Granularities of Dispersion and Materiality. Visualizing a Photo Archive about the Jewish Diaspora
Finding evocative and sensitive digital representations for cultural heritage collections requires careful implementation and collaboration, encompassing data modeling, cataloging, ideation and prototyping. In this article, we present …
Inflecting Data Visualizations for Web-based Scrollytelling
We propose the idea of inflections as a method for capturing and conveying interpretative interactions with data visualizations. Aiming to narrow the gap between data analysis and story authoring, inflections are subtle modulations of a …
Fluidly Revealing Information: A Survey of Un/foldable Data Visualizations
Revealing relevant information on demand is an essential requirement for visual data exploration. In this state-of-the-art report, we review and classify techniques that are inspired by the physical metaphor of un/folding to reveal relevant …
Critical Interactivity: Exploration and Narration in Data Visualization
We propose critical interactivity as a concept to study and design the dynamic and transitory aspects of data visualizations. Theoretically, interactivity is often described as the means to support analytical tasks, while in practice, it encompasses …
Towards Collective Storytelling: Investigating Audience Annotations in Data Visualizations
This work investigates personal perspectives in visualization annotations as devices for collective data-driven storytelling. Inspired by existing efforts in critical cartography, we show how people share personal memories in a visualization of …
Complexity as Design Material
Complexity is often seen as a inherent negative in information design, with the job of the designer being to reduce or eliminate complexity, and with principles like Tufte’s “data-ink ratio” or “chartjunk” to operationalize minimalism and simplicity …
Discursive Patinas: Anchoring Discussions in Data Visualizations
This paper presents discursive patinas, a technique to visualize discussions onto data visualizations, inspired by how people leave traces in the physical world. While data visualizations are widely discussed in online communities and social media, …
Tracing and Telling: Exploring collection holdings through graph-based narratives
Cultural collections have transcended the boundaries of physical showcases and storage cabinets, evolving into intricate digital webs of interconnected data. The research project Restaging Fashion aimed to expand the possibilities for experiencing …
From shock to shift: Data visualization for constructive climate journalism
We present a multi-dimensional, multi-level, and multi-channel approach to data visualization for the purpose of constructive climate journalism. Data visualization has assumed a central role in environmental journalism and is often used in data …
A Contemporary Nolli Map: Using OpenStreetMap Data to Represent Urban Public Spaces
More than 250 years ago, Giovanni Battista Nolli, an Italian architect, engineer and cartographer, was concerned with how and where space is or is not publicly accessible. In his map ‘La nuova topografia di Roma Comasco’, he mapped publicly …
From Sketching to Coding: Visualization as a Thinking Process
This workshop will explore strategies for teaching visualization literacy – from sketching to creating visualizations using computational tools. Led by instructors from the humanities, visual analytics, design, and computer science, sessions will …
“The research is happening in the text fields” – Are Linked Open Data and Art History a good match?
This contribution explores the instructive tensions between art-historical research and semantic data modeling. While the potential of LOD-applications is obvious in terms of standardization and precision some aspects of research may not be formally …
Data Stories of Water: Studying the Communicative Role of Data Visualizations within Long-form Journalism
We present a methodology for making sense of the communicative role of data visualizations in journalistic storytelling and share findings from surveying water-related data stories. Data stories are a genre of long-form journalism that integrate …
Unfolding Edges: Adding Context to Edges in Multivariate Graph Visualization
Existing work on visualizing multivariate graphs is primarily concerned with representing the attributes of nodes. Even though edges are the constitutive elements of networks, there have been only few attempts to visualize attributes of edges. In …
Data Journalism as “Terra Incognita”: Newcomers’ Tensions in Shifting Towards Data Journalism Epistemology
This article investigates data journalism epistemology through Michel Foucault’s definition of power. The growing demand for data-savvy reporters with computational skills has been proven to shift the newsrooms’ culture in media companies across the …
Attitudinal effects of data visualizations and illustrations in data stories
Journalism has become more data-driven and inherently visual in recent years. Photographs, illustrations, infographics, data visualizations, and general images help convey complex topics to a wide audience. The way that visual artifacts influence …
Sensing What’s New: Considering Ethics When Using Sensor Data in Journalistic Practices
As data are becoming increasingly central to journalistic practice, a number of technology-driven approaches are emerging among data journalists. This article focuses on sensor journalism, which brings new practical and ethical concerns to …
Disclosure as a critical-feminist design practice for Web-based data stories
We present findings from design research on disclosure at the intersection of data visualization, digital storytelling, and feminism. While there is an increased awareness of power structures in data science, computing, and design, there is little …
Data Montage: Towards Coherence in Multimodal Data Representation
Drawing from the history of theatre and cinema, we present theoretical research on multi-modal data representations, such as sonifications, edibilizations, olfactations, and physicalizations. We contribute to digital humanities by …
Kleidung im Bild. Kontextualisierung und Verzahnung als Methode der vestimentären Forschung
Im Fokus des aktuellen Forschungs- und Digitalisierungsvorhabens Restaging Fashion steht die Kontextualisierung von bislang unpublizierten Bildquellen zur Geschichte von Kleidung, Mode und Kostüm aus der Sammlung von Franz und Frieda von …
Graph Technologies for the Analysis of Historical Social Networks Using Heterogeneous Data Sources
Over the last decades, cultural heritage institutions have provided extensive machine-readable data, such as bibliographic and archival metadata, full-text collections, and authority records containing multitudes of implicit and explicit statements …
Digitale Kontextualisierung und Visualisierung der Quellen-Trias Bild-TextRealia zu historischer Kleidung, ihrer Ausformung, Zeichenhaftigkeit und Dreidimensionalität
Kleidung, Tracht und Mode kommunizieren die Vorstellung des Trägers von Schönheit, Status, Körper, Form, sozialer Hierarchie und religiöser Zugehörigkeit, kurz: die Identität des Trägers. Die Informationen in den historischen Quellen zur Kleidung, …
Was sehe ich? Visualisierungsstrategien für Datentransparenz in der Historischen Netzwerkanalyse
Die Historische Netzwerkanalyse (HNA) hat sich zu einem etablierten Forschungsfeld entwickelt. Zu ihren wichtigsten methodischen Herausforderungen gehört die Suggestionskraft von Visualisierungen. Die Transparenz bezüglich der Datenquellen ist daher …
Von der Wolke zum Pfad: Visuelle und assoziative Exploration zweier kultureller Sammlungen
Die in den letzten Jahren entstandenen explorativen Visualisierungen musealer Sammlungen widmen sich zumeist einzelnen Sammlungen, welche oft einer spezifischen Systematik folgen und eine geringe Vielfalt an Objektgattungen und Attributen aufweisen. …
Climate change scenario services: From science to facilitating action
The goal of limiting global warming to well below 2°C as set out in the Paris Agreement calls for a strategic assessment of societal pathways and policy strategies. Besides policy makers, new powerful actors from the private sector, including …
Ikonizität der Information – Die Erkenntnisfunktion struktureller und gestalteter Bildlichkeit in der digitalen Wissensorganisation
Die vorliegende Dissertation „Ikonizität der Information“ befasst sich mit der ikonischen Dimension von Wissensorganisationssystemen (WOS) und dem epistemischen Potenzial von Bildlichkeit im Bereich des digitalen Kulturerbes. Dabei bezieht sich die …
Categorizing Queer Identities: An Analysis of Archival Practices Using the Concept of Boundary Objects
In this paper, we present a field study that examines the development, application and maintenance of classification systems and controlled vocabularies in three archives documenting lesbian, trans* and queer-feminist histories. Queer archives face …
Infrastructure as digital tools and knowledge practices: Connecting the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin with Amazonian Indigenous Communities
This paper shares experiences with digital tools in the context of ethnological collections and discusses the challenges of accommodating different knowledge practices in collaboration with heritage communities. Departing from the Sharing Knowledge …
Dieses kleine Buch ist für dich
Wenn wir eine neue Sprache lernen, stoßen wir auf viele neue grammatikalische Begriffe: Artikel, Modalverb, Nominativ, Partizip, und so weiter. Dieses kleine Buch verwendet daher ein visuelles System, um dir die deutsche Grammatik und ihre Begriffe …
I/O Bits: User-Driven, Situated, and Dedicated Self-Tracking
We present I/O Bits, a prototype personal informatics system that explores the potential for user-driven and situated self-tracking. With simple tactile inputs and small e-paper visualizations, I/O Bits are dedicated physical devices that allow …
Unfolding Edges for Exploring Multivariate Edge Attributes in Graphs
With this research we present an approach to network visualization that expands the capabilities for visual encoding and interactive exploration through edges in node-link diagrams. Compared to the various possibilities for visual and interactive …
Topography of Violence: Considerations for Ethical and Collaborative Visualization Design
Based on a collaborative visualization design process involving sensitive historical data and historiographical expertise, we investigate the relevance of ethical principles in visualization design. While fundamental ethical norms like truthfulness …
Unravelling the Human Perspective and Considerations for Urban Data Visualization
Effective use of data is an essential asset to modern cities. Visualization as a tool for analysis, exploration, and communication has become a driving force in the task of unravelling our complex urban fabrics. This paper outlines the findings from …
Kleiderwirklichkeit und Bildfindungen im 19. Jahrhundert. Ihre Nachnutzung und Transformation im musealen Kontext
Ausgehend von den beiden Illustrationen zur Bekleidung eines Oberösterreichischen Bauern und einer Bauersfrau aus der Bauernkriegszeit, deren materielle und visuelle Quellen des Grafikers Alois Greil hier rekonstruiert werden konnten, entwickelte …
Relational Perspectives as Situated Visualizations of Art Collections
With relational perspectives, we examine the potential of traversing cultural collections along the richness of individual facets and relations through the process of developing an exploration-centered visualization. Cultural collections can contain …
The Public Life of Data: Investigating Reactions to Visualizations on Reddit
This research investigates how people engage with data visualizations when commenting on the social platform Reddit. There has been considerable research on collaborative sensemaking with visualizations and the personal relation of people with data. …
Bildkosmos der Moden: Die Gemäldesammlung von Franz und Frieda von Lipperheide
The collection of the Berlin publishers Franz and Frieda von Lipperheide, comprising more than 600 paintings, miniatures and reliefs, is part of an extensive and unique compendium of sources depicting the various forms of fashion, traditional …
Co-Designing Visualizations for Information Seeking and Knowledge Management
Creativity is a crucial factor in finding novel and useful visualization and interaction techniques, but its emergence is contingent on the right conditions. The focus of visualization research has traditionally been on techniques, and to a lesser …
Iconicity as Simultaneous Plurality. Beyond the Restraints of Formal Knowledge Organization Systems
In this paper the relevance of Charles Sanders Peirce’s work in the realm of digital knowledge organization (KO) as a contribution to the challenges of the knowledge or information society is demonstrated. In particular his groundbreaking ideas …
The Close-up Cloud: Visualizing Details of Image Collections in Dynamic Overviews
This paper introduces a visualization technique designed to uncover iconographic patterns prevalent within a collection while at the same time allowing close viewing of these particular details. Challenging an institutionalized understanding of …
Zwischen Distanz und Nähe. Formen der Betrachtung und Bewegung in (digitalen) Sammlungen
Digitale Sammlungen besitzen den Anspruch, die Sammlung in ihrer Gesamtheit zu veröffentlichen; sie entstammen ursprünglich intern erstellten und genutzten Datensätzen aus einem abgeschlossenen Sammlungsfundus; sie zeigen die Objekte nicht im …
A Visual System for Grammar Instruction in Foreign Language Learning
Complementary to verbal explanations, visual techniques are often implemented in grammar instruction to help learners process information. Highlighting using typograhic features can help distinguish the structure in focus from its context, aiding …
The Fold: Rethinking Interactivity in Data Visualization
We propose the philosophical notion of the fold as an evocative vocabulary for the design and critique of interactive data visualizations. An expanding range of application areas, such as digital art history and literary studies, illustrates the …
Reading Traces: Scalable Exploration in Elastic Visualizations of Cultural Heritage Data
Through a design study, we develop an approach to data exploration that utilizes elastic visualizations designed to support varying degrees of detail and abstraction. Examining the notions of scalability and elasticity in interactive visualizations, …
Ikonizität als Erkenntnismittel – Vollständigkeit, Verständlichkeit und Kontextualisierung als Grundprinzipien der Visualisierung
Das hohe Aufkommen und die vermehrte Relevanz digitaler Information haben den Bereich der Erschließung, Organisation und Vermittlung von Wissen nachhaltig verändert. Vilém Flusser wies bereits 1978 auf das „Ansteigen der Wichtigkeit von …
Visuelle Exploration zweier musealer Sammlungen
Die Neukonzeption der Online-Sammlungen der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin ist eines der wichtigsten und umfassendsten Projekte innerhalb des Teilprojekts Visitor Journeys neu gedacht. Ziel ist es, die Objekte der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin auch im …
Die Falte: Ein Denkraum für interaktive und kritische Datenvisualisierungen
Wir schlagen den philosophischen Begriff der Falte als Denkraum für die Gestaltung und Interpretation interaktiver Datenvisualisierungen vor. Visualisierungen geisteswissenschaftlicher Sammlungen bieten spannende Möglichkeiten für interaktive …
SoNAR (IDH): Datenschnittstellen für historische Netzwerkanalyse
In diesem anwendungsbezogenen Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprojekt werden systematisch forschungsorientiert das Aufbereiten, Bereitstellen und Analysieren von Massendaten für den Aufbau einer Forschungstechnologie für die Historische …
Participatory Deep Maps: Towards Discursive User Engagement With Data Visualizations
This paper introduces the concept of deep participatory maps, an approach to democratizing the way local knowl- edge is collected, shared, and discussed using interactive data visualizations. While geovisualizations provide a useful frame of …
Narrelations — Visualizing Narrative Levels and their Correlations with Temporal Phenomena
We present findings from interdisciplinary research at the intersection between literary studies, information visualization, and interface design. Despite a growing interest in text visualization among literary scholars, so far, narrative …
Close-Up Cloud: Gaining A Sense Of Overview From Many Details
After two decades of steady increases in image resolution through technical advances in image sensors, we are now also witnessing a significant growth in comprehensively tagged image collections. Concurrently cultural institutions have been …
Relational Perspectives as Situated Visualizations of Art Collections
With relational perspectives we explore the potential of a new type of approach for the exploration of cultural collections. Cultural collections can contain thousands of artifacts, of which each typically possesses a diverse set of properties …
Scalable Exploration. Prototype Study For The Visualization Of An Author’s Library On The Example Of ‘Theodor Fontane’s Library’.
This article presents a prototype for the explorable and scalable visualization of an author’s library and its reading traces. It aims to combine design-oriented approaches to the visualization of cultural collections with philological, archival and …
Skalierbare Exploration. Prototypenstudie zur Visualisierung einer Autorenbibliothek am Beispiel der ›Handbibliothek Theodor Fontanes‹
Der Beitrag stellt einen vom Theodor-Fontane-Archiv der Universität Potsdam in Kooperation mit der Fachhochschule Potsdam entwickelten Prototyp zur explorier- und skalierbaren Visualisierung einer Autor*innenbibliothek und der darin enthaltenen …
Density of Knowledge Organization Systems
In this paper the category of density is introduced as a parameter for the measurement of the level of semantic contextualization of Knowledge Organization Systems. Based on previous research regarding the detailedness of description on a metadata …
Zwischen Repräsentation und Rezeption – Visualisierung als Facette von Analyse und Argumentation in der Kunstgeschichte
Digitale Technologien verändern nicht nur die Rezeptionsmöglichkeiten musealer Bestände im Kontext von digitalen Ausstellungen und Vermittlung, sie haben gleichzeitig zu einer methodischen Erweiterung geisteswissenschaftlicher Forschung beigetragen. …
Mapping governance of adaptation to climate change in Switzerland
Climate change severely affects Alpine regions. Adaptation to climate change is needed in order to deal with these impacts, but the implementation of national adaptation strategies is inhibited by multiple obstacles. Regional strategic frameworks …
Shifted Maps: Revealing spatio-temporal topologies in movement data
We present a hybrid visualization technique that integrates maps into network visualizations to reveal and analyze diverse topologies in geospatial movement data. With the rise of GPS tracking in various contexts such as smartphones and vehicles …
Off the Grid: Visualizing a Numismatic Collection as Dynamic Piles and Streams
This research explores the merit of alternative arrangements of cultural artifacts to expose the aesthetic abundance of a cultural collection. The conventional display of museum objects in online interfaces tends to neglect the physical gestalt of …
Visualization of Cultural Heritage Collection Data: State of the Art and Future Challenges
After decades of digitization, large cultural heritage collections have emerged on the web, which contain massive stocks of content from galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. This increase in digital cultural heritage data promises new modes …
Die bibliografischen Daten der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek entfalten
Wie sieht die Zukunft der Recherche in digitalen Bibliothekskatalogen aus? Wie können umfangreiche und heterogene Sammlungsbestände mit Hilfe von Datenvisualisierungen besser zugänglich gemacht werden? Kann man durch eine digitale Bibliothek …
Zur Weiterentwicklung des “cognition support”: Sammlungsvisualisierungen als Austragungsort kritisch- kulturwissenschaftlicher Forschung
Interfaces und Methoden der Informationsvisualisierung dienen insbesondere in Bezug auf abstrakte und komplexe Gegenstände der Unterstützung, Verstärkung und Augmentierung der menschlichen Kognition (Arias-Hernandez et al., 2012). Sammlungen des …
Der Sammlung gerecht werden: Kritisch-generative Methoden zur Konzeption experimenteller Visualisierungen
Das Versprechen hinter Digitalisierungsprojekten in sammelnden Institutionen ist oft die Erweiterung des Zugangs zum kulturellen Erbe, sei es für die Forschung oder im Sinne der Vermittlung. Bei kritischer Betrachtung fast aller …
One view is not enough: High-level visualizations of a large cultural collection
As cultural institutions are digitizing their artifacts and interlinking their collections, new opportunities emerge to engage with cultural heritage. However, it is the often comprehensive and complex nature of collections that can make it …
Psychogeography in the Age of the Quantified Self—Mental Map Modelling with Georeferenced Personal Activity Data
Personal and subjective perceptions of urban space have been a focus of various research projects in the area of cartography, geography, and related fields such as urban planning. This paper illustrates how personal georeferenced activity data can …
Memory Dialogue – Exploring Artefact-Based Memory Sharing
With the proliferation of personal and social computing there is an increased interest in the field of human-computer interaction to support people’s memory practises. Yet, there is only a limited understanding of the role of artefacts in the social …
Tracing exploratory modes in digital collections of museum websites using reverse information architecture
Museums are broadening their program beyond the physical institutions by providing digital collections online. In digital collections, objects are prepared and presented particularly for the Web and the ambition is to provide the entirety of a …
Past Visions and Reconciling Views: Visualizing Time, Texture and Themes in Cultural Collections
We present a case study on visualizing a collection of historic drawings along its metadata structure while also allowing for close examination of the artifacts’ texture. With regards to the specific character of cultural heritage at the …
Von sammlungsspezifischen Visualisierungen zu nachnutzbaren Werkzeugen
Die Entwicklung digitaler Werkzeuge lässt sich als wichtiger Teilbereich in den Digital Humanities identifizieren (Davis und Kräutli 2015; Schnapp et al. 2009). Entsprechende Forschung und Projektarbeit steht dabei komplexen Herausforderungen …
Museale Bestände im Web: Eine Untersuchung von acht digitalen Sammlungen
Museen erweitern ihr Vermittlungsangebot immer mehr über die physische Einrichtung hinaus, u.a. durch die Bereitstellung Digitaler Sammlungen im Web. Digitale Sammlungen zeichnen sich dadurch aus, dass die in ihnen gezeigten Objekte speziell für …
Visualizing the spatiality in fictional narratives
This work is part of ongoing research on the visualization of spatial relationships in fictional works. Our aim is to arrive at aesthetic representations of fictional narratives set in actual places such as cities. Novel City Maps offers two map …
Staged Analysis: From Evocative to Comparative Visualizations of Urban Mobility
In this paper we examine the concept of staged analysis through a case study on visualizing urban mobility exhibited in a public gallery space. Recently, many cities introduced bike-sharing in order to promote cycling among locals and visitors. We …
Linking structure, texture and context in a visualization of historical drawings by Frederick William IV (1795-1861)
In this article we present a case study on digital representation of the art historical research and metadata brought together for a scientific collection catalogue by the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg. The resulting …
Rewiring science-policy with visual information design
Shanghai Metro Flow
One of the main characteristics of cities is the large amount of people moving around. These flows are reflected in all the subways dashing through the city. With our work we strive to give an impression of this pulse of the city. We present …
Culturegraphy
Culturegraphy visualizes the exchange of cultural information over time. Treating cultural works as nodes and influences as directed edges the visualization of these cultural networks can provide new insights into the rich interconnections of …
Emosaic: Visualisierung von Emotionen in Texten durch Farbumwandlung zur Analyse und Exploration
Das computergestützte Extrahieren und Visualisieren von Emotionen in Texten ist eine etablierte Technik des “Distant Reading”. Die generelle Stimmung eines Textes kann schnell erfasst werden ohne den gesamten Text lesen zu müssen. Da Emotionen sehr …
Archival Liveness: Designing with Collections Before and During Cataloguing and Digitization
We present “archival liveness” as a concept in design and the Digital Humanities and describe its development within a Research Through Design process. Working with a newly acquired archive of contemporary poetry we produced designs that both …
Making three Cases for Casual Geovisualizations on Interactive Surfaces
In this paper, we present three case studies on visualizing spatiotemporal data on interactive tabletops and surfaces for casual use. While there is a growing interest among citizens to make sense of their social community and urban environment, …
Museum im Display. Visualisierung kultureller Sammlungen (VIKUS)
Im Rückgriff auf Ausstellungspraktiken im Museum stellt der Artikel Bezüge zwischen Erkenntnissen aus der Visualisierungsforschung und der Rezeption von Museumssammlungen in einem Ausstellungsdisplay her. Besondere Beachtung finden hierbei Makro- …
Probing Projections: Interaction Techniques for Interpreting Arrangements and Errors of Dimensionality Reductions
We introduce a set of integrated interaction techniques to interpret and interrogate dimensionality-reduced data. Projection techniques generally aim to make a high-dimensional information space visible in form of a planar layout. However, the …
Micro Visualizations: Data-driven typography and graphical text enhancement
At the intersection of information visualization and typography lies the design space of micro visualization, a family of basic techniques enriching text in regard of its accessibility, comprehensibility, and memorability. We propose a taxonomy that …
Are there networks in maps? An experimental visualization of personal movement data
Shifted Maps proposes a novel visualization method to generate personal geovisualizations of individual movement data. The resulting visual appearance can be characterized as a map network consisting of visited places and their connections. The …
Visualising the »Un-seen«: Towards Critical Approaches and Strategies of Inclusion in Digital Cultural Heritage Interfaces
In recent years, access to cultural heritage has been closely connected to digitisation. We argue the case for recognising this digital shift as an opportunity to create interfaces to cultural heritage that are, first of all, more inviting to the …
WordWanderer: A Navigational Approach to Text Visualisation
Text visualisations provide visual representations of documents or small corpora with the primary aim of supporting language analysis. We are interested in developing a more playful approach to language that can be characterised by the notion of …
Traffic Origins: A Simple Visualization Technique to Support Traffic Incident Analysis
Traffic incidents such as road accidents and vehicle breakdowns are a major source of travel uncertainty and delay, but the mechanism by which they cause heavy traffic is not fully understood. Traffic management controllers are tasked with routing …
Visual Filter: Graphical Exploration of Network Security Log Files
Network log files often need to be investigated manually for suspicious activity. The huge amount of log lines complicates maintaining an overview, navigation and quick pattern identification. We propose a system that uses an interactive …
Weaving a Carpet from Log Entries: a Network Security Visualization Built with Co-Creation
We created a pixel map for multi-variate data based on an analysis of the needs of network security engineers. Parameters of a log record are shown as pixels and these pixels get stacked to represent a record. This allows a broad view of a data set …
Isoscope — Visualizing temporal mobility variance with isochrone maps
Isochrone maps are an established method to depict areas of equal travel time, and have been used in transportation planning since the early 20th century. In recent years, interactive isochrone maps allowed users to select areas of interest, or …
Culturegraphy — Visualizing Cultural Network Dynamics
Culturegraphy visualizes cultural information exchange over time. Treating cultural works as nodes and influences as directed edges, the visualization of these cultural networks can provide new insights into the rich interconnections of cultural …
Touching Transport – A Case Study on Visualizing Metropolitan Public Transit on Interactive Tabletops
Due to recent technical developments, urban systems generate large and complex data sets. While visualizations have been used to make these accessible, often they are tailored to one specific group of users, typically the public or expert users. We …
Monadic Exploration: Seeing the Whole Through Its Parts
Monadic exploration is a new approach to interacting with relational information spaces that challenges the distinction between the whole and its parts. Building on the work of sociologists Gabriel Tarde and Bruno Latour we turn to the concept of …
Exploring the Promises and Potentials of Visual Archive Interfaces
A photo archive contains diverse narratives that only get partially exposed in digital interfaces. In this paper we explore a potential framework for archivists and designers to create photo archive interfaces that are sensitive to the ethos and …
Visually Exploring Books Along Their Subject Headings
We present a visualization of subject headings that typically accompany books as flat textual metadata. The purpose of the visualization is twofold: first to expose the implicit structure in subject headings as an overview of a library collection …
A Visual Survey of Arc Diagrams
Surveys are a common way of providing an overview over a family of visualization techniques. In this poster we focused on arc diagrams, which are an established method to visualize relations between nodes in a simple path graph, and are laid out in …
Unfolding — A Library for Interactive Maps
Visualizing data with geo-spatial properties has become more important and prevalent due to the wide spread dissemination of devices, sensors, databases, and services with references to the physical world. Yet, with existing tools it is often …
Indexicality and Visualization: Exploring Analogies with Art, Cinema and Photography
In this paper we offer a critical discussion of data visualization by adapting theories of indexicality as discussed in semiotics and art history. An indexical statement is broadly one whose meaning is dependent on context. We examine how …
Critical InfoVis: Exploring the Politics of Visualization
As information visualization is increasingly used to raise awareness about social issues, difficult questions arise about the power of visualization. So far the research community has not given sufficient thought to how values and assumptions …
Accentuating Visualization Parameters to Guide Exploration
We present a new method for displaying visualization parameters to guide casual data exploration. When visualizing datasets with large parameter spaces it can be difficult to move between data views. Building on social navigation and …