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Chro-Ring: a time-oriented visual approach to represent writer’s history

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Personal histories of ancient Chinese writers have attracted many people. This kind of information is always in the form of obscure texts and the multiple facets are interrelated, so learning personal history in a traditional way is time-consuming. Fortunately, information visualization technique can help us with the problem. To clearly present time-oriented information visually about a famous writer to users, we propose Chro-Ring, a visualization system for representing faceted temporal data. It is time-oriented and displays multiple facets of personal information using multiple visualization views with a delicate layout. We implemented it in a scenario and conducted a user study to evaluate its effectiveness.

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This paper is supported by Chinese Knowledge Centre for Engineering Science and Technology.

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    Yingzhen Zhu & Jiangqin Wu

  2. School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University, No. 1500 Shunhua Road, Jinan, China

    Jifang Yu

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Zhu, Y., Yu, J. & Wu, J. Chro-Ring: a time-oriented visual approach to represent writer’s history. Vis Comput 32, 1133–1149 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-016-1213-4

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