods
Session Chair: Bei Wang

TopoAngler: Interactive Topology-based Extraction of Fishes (J)
Authors: Alexander Bock, Harish Doraiswamy, Adam Summers, Cláudio Silva
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Clique Community Persistence: A Topological Visual Analysis Approach for Complex Networks (J)
Authors: Bastian Rieck, Ulderico Fugacci, Jonas Lukasczyk, Heike Leitte
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The Topology ToolKit (J) (Best Paper Honorable Mention)
Authors: Julien Tierny, Guillaume Favelier, Joshua A. Levine, Charles Gueunet, Michael Michaux
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Interactive Design and Visualization of Branched Covering Spaces (J)
Authors: Lawrence Roy, Prashant Kumar, Sanaz Golbabaei, Yue Zhang, Eugene Zhang
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5
8:30am-10:10am
Room: 301-C
VAST: Visual Representation and Design Study
Session Chair: Jinwook Seo

QSAnglyzer: Visual Analytics for Prismatic Analysis of Question Answering System Evaluations (C)
Authors: Nan-Chen Chen, Been Kim
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A Visual Analytics System for Optimizing Communications in Massively Parallel Applications (C)
Authors: Takanori Fujiwara, Preeti Malakar, Khairi Reda, Venkatram Vishwanath, Michael Papka, Kwan-Liu Ma
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Visualizing Real-Time Strategy Games: The Example of StarCraft II (C)
Authors: Yan-Ting Kuan, Yu-Shuen Wang, Jung-Hong Chuang
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A Utility-aware Visual Approach for Anonymizing Multi-attribute Tabular Data (J)
Authors: Xumeng Wang, Jia-Kai Chou, Wei Chen, Huihua Guan, Wenlong Chen, Tianyi Lao, Kwan-Liu Ma
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The y of it Matters: Even for Storyline Visualization (C)
Authors: Dustin Arendt, Megan Pirrung
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5
8:30am-10:10am
Room: 301-D
InfoVis: Text and Machine Learning
Session Chair: Jaegul Choo

Extracting and Retargeting Color Mappings from Bitmap Images of Visualizations (J)
Authors: Jorge Poco, Angela Mayhua, Jeffrey Heer
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EdWordle: Consistency-preserving Word Cloud Editing (J)
Authors: Yunhai Wang, Xiaowei Chu, Chen Bao, Lifeng Zhu, Oliver Deussen, Baoquan Chen, Michael Sedlmair
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An Exploratory Study of Word-Scale Graphics in Data-Rich Text Documents (T)
Authors: Pascal Goffin, Jeremy Boy, Wesley Willett, Petra Isenberg
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Taking Word Clouds Apart: An Empirical Investigation of the Design Space for Keyword Summaries (J)
Authors: Cristian Felix, Enrico Bertini, Steven Franconeri
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LSTMVis: A Tool for Visual Analysis of Hidden State Dynamics in Recurrent Neural Networks (J)
Authors: Hendrik Strobelt, Sebastian Gehrmann, Hanspeter Pfister, Alexander M. Rush
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5
8:30am-10:10am
Room: 207 LECTURE HALL
SciVis: Visualization in Biology and Medicine
Session Chair: Tobias Isenberg

Abstractocyte: A Visual Tool for Exploring Nanoscale Astroglial Cells (J)
Authors: Haneen Mohammed, Ali K. Al-Awami, Johanna Beyer, Corrado Cali, Pierre Magistretti, Hanspeter Pfister, Markus Hadwiger
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Instant Construction and Visualization of Crowded Biological Environments (J) (Best Paper Honorable Mention)
Authors: Tobias Klein, Ludovic Autin, Barbora Kozlíková, David S. Goodsell, Arthur Olson, M. Eduard Gröller, Ivan Viola
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Decision Graph Embedding for High-Resolution Manometry Diagnosis (J)
Authors: Julian Kreiser, Alexander Hann, Eugen Zizer, Timo Ropinski
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Visualization Multi-Pipeline for Communicating Biology (J)
Authors: Peter Mindek, David Kouřil, Johannes Sorger, Daniel Toloudis, Blair Lyons, Graham Johnson, M. Eduard Gröller, Ivan Viola
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5
10:30am-12:10pm
Room: 301-C
VAST: Theory and Analysis Process
Session Chair: Melanie Tory

Beyond Tasks: An Activity Typology for Visual Analytics (J)
Authors: Darren Edge, Nathalie Henry Riche, Jonathan Larson, Christopher White
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The Role of Explicit Knowledge: A Conceptual Model of Knowledge-Assisted Visual Analytics (C)
Authors: Paolo Federico, Markus Wagner, Alexander Rind, Albert Amor-Amoros, Silvia Miksch, Wolfgang Aigner
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Warning, Bias May Occur: A Proposed Approach to Detecting Cognitive Bias in Interactive Visual Analytics (C)
Authors: Emily Wall, Leslie Blaha, Lyndsey Franklin, Alex Endert
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The Anchoring Effect in Decision-Making with Visual Analytics (C)
Authors: Isaac Cho, Ryan Wesslen, Alireza Karduni, Sashank Santhanam, Samira Shaikh, Wenwen Dou
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The Interactive Visualization Gap in Initial Exploratory Data Analysis (J)
Authors: Andrea Batch, Niklas Elmqvist
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5
10:30am-12:10pm
Room: 301-D
InfoVis: Trees and Table Tennis
Session Chair: Cagatay Turkay

iTTVis: Interactive Visualization of Table Tennis Data (J)
Authors: Yingcai Wu, Ji Lan, Xinhuan Shu, Chenyang Ji, Kejian Zhao, Jiachen Wang, Hui Zhang
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Bubble Treemaps for Uncertainty Visualization (J)
Authors: Jochen Görtler, Christoph Schulz, Daniel Weiskopf, Oliver Deussen
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Stable Treemaps via Local Moves (J)
Authors: Max Sondag, Bettina Speckmann, Kevin Verbeek
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CyteGuide: Visual Guidance for Hierarchical Single-Cell Analysis (J)
Authors: Thomas Höllt, Nicola Pezzotti, Vincent van Unen, Frits Koning, Boudewijn P.F. Lelieveldt, Anna Vilanova
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5
10:30am-12:10pm
Room: 101-ABC
CG&A: Sports Data Visual Analytics
Session Chair: Gerik Scheuermann

BKViz: A Basketball Visual Analysis Tool
Authors: Antonio G. Losada, Roberto Theron, Alejandro Benito
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Director’s Cut: Analysis and Annotation of Soccer Matches
Authors: Manuel Stein, Halldór Janetzko, Thorsten Breitkreutz, Daniel Seebacher, Tobias Schreck, Michael Grossniklaus, Iain Couzin, Daniel Keim
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Using Gap Charts to Visualize the Temporal Evolution of Ranks and Scores
Authors: Charles Perin, Jeremy Boy, Frederic Vernier
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Sport Tournament Predictions by Direct Manipulation
Authors: Romain Vuillemot, Charles Perin
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5
2:00pm-3:40pm
Room: 301-C
VAST: Interaction in the Analysis Process
Session Chair: Alex Endert

Podium: Ranking Data Using Mixed-Initiative Visual Analytics (J)
Authors: Emily Wall, Subhajit Das, Ravish Chawla, Bharath Kalidindi, Eli T. Brown, Alex Endert
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Comparing Visual-Interactive Labeling with Active Learning: An Experimental Study (J)
Authors: Jürgen Bernard, Marco Hutter, Matthias Zeppelzauer, Dieter Fellner, Michael Sedlmair
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Applying Pragmatics Principles for Interaction with Visual Analytics (J)
Authors: Enamul Hoque, Vidya Setlur, Melanie Tory, Isaac Dykeman
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Understanding the Relationship between Interactive Optimisation and Visual Analytics in the Context of Prostate Brachytherapy (J)
Authors: Jie Liu, Tim Dwyer, Kim Marriott, Jeremy Millar, Annette Haworth
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Interactive Visual Alignment of Medieval Text Versions (C)
Authors: Stefan Jänicke, David Wrisley
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5
2:00pm-3:40pm
Room: 301-D
InfoVis: Understanding Visualization
Session Chair: Arvind Satyanarayan

Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Evaluating Multidimensional Visualizations for Decision Support (J)
Authors: Evanthia Dimara, Anastasia Bezerianos, Pierre Dragicevic
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Data Through Others’ Eyes: The Impact of Visualizing Others’ Expectations on Visualization Interpretation (J)
Authors: Yea-Seul Kim, Katharina Reinecke, Jessica Hullman
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Active Reading of Visualizations (J)
Authors: Jagoda Walny, Samuel Huron, Charles Perin, Tiffany Wun, Richard Pusch, Sheelagh Carpendale
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Blinded with Science or Informed by Charts? A Replication Study (J)
Authors: Pierre Dragicevic, Yvonne Jansen
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The Explanatory Visualization Framework: An active learning framework for teaching creative computing using explanatory visualizations (J)
Authors: Jonathan C. Roberts, Panagiotis D. Ritsos, James R. Jackson, Christopher Headleand
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5
4:15pm-5:55pm
Room: 207 LECTURE HALL
VAST: Sensemaking
Session Chair: Laura McNamara

RCLens: Interactive Rare Category Exploration and Identification (T)
Authors: Hanfei Lin, Siyuan Gao, David Gotz, Fan Du, Jingrui He, Nan Cao
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EVA: Visual Analytics to Identify Fraudulent Events (J)
Authors: Roger A. Leite, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, Simone Kriglstein, Margit Pohl, Erich Gstrein, Johannes Kuntner
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Supporting Handoff in Asynchronous Collaborative Sensemaking Using Knowledge-Transfer Graphs (J) (Best Paper Honorable Mention)
Authors: Jian Zhao, Michael Glueck, Petra Isenberg, Fanny Chevalier, Azam Khan
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CRICTO: Supporting Sensemaking through Crowdsourced Information Schematization (C)
Authors: Haeyong Chung, Sai Prashanth Dasari, Santhosh Nandhakumar, Christopher Andrews
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Visual Causality Analysis Made Practical (C)
Authors: Jun Wang, Klaus Mueller
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5
4:15pm-5:55pm
Room: 301-C
VAST: ML2: Cluster Analysis
Session Chair: Tatiana von Landesberger

Visualizing Confidence in Cluster-based Ensemble Weather Forecast Analyses (J)
Authors: Alexander Kumpf, Bianca Tost, Marlene Baumgart, Michael Riemer, Rüdiger Westermann, Marc Rautenhaus
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SOMFlow: Guided Exploratory Cluster Analysis with Self-Organizing Maps and Analytic Provenance (J)
Authors: Dominik Sacha, Matthias Kraus, Jürgen Bernard, Michael Behrisch, Tobias Schreck, Yuki Asano, Daniel A. Keim
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Towards a Systematic Combination of Dimension Reduction and Clustering in Visual Analytics (J)
Authors: John Wenskovitch, Ian Crandell, Naren Ramakrishnan, Leanna House, Scotland Leman, Chris North
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Clustervision: Visual Supervision of Unsupervised Clustering (J)
Authors: Bum Chul Kwon, Ben Eysenbach, Janu Verma, Kenney Ng, Christopher deFilippi, Walter F. Stewart, Adam Perer
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5
4:15pm-5:55pm
Room: 301-D
InfoVis: Graphs and Paths
Session Chair: Cody Dunne

What Would a Graph Look Like in This Layout? A Machine Learning Approach to Large Graph Visualization (J)
Authors: Oh-Hyun Kwon, Tarik Crnovrsanin, Kwan-Liu Ma
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Revisiting Stress Majorization as a Unified Framework for Interactive Constrained Graph Visualization (J)
Authors: Yunhai Wang, Yanyan Wang, Yingqi Sun, Lifeng Zhu, Kecheng Lu, Chi-Wing Fu, Michael Sedlmair, Oliver Deussen, Baoquan Chen
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Functional Decomposition for Bundled Simplification of Trail Sets (J)
Authors: Christophe Hurter, Stéphane Puechmorel, Florence Nicol, Alexandru Telea
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Orko: Facilitating Multimodal Interaction for Visual Exploration and Analysis of Networks (J)
Authors: Arjun Srinivasan, John Stasko
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HiPiler: Visual Exploration of Large Genome Interaction Matrices with Interactive Small Multiples (J)
Authors: Fritz Lekschas, Benjamin Bach, Peter Kerpedjiev, Nils Gehlenborg, Hanspeter Pfister
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6
8:30am-10:10am
Room: 102-ABC
VAST: ML3: Classification
Session Chair: Huamin Qu

Do Convolutional Neural Networks Learn Class Hierarchy? (J)
Authors: Bilal Alsallakh, Amin Jourabloo, Mao Ye, Xiaoming Liu, Liu Ren
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Visual Diagnosis of Tree Boosting Methods (J)
Authors: Shixia Liu, Jiannan Xiao, Junlin Liu, Xiting Wang, Jing Wu, Jun Zhu
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A Workflow for Visual Diagnostics of Binary Classifiers using Instance-Level Explanations (C)
Authors: Josua Krause, Aritra Dasgupta, Jordan Swartz, Yindalon Aphinyanaphongs, Enrico Bertini
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TreePOD: Sensitivity-Aware Selection of Pareto-Optimal Decision Trees (J)
Authors: Thomas Mühlbacher, Lorenz Linhardt, Torsten Möller, Harald Piringer
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6
8:30am-10:10am
Room: 105-ABC
InfoVis: Evaluation
Session Chair: Lane Harrison

Imagining Replications: Graphical Prediction & Discrete Visualizations Improve Recall & Estimation of Effect Uncertainty (J)
Authors: Jessica Hullman, Matthew Kay, Yea-Seul Kim, Samana Shrestha
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A Systematic Review of Experimental Studies on Data Glyphs (T)
Authors: Johannes Fuchs, Petra Isenberg, Anastasia Bezerianos, Daniel Keim
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The Hologram in My Hand: How Effective is Interactive Exploration of 3D Visualizations in Immersive Tangible Augmented Reality? (J)
Authors: Benjamin Bach, Ronell Sicat, Johanna Beyer, Maxime Cordeil, Hanspeter Pfister
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Evaluating Cartogram Effectiveness (T)
Authors: Sabrina Nusrat, Muhammad Jawaherul Alam, Stephen Kobourov
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Keeping Multiple Views Consistent: Constraints, Validations, and Exceptions in Visualization Authoring (J) (Best Paper Honorable Mention)
Authors: Zening Qu, Jessica Hullman
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6
8:30am-10:10am
Room: 106-ABC
SciVis: Applications and Visual analysis
Session Chair: Torsten Möller

Multiscale Visualization and Scale-Adaptive Modification of DNA Nanostructures (J)
Authors: Haichao Miao, Elisa De Llano, Johannes Sorger, Yasaman Ahmadi, Tadija Kekic, Tobias Isenberg, M. Eduard Gröller, Ivan Barišić, Ivan Viola
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DSPCP: A Data Scalable Approach for Identifying Relationships in Parallel Coordinates (T)
Authors: Hoa Nguyen, Paul Rosen
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PETMiner – A Visual Analysis Tool for Petrophysical Properties of Core Sample Data (T)
Authors: Dave G. Harrison, Nick D. Efford, Quentin J. Fisher, Roy A. Ruddle
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StreetVizor: Visual Exploration of Human-Scale Urban Forms Based on Street Views (J)
Authors: Qiaomu Shen, Wei Zeng, Yu Ye, Stefan Müller Arisona, Simon Schubiger, Remo Burkhard, Huamin Qu
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BASTet: Shareable and reproducible analysis and visualization of mass spectrometry imaging data via OpenMSI (J)
Authors: Oliver Rübel, Benjamin P. Bowen
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