Interactive Visualizations: Design, Technologies, and Applications

A special issue of Informatics (ISSN 2227-9709).

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Department of Computer Science, Swansea University, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
Interests: data visualization; scientific visualization; information visualization; visual analytics
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Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Information & Media Studies, Western University, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada
Interests: computer science; information science; design; human-computer interaction; visualization; cognition, learning, and motivation sciences
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This special issue of the Informatics journal welcomes submissions on the topics of information visualization, visual analytics, scientific visualization, mathematical visualization, and visual reasoning. The emphasis of this special issue is interactive visualizations. This exciting and vibrant field is an increasingly important research area due to its wide range of applications in many disciplines. In general, our ability to collect, store, and archive data vastly exceeds our ability to derive useful knowledge and insight from it. This is a ubiquitous problem. By exploiting the human visual system, visualization is key to an understanding of phenomena by externalizing patterns and relationships in large, complex data sets and information spaces. Interacting with visualizations enhances their utility, allowing a greater degree of reasoning with information. This special issue welcomes applications, design, theory, and models and frameworks of interactive visualizations and visual analytics. We encourage authors to submit their original research articles, work in progress, surveys, reviews, and viewpoint articles in this field. Some sample topics include (but are not limited to):

  • Visual Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery
  • Visual Representation and Interaction
  • Human-Centered Interactive Visualizations
  • Interactivity of Visualizations
  • Interaction with Visual Information
  • Foundations of Interactive Visual Analysis
  • Display and Interaction Technology
  • Databases and visualization, Visual Data Mining
  • Graph Visualization
  • Geospatial Visualization
  • Internet, Web and Security Visualization
  • Software Visualization
  • Information Visualization
  • Visual and Analytical Reasoning
  • Hardware-Assisted Visualization
  • High-dimensional Data and Dimensionality Reduction
  • Text and Document Visualization
  • Interpretation and Evaluation Methods
  • Knowledge-assisted Visualization
  • Large Data Visualization
  • Perception and Cognition in Visualization
  • Visualization Applications
  • Interactive Visualization Taxonomies and Models
  • Visualization Algorithms and Technologies
  • Visualization Tools for Simulation and Modeling
  • Time-dependent Visualization
  • Usability Studies and Visualization
  • Glyph-based Visualization
  • Collaborative Visualization
  • Coordinated and Multiple Views
  • Biomedical Visualization and Applications
  • Visual Health and Medical Informatics
  • Flow Visualization
  • GPU-based Visualization
  • Image/Video Summarization and Visualization
  • Multi-field Visualization
  • Parallel Visualization
  • Uncertainty Visualization
  • Vector/Tensor Field Visualization
  • Virtual Environments and Data Visualization
  • Volume Visualization
  • Visualization Systems

Dr. Robert S. Laramee
Dr. Kamran Sedig
Guest Editors

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Analyzing Spatiotemporal Anomalies through Interactive Visualization
by Tao Zhang, Qi Liao, Lei Shi and Weishan Dong
Informatics 2014, 1(1), 100-125; https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics1010100 - 03 Jun 2014
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As we move into the big data era, data grows not just in size, but also in complexity, containing a rich set of attributes, including location and time information, such as data from mobile devices (e.g., smart phones), natural disasters (e.g., earthquake and [...] Read more.
As we move into the big data era, data grows not just in size, but also in complexity, containing a rich set of attributes, including location and time information, such as data from mobile devices (e.g., smart phones), natural disasters (e.g., earthquake and hurricane), epidemic spread, etc. We are motivated by the rising challenge and build a visualization tool for exploring generic spatiotemporal data, i.e., records containing time location information and numeric attribute values. Since the values often evolve over time and across geographic regions, we are particularly interested in detecting and analyzing the anomalous changes over time/space. Our analytic tool is based on geographic information system and is combined with spatiotemporal data mining algorithms, as well as various data visualization techniques, such as anomaly grids and anomaly bars superimposed on the map. We study how effective the tool may guide users to find potential anomalies through demonstrating and evaluating over publicly available spatiotemporal datasets. The tool for spatiotemporal anomaly analysis and visualization is useful in many domains, such as security investigation and monitoring, situation awareness, etc. Full article
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