Information Visualization - Last updated 12-Oct-04

Timothy Cribbin, BSc (Hons), MSc.

Lecturer,
Department of Information Systems & Computing,
Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK. UB8 3PH.
01895 266046

Timothy.Cribbin@brunel.ac.uk
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VIVID Research Centre*

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My Publications

Morar, S. S., Macredie, R., & Cribbin, T. (2002). An Investigation of Visual Cues used to Create and Support Frames of Reference and Visual Search Tasks in Desktop Virtual Environments. Virtual Reality, 6(3), 140-150.

Chen, C., Cribbin, T., & Macredie, R. D. (2002). Effects of Spatial-Semantic Interfaces in Visual Information Retrieval: Three Experimental Studies (Library and Information Commission Research Report 137). London: Resource, The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries.

Chen, C., Cribbin, T., Kuljis, J., & Macredie, R. (2002). Footprints of Information Foragers: Behaviour Semantics of Visual Exploration. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 57(2), 139-163.

Chen, C., Cribbin, T., Morar, S. S., & Macredie, R. (2002). Visualizing and Tracking the Growth of Competing Paradigms: Two Case Studies. Journal for the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 53(8), 678-689.

Westerman, S. J., Cribbin, T., & Wilson, R. (2001). Virtual information space navigation: Evaluating the use of head tracking. Behaviour and Information Technology, 20(6), 419-426. More

Morar, S. S., Macredie, R., & Cribbin, T. (2001). Perceiving depth in desktop virtual environments: Effects of motion parallax and object placement. In the proceedings of the Eighth IFIP TC.13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2001, Tokyo, Japan.

Morar, S. S., Macredie, R. D., & Cribbin, T. (2001). A Study of the Relative Importance of Visual Cues in Desktop Virtual Environments. In the proceedings of HCI International 2001, New Orleans, USA.

Cribbin, T., & Chen, C. (2001, 5-10 August). A study of navigation strategies in spatial-semantic visualisations. In the proceedings of HCI International 2001, New Orleans, USA. More

Cribbin, T., & Chen, C. (2001, 9-13 July). Exploring Cognitive Issues in Visual Information Retrieval. In the proceedings of the Eighth IFIP TC.13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2001, Tokyo, Japan. More

Cribbin, T., & Chen, C. (2001, January 21-26). Visual-Spatial Exploration of Thematic Spaces: A Comparative Study of Three Visualisation Models. In the proceedings of Electronic Imaging 2001: Visual Data Exploration and Analysis VIII, San Jose, CA. More

Chen, C., & Cribbin, T. (2001). Visualising and animating visual information foraging in context. In the proceedings of HCI International 2001, New Orleans.

Westerman, S. J., & Cribbin, T. (2000). Cognitive ability and information retrieval: When less is more. Virtual Reality, 5(1), 1-7.

Westerman, S. J., & Cribbin, T. (2000). Mapping semantic information in virtual space: Dimensions, variance, and individual differences. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 53(5), 765-788.

Westerman, S. J., & Cribbin, T. (1999). Navigating Virtual Information Spaces: Individual Differences in Cognitive Maps. Paper presented at the UK Virtual Reality Special Interest Group Conference, Salford, England.

Cribbin, T., & Westerman, S. J. (1999, August 30-September 3). Spatial Data Management Systems: Mapping Semantic Distance. Paper presented at INTERACT 99, IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Cribbin, T. (1999, August 30-September 3). Spatial Data Management Systems: Human Factors Perspectives. Paper presented at INTERACT 99, IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Westerman, S. J., & Cribbin, T. (1998). Individual Differences in the Use of Depth Cues. Acta Psychologica, 99(3), 293-310.

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A little sample of other InfoVis work going on around the world...

Skupin, A. (2002). A cartographic approach to visualizing conference abstracts. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 22(1), 50-58. More

Kosara, R., Miksch, S., & Hauser, H. (2002). Focus+context taken literally. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 22(1), 22-29. More

Pirolli, P., Card, S., & Van Der Wege, M. (2001). Visual Information Foraging in a Focus+Context Visualization. Paper presented at CHI 2001, Seattle. More

Heo, M., & Hirtle, S. C. (2001). An Empirical Comparison of Visualization Tools to Assist Information Retrieval on the Web. Journal for the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 52(8), 666-675. More

Fabrikant, S. (2001). Evaluating the Usability of the Scale Metaphor for Querying Semantic Information Spaces. In D. R. Montello (Ed.), Spatial Information Theory: Foundations of Geographic Information Science. Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT '01) (Vol. 2205). Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag. More

Risden, K., Czerwinski, M. P., Munzner, T., & Cook, D. B. (2000). An initial examination of ease of use for 2D and 3D information visualizations of web content. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 53(5). More

Herman, I., Melançon, G., & Marshall, M. S. (2000). Graph Visualisation in Information Visualisation: a Survey. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 6(1), 24-44. More

Fabrikant, S. (2000). Spatialized browsing in large data archives. Transactions in GIS, 4(1), 65-78. More

Cockburn, A., & McKenzie, B. (2000, 4-8 September). An Evaluation of Cone Trees. Paper presented at People and Computers XV. Proceedings of the 2000 British Computer Society Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Sunderland, UK. More

Chen, C., & Yu, Y. (2000). Empirical studies of information visualization: a meta-analysis. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 53(5), 851-866.

Chen, C., Czerwinski, M., & Macredie, R. (2000). Individual Differences in Virtual Environments - Introduction and overview. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(6), 499-507.

Ando, R. K., Boguraev, B. K., Byrd, R. J., & Neff, M. S. (2000). Multi-document Summarization by Visualizing Topical Content. Paper presented at the ANLP/NAACL Workshop on Automatic Summarization.

Cugini, J., Laskowski, S., & Sebrechts, M. (1999?). Design of 3-D Visualization of Search Results: Evolution and Evaluation.

Wiss, U., & Carr, D. (1999). An empirical study of task support in 3D Information Visualisation. In the Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Information Visualization (IV1999), London, UK.

v. Wijk, J. J., & v. d. Wetering, H. (1999). Cushion Treemaps: Visualisation of Hierarchical Information. In the Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis '99), San Francisco, CA.

Terveen, L., Hill, W., & Amento, B. (1999). Constructing, organizing, and visualizing collections of topically related Web resources. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 6(1), 67-94.

Shaw, C., Kukla, J., Soboroff, I., Ebert, D., Nicholas, C., Zwa, A., Miller, E., & Roberts, D. A. (1999). Interactive volumetric information visualization for Document corpus management. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 2(2/3), 144-156.

Sebrechts, M., Vasilakis, J., Miller, M., Cugini, J., & Laskowski, S. (1999). Visualization of Search Results: A Comparative Evaluation of Text, 2D, and 3D Interfaces. In the Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, Berkeley, CA.

Rose, S. (1999). The Sunflower Visual Metaphor, a New Paradigm for Dimensional Compression. In the Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis '99), San Francisco, CA.

Rodden, K., Basalaj, W., Sinclair, D., & Wood, K. (1999). Evaluating a visualisation of image similarity as a tool for image browsing. In the Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, San Francisco. More

Crossley, M., Davies, N., McGrath, A., & al., e. (1999). The knowledge garden. BT Technology Journal, 17(1), 76-83. More

Chen, C., & Carr, L. (1999, 14-16 July). A Semantic-Centric Approach to Information Visualization. In the Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Information Visualization, London, UK.

Chen, C. (1999). Visualising Semantic Spaces and Author Co-Citation Networks in Digital Libraries. Information Processing & Management, 35(3), 401-420.

Swan, R., & Allan, J. (1998). Aspect Windows, 3-D Visualizations and indirect comparisons of Information Retrieval system. In the Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, Melbourne, Australia. More

Swan, R., Allan, J., & Byrd, D. (1998, April 18-23). Evaluating a Visual Retrieval Interface: AspInquery at TREC-6. Position paper for the CHI '98 Workshop on Innovation and Evaluation in Information Exploration Interface, Los Angeles, CA. More

Soboroff, I., Nicholas, C., Kukla, J., & Ebert, D. (1998, November 10-14). Visualizing document authorship using N-grams and Latent Semantic Indexing. In the Proceedings of the workshop on New paradigms in information visualization and manipulation, Las Vegas, NV.

Miller, N. E., Wong, P. C., Brewster, M., & Foote, H. (1998). TOPIC ISLANDS - A Wavelet Based Text Visualization System. Paper presented at IEEE Visualization '98. More

Herman, I., Delest, M., & Melancon, G. (1998). Tree Visualisation and Navigation Clues for Information Visualisation. Computer Graphics Forum, 17(2). More

Davidson, G., Hendrickson, B., Johnson, D., Meyers, C., & Wylie, B. (1998). Knowledge mining with VxInsight: Discovery through interaction. Journal Of Intelligent Information Systems, 11(3), 259-285. More

Chen, C. (1998). Generalised similarity analysis and pathfinder network scaling. Interacting with Computers, 10(2), 107-128.

Veerasamy, A., & Heikes, R. (1997, July 27-31). Effectiveness of a graphical display of retrieval results. Paper presented at SIGIR 97, Proceedings of the 20th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, Philadelphia, PA. More

Chen, C., & Czerwinski, M. (1997). Spatial ability and visual navigation: An empirical study. New Reviews of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 3, 67-89.

Shneiderman, B. (1996, September 3-6). The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations. Paper presented at the Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Visual Languages, Boulder, CO. More

Nowell, L. T., France, R. K., Hix, D., Heath, L. S., & Fox, E. A. (1996, August). Visualizing search results: some alternatives to query-document similarity. Paper presented at SIGIR '96, Zurich, Switzerland. More

Lamping, J., & Rao, R. (1996). The hyperbolic browser: a focus + context technique for visualizing large hierarchies. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 7(1), 33-55. More (similar paper)

Hascoet, M., & Plaisant, C. (1996). Where is Information Visualization Going? Paper presented at the 9th Annual Symposium for User Interface Software and Technology, Seattle, Washington.

Dubin, D. (1996). Structure in Document Browsing Spaces. Unpublished PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh. More

Chen, C., & Rada, R. (1996). Interacting with hypertext: A meta-analysis of experimental studies. Human-Computer Interaction, 11(12), 125-156.

Hearst, M. (1995). TileBars: Visualization of Term Distribution Information in Full Text Information Access. Paper presented at CHI 95. More

Campbell, I. (1995). Supporting information needs by ostensive definition in an adaptive information space. Paper presented at the MIRO '95, Electronic Workshops in Computing. More

Rennison, E. (1994, 2-4 November). Galaxy of news: an approach to visualizing and understanding expansive news landscapes. Paper presented at the ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, Marina del Rey, CA USA. More

Rekimoto, J., & Green, M. (1993, December 3). The Information Cube: Using transparency in 3D Information Visualisation. Paper presented at the Third Annual Workshop on Information Technologies & Systems (WITS'93). More

Chalmers, M., & Chitson, P. (1992, June 21 - 24). Bead: Explorations in Information Visualization. Paper presented at the Fifteenth Annual International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, Copenhagen Denmark. More

Mackinlay, J., Robertson, G., & Card, S. (1991). The Perspective Wall: Detail and Context smoothly integrated. Paper presented at the CHI '91: Human factors in computing systems conference proceedings on Reaching through technology, New Orleans, LA. More

Johnson, B., & Shneiderman, B. (1991). Treemaps: a space-filling approach to the visualization of hierarchical information structures. Paper presented at the 2nd International IEEE Visualization Conference, San Diego. More

Campagnoni, F. R., & Ehrlich, K. (1989). Information retrieval using a hypertext-based help system. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 7(3), 271-291. More

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