One Sentence This paper presents a design of calendar that encodes and embeds the information in symbolic visual elements which together form an ambient display to inform people of their calendar events, subscribed blogs, transit schedules, etc. More Sentences +…
Response to [Ambient displays: ...] by Wisneski et al.
GENERAL CITE This paper, back in 1998, proposed an idea called ‘ambient display’ where, as opposed to conventional GUI, researchers perceive the architectural space as the media for displaying information, mostly in a subtle and peripheral manner. The paper describes two…
Response to [Mapping Time, ...] by Richards
God made the days and nights but man made the Calendar. – Anon “In another meaning of the word, a calendar is an almanac, a program of future events or a record of past events, each assigned to a day…
A Mixed Sense of Temporal and Spatial Variations
The picture below was taken surrounding a spot on Sounio, Greece. I guess the idea was, the photographer fixed the camera on a spot, rotated it 360 degree in 24 hours and took a picture every 15 minutes (that is…
Response to [Between Aesthetics ...] by Skog et al.
GENERAL CITE This paper describes an example of designing an ambient information visualization that leverages the two factors: aesthetics and utility. The authors discussed the design of an informative art that also serves as a bus schedule located in a…
Response to [Bubble Sets ...] by Collins et al.
Given an existing visualization e.g. a tree, a map with representations of single data items, how can we secondly group these item according to another different rule? This paper answers this question. Firstly, the authors surveyed previous methods such as…
Response to [Toolglass and Magic Lenses ...] by Bier et al.
My understanding is that this paper provides a new (albeit as early as 1993) solution to the selection problem. Before this paper came out, for example, to change the color of a certain object, we have to click and select…
Visualizing Friendship on Facebook
An intern in Facebook did a really aesthetically pleasing visualization of friendships on Facebook. Not surprisingly, China is without ‘lighting’ points. But how about Russia? Looks like the largest country disappears in this visualization.
Response to [Casual Information...] by Pousman et al.
Card et al. coined visualization as the use of computer-supported, interactive, visual representation of data to amplify cognition. The premise of this paper is “Information visualization has often focused on providing deep insight for expert user populations and on techniques…
Response to [Spatiotemporal ...] by
Spatiotemporal analysis of sensor logs is a challenging research field due to three facts: a) traditional two-dimensional maps do not support multiple events to occur at the same spatial location, b) three-dimensional solutions introduce ambiguity and are hard to navigate, c) map…
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