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General Educational Aims: This
course will give students the opportunity to familiarize themselves with principles
and systems for information visualization. Specific emphasis will be given to
- the critical discussion of the merits and demerits of various visualizations
for multivariate data and for information hierarchies,
- the ease of users'
interaction with these visualizations, and
- the recognition of commonalities
between systems and of success factors.
Specific Objective:
At the conclusion of this course, students will
-
be familiar with major research systems for the visualization of multivariate
data and information hierarchies
- realize the importance
of appropriate visualizations and the dangers of inappropriate visualizations
- realize the importance of interaction aspects when evaluating
visualizations
- be familiar with several commercial
applications
N.B.: This class does not deal with the visualization
of time, graphs (except strict hierachies), and scientific visualization. It will
concentrate on the visualization of multivariate data and of hierarchies.
Requirements: One of ICS 105, 186, 187, 205, 206, 227, 278 or 287 with a grade of B or better; otherwise consent of the instructor.
Character of the course: seminar with readings, presentations, software demonstrations, lots of discussion, and possibly a final essay.
Time and location: T Th 9:30-10:50 Rm 100 ICS2 (HCI Lab)
Readings:
Required: Conference
and journal articles collected in
[CMS]: Stuart
K. Card, Jock D. Mackinlay and Ben Shneiderman, eds. (1999): Readings in Information
Visualization: Using Vision to Think.
San
Francisco, CA: Moran Kaufmann Publishers. ISBN 1558605339.
[InfoVis]:
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposia on Information Visualization
[Ecomm]:
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM conference on Electronic Commerce October 17 - 20,
2000, Minneapolis, MN USA
[W]: Colin
Ware: Information Visualization: Perception for Design. Academic Press, ISBN 1-55860-511-8
Optional:
Robert Spence (2001):
Information Visualization. Addison-Wesley and ACM Press.
Chaomei
Chen (1999): Information Visualisation and Virtual Environments. London, New York
: Springer. ISBN 1852331364
Grading:
75% for 3 presentations (or 2 presentations and one essay)
25%
for in-class participation
Efficient reading: see here
Cheating: see http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ucounsel/continuing_students/cheat.html
ICS Deadlines: Adding this course: 3 weeks ??
Dropping this course: 6 weeks ??
Course Notes: click on individual topics
below
Office hours: MW 2-3 p.m.in my office (Rm. CS 430C). Contact me in class or send email beforehand.
| 280 Advanced Topics in Data Mining |
| 205 Human-Computer Interaction |
Course
structure:
| Date | Topic | Discussion Chair | Source |
| 4/9 | Overview of Information Visualization I | CMS, 1-27 | |
| 4/11 | Overview of Information Visualization II | Salvador Ledezma | CMS, 1-27 |
| 4/16 | •
D. Keim, H.-P. Kriegel: VisDB: Database Exploration Using Multidimensional Visualiz. • D. Keim, Ming C. Hao, Umesh Dayal, Meichun Hsu: Pixel bar charts: a visualization technique for very large multi-attributes data sets | Jeff Ridenour | CMS 126-139 |
| 4/18 | C. Stolte, P. Hanrahan: Polaris: A System for Query, Analysis and Visualization of Multi-dimensional Relational Databases | Andrew Trieu | InfoVis'00 (here) |
| 4/23 | A. Inselberg: Multidimensional Detective | Yimeng Dou | CMS 107-114 |
| 4/25 | PBC Software (Java) [contact: mihael.ankerst at boeing.com] | Salvador Ledezma | here |
| 4/30 | No class (will give a visualization talk at Boeing) | ||
| 5/02 | • R. Rao, S. Card: The Table
Lens: Merging Graphical and Symbolic Representations in an Interactive Focus+Context
Visualization for Tabular Information | Daniel Loewus-Deitch | CMS 343-349 CMS 597-615 here |
| 5/07 | InfoZoom Software (Windows; evaluation version limited to one month) | Andrew Trieu | |
| 5/09 | • C.
Ahlberg, B. Shneiderman: Visual Information Seeking: Tight Coupling of Dynamic
Query Filters with Starfield Displays | Jeff Ridenour | CMS 244-250 |
| 5/14 | •
B. Johnson, B. Shneiderman: Tree-Maps: A Space-Filling Approach to the Visualization
of Hierarchical Information Structures | Daniel Loewus-Deitch | CMS 152-159 |
| 5/16 | •
J. van Wijk, H. van de Wetering: Cushion Treemaps: Visualization of Hierarchical
Information | Yimeng Dou | |
5/21 | •
B. Sheiderman: Dynamic Queries for Visual Information Seeking • S. Eick: Data Visualization Sliders | Yimeng Dou | CMS 236-243 CMS 251-252 |
| 5/23 | •
Demonstration of experiments • H. Kumar, C. Plaisant, B. Shneiderman: Browsing Hierarchical Data with Multi-Level Dynamic Queries and Pruning | Justin
Ho, Roger Chien | CMS 295-305 |
| 5/28 | B. Bederson, J. Hollan: Pad++: A Zooming Graphical Interface for Exploring Alternate
Inteface Physics | Daniel
Loewus-Deitch Jeff Ridenour | CMS
530-543 |
| 5/30 | Applications and Implications | CMS 625-640 | |
| 6/04 | No class (will be at NSF) | ||
| 6/06 | E. Callahan, J. Koenemann: A Comparative
Usability Evaluation of User Interfaces for Online Product Catalogs | Andrew Trieu | EC2000 (here) |
(*) This article must only be read by the discussion chair, not by
the whole class