• Evaluating 2D Flow Visualization Using Eye Tracking 

  Ho, Hsin-Yang; Yeh, I-Cheng; Lai, Yu-Chi; Lin, Wen-Chieh; Cherng, Fu-Yin (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015)

  Flow visualization is recognized as an essential tool for many scientific research fields and different visualization approaches are proposed. Several studies are also conducted to evaluate their effectiveness but these ...

• Visualization of Coherent Structures of Light Transport 

  Zirr, Tobias; Ament, Marco; Dachsbacher, Carsten (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015)

  Inspired by vector field topology, an established tool for the extraction and identification of important features of flows and vector fields, we develop means for the analysis of the structure of light transport. For that, ...

• Vector Field Visualization of Advective-Diffusive Flows 

  Hochstetter, Hendrik; Wurm, Maximilian; Kolb, Andreas (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015)

  We propose a framework for unified visualization of advective and diffusive concentration fluxes, which play a key role in many phenomena like, e.g. Marangoni convection and microscopic mixing. The main idea is the ...

• Finite-Time Mass Separation for Comparative Visualizations of Inertial Particles 

  Günther, Tobias; Theisel, Holger (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015)

  The visual analysis of flows with inertial particle trajectories is a challenging problem because time-dependent particle trajectories additionally depend on mass, which gives rise to an infinite number of possible ...

• Towards a Smooth Design Process for Static Communicative Node-link Diagrams 

  Suslik Spritzer, Andre; Boy, Jeremy; Dragicevic, Pierre; Fekete, Jean-Daniel; Dal Sasso Freitas, Carla Maria (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015)

  Node-link infographics are visually very rich and can communicate messages effectively, but can be very difficult to create, often involving a painstaking and artisanal process. In this paper we present an investigation ...

• GraphUnit: Evaluating Interactive Graph Visualizations Using Crowdsourcing 

  Okoe, Mershack; Jianu, Radu (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015)

  We present GraphUnit, a framework and online service that automates the process of designing, running and analyzing results of controlled user studies of graph visualizations by leveraging crowdsourcing and a set of ...

• Persistent Homology for the Evaluation of Dimensionality Reduction Schemes 

  Rieck, Bastian; Leitte, Heike (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015)

  High-dimensional data sets are a prevalent occurrence in many application domains. This data is commonly visualized using dimensionality reduction (DR) methods. DR methods provide e.g. a two-dimensional embedding of the ...

• Map-based Visualizations Increase Recall Accuracy of Data 

  Saket, Bahador; Scheidegger, Carlos; Kobourov, Stephen G.; Börner, Katy (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015)

  We investigate the memorability of data represented in two different visualization designs. In contrast to recent studies that examine which types of visual information make visualizations memorable, we examine the effect ...

• Feature-Driven Visual Analytics of Chaotic Parameter-Dependent Movement 

  Luboschik, Martin; Röhlig, Martin; Bittig, Arne T.; Andrienko, Natalia; Schumann, Heidrun; Tominski, Christian (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015)

  Analyzing movements in their spatial and temporal context is a complex task. We are additionally interested in understanding the movements' dependency on parameters that govern the processes behind the movement. We propose ...

• Visual Analytics for Correlation-Based Comparison of Time Series Ensembles 

  Köthur, Patrick; Witt, Carl; Sips, Mike; Marwan, Norbert; Schinkel, Stefan; Dransch, Doris (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015)

  An established approach to studying interrelations between two non-stationary time series is to compute the 'windowed' cross-correlation (WCC). The time series are divided into intervals and the cross-correlation between ...

• A Novel Framework for Visual Detection and Exploration of Performance Bottlenecks in Organic Photovoltaic Solar Cell Materials 

  Aboulhassan, Amal; Baum, Daniel; Wodo, Olga; Ganapathysubramanian, Baskar; Amassian, Aram; Hadwiger, Markus (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015)

  Current characterization methods of the so-called Bulk Heterojunction (BHJ), which is the main material of Organic Photovoltaic (OPV) solar cells, are limited to the analysis of global fabrication parameters. This reduces ...

• A Shot at Visual Vulnerability Analysis 

  Kerzner, Ethan; Butler, Lee A.; Hansen, Charles; Meyer, Miriah (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015)

  Increasing the safety of vehicles is an important goal for vehicle manufacturers. These manufacturers often turn to simulations to understand how to improve a vehicle's design as real-world safety tests are expensive and ...

• Visual Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Data: Applications in Weather Forecasting 

  Diehl, Alexandra; Pelorosso, Leandro; Delrieux, Claudio; Saulo, Celeste; Ruiz, Juan; Gröller, M. Eduard; Bruckner, Stefan (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015)

  Weather conditions affect multiple aspects of human life such as economy, safety, security, and social activities. For this reason, weather forecast plays a major role in society. Currently weather forecasts are based on ...

• Mosaic Drawings and Cartograms 

  Cano, Rafael G.; Buchin, Kevin; Castermans, Thom; Pieterse, Astrid; Sonke, Willem; Speckmann, Bettina (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015)

  Cartograms visualize quantitative data about a set of regions such as countries or states. There are several different types of cartograms and - for some - algorithms to automatically construct them exist. We focus on ...

• Quantitative Measures for Cartogram Generation Techniques 

  Alam, Md. Jawaherul; Kobourov, Stephen G.; Veeramoni, Sankar (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015)

  Cartograms are used to visualize geographically distributed data by scaling the regions of a map (e.g., US states) such that their areas are proportional to some data associated with them (e.g., population). Thus the ...

• Visualizing Time-Specific Hurricane Predictions, with Uncertainty, from Storm Path Ensembles 

  Liu, Le; Mirzargar, Mahsa; Kirby, Robert M.; Whitaker, Ross; House, Donald H. (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015)

  The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) issues advisories every six hours during the life of a hurricane. These advisories describe the current state of the storm, and its predicted path, size, and wind speed over the ...

• VIMTEX: A Visualization Interface for Multivariate, Time-Varying, Geological Data Exploration 

  Dasgupta, Aritra; Kosara, Robert; Gosink, Luke (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015)

  Observing interactions among chemical species and microorganisms in the earth's sub-surface is a common task in the field of geology. Bioremediation experiments constitute one such class of interactions which focus on ...

• Visualization of Object-Centered Vulnerability to Possible Flood Hazards 

  Cornel, Daniel; Konev, Artem; Sadransky, Bernhard; Horvath, Zsolt; Gröller, Eduard; Waser, Jürgen (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015)

  As flood events tend to happen more frequently, there is a growing demand for understanding the vulnerability of infrastructure to flood-related hazards. Such demand exists both for flood management personnel and the general ...

• Detangler: Visual Analytics for Multiplex Networks 

  Renoust, Benjamin; Melancon, Guy; Munzner, Tamara (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015)

  A multiplex network has links of different types, allowing it to express many overlapping types of relationships. A core task in network analysis is to evaluate and understand group cohesion; that is, to explain why groups ...

• Dual Adjacency Matrix: Exploring Link Groups in Dense Networks 

  Dinkla, Kasper; Henry-Riche, Nathalie; Westenberg, Michel A. (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015)

  Node grouping is a common way of adding structure and information to networks that aids their interpretation. However, certain networks benefit from the grouping of links instead of nodes. Link communities, for example, ...

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