Social network based applications have experienced exponential growth in recent years.
One of the reasons for this rise is that this application domain offers a particularly fertile …

Rapidly growing virtual reality (VR) technologies and techniques have gained importance
over the past few years, and academics and practitioners have been searching for efficient …

Social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, plays a critical role in disaster management by
propagating emergency information to a disaster-affected community. It ranks as the fourth …

While there have been a dozen of authoring systems and programming toolkits for visual
design and development, users who do not have programming skills, such as data analysts …

Toolkit research plays an important role in the field of HCI, as it can heavily influence both
the design and implementation of interactive systems. For publication, the HCI community …

We present an overview of the last ten years of research on visualizations that support close
and distant reading of textual data in the digital humanities. We look at various works …

Today, in many spheres of human activity, massive amounts of data are collected and
stored. As the volumes of data available to lawmakers, civil servants, business people and …

Natural language interfaces (NLls) have shown great promise for visual data analysis,
allowing people to flexibly specify and interact with visualizations. However, develo** …

Abstract Information visualization (InfoVis), the study of transforming data, information, and
knowledge into interactive visual representations, is very important to users because it …

Visualization is the process of representing data, information, and knowledge in a visual
form to support the tasks of exploration, confirmation, presentation, and understanding. This …