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Information Visualization Projects

We are exploring a number of innovative methods of visualizing abstract information more effectively.

Information Visualization Tutorials and Talks

Keynote talk at NVAC 2006:
Visualization: in Text Analysis Problems   ppt (6M)  

Presented at CHI 2003:
Information Visualization: Principles, Promise, and Pragmatics   ppt (8.2M)  

Presented at SIGIR 2003:
User Interfaces and Visualization for Information Access ppt (10.6M)

Information Visualization Course

• Lecture notes: 2004  2002
  
• Class projects: 2004  2002

Improving Aviation Safety with Information Visualization: A Flight Simulation Study, Cecilia Aragon and Marti Hearst, proceedings of CHI 2005.   pdf



ImproViz: Visual Explorations of Jazz Improvisations Jon Snydal and Marti Hearst, CHI 2005 Conference Companion   pdf of the paper   pdf of the poster




Animated Exploration of Graphs with Radial Layout, Ka-Ping Yee, Danyel Fisher, Rachna Dhamija, Marti Hearst, in IEEE Infovis Symposium, San Deigo, CA, October 2001.


pdf  html   Word document  postscript  QuickTime movie, 44 Mb (9 Mb zip) or
AVI movie, 25 Mb (7 Mb zip).
An additional detailed discussion on the class project that produced it: html



TileBars: Visualization of Term Distribution Information in Full Text Information Access, Marti Herast Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI), pp. 59-66, Denver, CO, May 1995. html     More information



Cat-a-Cone: An Interactive Interface for Specifying Searches and Viewing Retrieval Results using a Large Category Hierarchy , Marti Hearst and Chandu Karadi, Proceedings of the 20th Annual International ACM/SIGIR Conference Philadelphia, PA, July 1997, html     More information



User Interfaces and Visualization by M. Hearst, in Modern Information Retrieval edited by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Company, 1999. html