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International Symposium on Visual Computing

ISVC 2012: Advances in Visual Computing pp 668–677Cite as

Customizable Time-Oriented Visualizations

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Most commercial visualization tools support an easy and quick creation of conventional time-oriented visualizations such as line charts, but customization is limited. In contrast, some academic visualization tools and programming languages support the creation of some customizable time-oriented visualizations but it is time consuming and hard. To combine efficiency, the effort required to develop a visualization, andcustomizability, the ability to tailor a visualization, we developed time-oriented building blocks that address the specifics of time (e.g. linear vs. cyclic or point-based vs. interval-based) and consist of inner customizable parts (e.g. ticks). A combination of the time-oriented and other primitive graphical building blocks allowed the creation of several customizable advanced time-oriented visualizations. The appearance and behavior of the blocks are specified using spreadsheet-like formulas. We compared our approach with other popular visualization tools. Evaluation showed that our approach rates well in customizability.

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  1. IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

    Mohammad Amin Kuhail, Kostas Pandazo & Soren Lauesen

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Nevada, 89557, Reno, NV, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, 94035, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, 89512, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. Department of Computer Science, University of California at Irvine, 92697-3435, Irvine, CA, USA

    Charless Fowlkes

  6. Eastman Kodak Company, 14650-2102, Rochester, NY, USA

    Sen Wang

  7. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Colorado at Denver, 80217, Denver, CO, USA

    Min-Hyung Choi

  8. VRVis Zentrum für Virtual Reality and Visualisierung, 1220, Vienna, Austria

    Stephan Mantler

  9. California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, University of California,,, San Diego, 92093, La Jolla, CA, USA

    Jürgen Schulze

  10. KAUST Visualizatioin Core Lab., 23955-6900, Thurwal, Saudi Arabia

    Daniel Acevedo

  11. Stony Brook University, 11794-4400, NY, USA

    Klaus Mueller

  12. Argonne National Laboratory, 60439, IL, USA

    Michael Papka

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Kuhail, M.A., Pandazo, K., Lauesen, S. (2012). Customizable Time-Oriented Visualizations. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7432. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33191-6_66

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