GEMS 2.0 is a follow-up of the GEMS – Graph Exploration and Manipulation on interactive Surfaces project, which was carried out from November 2012 until February 2016. Similar to its predecessor, GEMS 2.0 is a cooperation between the Interactive Media Lab Dresden at the Technische Universität Dresden and the Chair of Computer Graphics (VC²G) at the University of Rostock.
Graphs are universally relevant in many application domains, such as communication, transportation, biology, and climatology. In these domains, there is an increasing demand for methods and tools that do not only support working with a graph’s structure, that is, its nodes and edges, but also with numerous data attributes that may be associated with the graph. Understanding such multivariate graphs comprehensively is a significant challenge for the people working with them.
Working with data usually means analyzing them. Interactive visual analysis has proved to be an effective mean to gain insight into data. Yet, there is more to working with graphs than understanding basic information of their structure and attributes. In this proposal, we plan to study how classic exploratory graph analysis can be advanced to include comparative analysis of multiple graphs and the possibility to directly edit a graph’s nodes and edges as well as its associated attributes when necessary.
Associated Publications
Currently, the following publications from the Interactive Media Lab Dresden are associated with the GEMS 2.0 project:
@inproceedings{Horak2018,
author = {Tom Horak and Sriram Karthik Badam and Niklas Elmqvist and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {When David Meets Goliath: Combining Smartwatches with a Large Vertical Display for Visual Data Exploration},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
year = {2018},
month = {4},
location = {Montreal, QC, Canada},
numpages = {13},
doi = {10.1145/3173574.3173593},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173593},
publisher = {ACM}
}
Demonstrating David Meets Goliath: Combining Smartwatches with a Large Vertical Display for Visual Data Exploration.
@inproceedings{Horak2018a,
author = {Tom Horak and Sriram Karthik Badam and Niklas Elmqvist and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {Demonstrating David Meets Goliath: Combining Smartwatches with a Large Vertical Display for Visual Data Exploration},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
series = {CHI EA '18},
year = {2018},
month = {4},
location = {Montreal, QC, Canada},
numpages = {3},
doi = {10.1145/3170427.3186497},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3186497},
publisher = {ACM}
}@inproceedings{Horak2018b,
author = {Tom Horak and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {Hierarchical Graphs on Mobile Devices: A Lane-based Approach},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the CHI 2018 Workshop on Data Visualization on Mobile Devices},
series = {MobileVis '18},
year = {2018},
month = {4},
location = {Montreal, QC, Canada},
numpages = {7}
}
@article{Langner:2018aa,
author = {Ricardo Langner and Tom Horak and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {VisTiles: Coordinating and Combining Co-located Mobile Devices for Visual Data Exploration},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
volume = {24},
issue = {1},
year = {2018},
month = {1},
location = {Phoenix, Arizona USA},
pages = {626--636},
numpages = {11},
doi = {10.1109/TVCG.2017.2744019},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2017.2744019},
publisher = {IEEE},
keywords = {collaboration, data visualization, mobile communication, prototypes, smart phones, visualization, mobile devices, coordinated \& multiple views, cross-device interaction, multi-display environment}
}@inproceedings{fixme,
author = {Tom Horak and Ulrike Kister and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {Improving Value Driver Trees to Enhance Business Data Analysis},
booktitle = {Poster Program of the 2017 IEEE VIS Conference},
year = {2017},
month = {10},
location = {Phoenix, Arizona, USA},
numpages = {2}
}
@article{Kister2017_grasp,
author = {Ulrike Kister and Konstantin Klamka and Christian Tominski and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {GraSp: Combining Spatially-aware Mobile Devices and a Display Wall for Graph Visualization and Interaction},
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum, 36},
volume = {36},
year = {2017},
month = {6},
isbn = {1467-8659},
pages = {503--514},
numpages = {9},
doi = {10.1111/cgf.13206},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13206}
}
Associated Student Theses
The following student theses from the Interactive Media Lab Dresden are associated with the GEMS 2.0 project:
Visual Data Exploration of Graphs with Cross-Device Workflows between a Large Display and Mobile Devices
Elisabeth Baudisch February 23rd, 2018 until July 27th, 2018
Supervision: Tom Horak, Ricardo Langner, Raimund Dachselt
Pointing Interaction with Mobile Devices Using Internal Sensors
Javid Abbasov October 2nd, 2017 until March 12th, 2018
Supervision: Tom Horak, Raimund Dachselt
Semi-automatic Editing of Elements and Layout in Multivariate Graph Visualization
Antonio Pietzsch December 15th, 2017 until March 2nd, 2018
Supervision: Tom Horak, Ulrike Kister, Raimund Dachselt
Performance Analysis and Optimization of Web-based Multivariate Graph Visualizations
Robin Thomas November 24th, 2017 until February 9th, 2018
Supervision: Tom Horak, Ulrike Kister, Raimund Dachselt