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Title: Visualization and Structuring of Bibliographic Recommendations
Author: McQuaigue, Matthew
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: This study analyzes methods to structure and visualize bibliographic recommendations efficiently while conveying important information for users. Most of the work being developed in the realm of bibliography visualizations is surrounding the quest...

Title: Visual Analytics Approaches to Exploring Multivariate Time Series Data
Author: Feng, Tinghao
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Time-oriented data analysis has attracted the attention of researchers for decades, across many research domains, including but not limited to medical records, business, science, engineering, biographies, history, planning, and project management....

Title: VISUAL ANALYTICS TOOLS PROVIDING INSIGHTS INTO TENNIS MATCHES
Author: Polk, Thomas
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: In this dissertation, I present a series of visual analytics tools designed to provide insights into tennis matches for the purpose of player improvement. These include analytic tools that can be divided into two basic categories: non-spatial-base...

Title: VISUAL ANALYTICS IN HIGH-DIMENSIONAL DATA WITH DICHOTOMOUS OUTCOME
Author: Zhang, Chong
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: High-dimensional data becomes common in application areas such as environmental studies and healthcare. The high dimensionality presents opportunities for understanding how certain outcomes happen by identifying significant variables contributing ...

Title: Thinking interactively with visualization
Author: Chang, Remco
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Interaction is becoming an integral part of using visualization for analysis. When interaction is tightly and appropriately coupled with visualization, it can transform the visualization from displaying static imagery to assisting comprehensive an...

Title: The role of emotion in visualization
Author: Harrison, Lane
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: The popular notion that emotion and reason are incompatible is no longer defensible. Recent research in psychology and cognitive science has established emotion as a key element in numerous aspects of perception and cognition, including attention,...

Title: Tabletop Roleplaying Strucutre for SImulating Active-Shooter Events
Author: Hawkins, M
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Artificial intelligence, Cognitive psychology
Description: This research presents a structure based on tabletop roleplaying forcreating better computational models for simulating active-shooterevents. Active-shooter events involve one or more people activelytrying to kill others inside a populated and con...

Title: THE ROLE OF SYMBOL CLOSURE IN VISUAL ENCODING: FROM PERCEPTION TO VISUAL ANALYSIS OF SYNTHETIC AND REAL-WORLD DATA
Author: Burlinson, David
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Psychology
Description: Symbols and shapes are commonly employed to represent data in visualizations such as scatterplots. Practitioners, scientists, and automated visualization tools are reliant on empirical analyses of visual encoding strategies, taking into account th...

Title: Spectrum-based and Collaborative Network Topology Analysis and Visualization
Author: Hu, Xianlin
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Networks are of significant importance in many application domains, such as World WideWeb and social networks, which often embed rich topological information. Since network topology captures the organization of network nodes and links, studying ne...

Title: Proactive topology optimization and service restoration for improved distribution system outage management
Author: Mbanisi, Tumininu
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: It is estimated that close to 90% of outages in the electric power grid originate in the distribution system. Although the use of advanced metering infrastructure has increased situational awareness in the distribution system, current approaches t...

Title: OBJECT MANIPULATION TECHNIQUE DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION IN DESKTOP VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT
Author: Feng, Jinbo
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Object manipulation is one of the major operations in 3D graphical interaction. For existing high degree-of-freedom (DOF) manipulation techniques, most of them have shown to be more efficient or intuitive in their specific experiments. However, th...

Title: Mixed-reality squad-coordination platform
Author: Mahfoud, Elias
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Coordination and situation awareness are amongst the most important aspects of collaborative emergency response for firefighters, police, military soldiers, and so forth. Generally, command centers are in charge of managing a team, typically using...

Title: Measuring the Effects of Chart Embellishments to Better Understand our Perception of Charts
Author: Skau, Drew
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Cognitive psychology
Description: News organizations, non-profits, and even government agencies use information graphics to advertise and communicate their messages. Data visualizations are used heavily in these graphics, but they also often incorporate unusual design elements to ...

Title: Knowledge Visualization: From Theory To Practice
Author: Jeong, Dong Hyun
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: Visualizations have been known as efficient tools that can help users analyze complex data. However, understanding the displayed data and finding underlying knowledge is still difficult. In this work, a new approach is proposed based on understand...

Title: Integrated Facade Simulator: Dynamic Tool to Study The Impact of Solar Radiation on Human Facade Interaction
Author: Hosseinzadeh Zarrabi, Amir
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Scandinavian literature
Description: Today, people are spending more than 90% of their time indoors, that has a great influence on their well-being and visual and thermal satisfaction. In addition, the building sector, as a major urban infrastructure, consumes about 40% of global pro...

Title: Exploring the Visualization of Student Behavior in Interactive Learning Environments
Author: Johnson, Matthew
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: My research combines Interactive Learning Environments (ILE), Educational Data Mining (EDM) and Information Visualization (Info-Vis) to inform analysts, educators and researchers about user behavior in software, specifically in CBEs, which include...

Title: Experimental Evaluation of the Cognitive Effects of Travel Technique in Immersive Virtual Environments
Author: Suma, Evan
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Navigation is one of the most common and universal interaction tasks performed with 3D user interfaces, and different travel techniques can have a strong influence on a user's exploration and overall experience of a virtual environment. Real walki...

Title: EXPLORATORY VISUALIZATION OF GRAPHS BASED ON COMMUNITY STRUCTURE
Author: Liu, Yujie
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: Communities, also called clusters or modules, are groups of nodes which probably share common properties and/or play similar roles within a graph. They widely exist in real networks such as biological, social, and information networks. Allowing us...

Title: Do video games reduce or induce stress? The effect of challenge and threat appraisals on stress and aggression when playing violent and nonviolent video games
Author: Porter, Anne
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Video game players report using video games for stress reduction, but previous studies have found mixed results when examining stress and video games, and fail to comprehensively measure all relevant psychological, emotional, and physiological str...

Title: Designing better exergames: application of flow concepts and the FITT principle to full body exertion video games and flexible challenge systems
Author: Nickel, Andrea
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Exercise video games have a recognized potential for widespread use as tools for effective exercise. Current exergames do not consistently strike a successful balance between the "fun gameplay" and "effective exercise" aspects of the ideal exergam...