@inproceedings{10.1007/978-3-319-20612-7_4,

title = {Explorative Visualization of Impact Analysis for Policy Modeling by Bonding Open Government and Simulation Data},

author = {Dirk Burkhardt and Kawa Nazemi and Egils Ginters and Artis Aizstrauts and Jörn Kohlhammer},

editor = {Sakae Yamamoto},

url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-20612-7_4. Springer Link},

doi = {doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20612-7_4},

isbn = {978-3-319-20612-7},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-03-01},

booktitle = {International Conference on Human Interface and the Management of Information (HIMI 2015). Information and Knowledge Design.},

pages = {34--45},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing},

address = {Cham},

series = {LNCS 9172},

abstract = {Problem identification and solution finding are major challenges in policy modeling. Statistical indicator-data build the foundation for most of the required analysis work. In particular finding effective and efficient policies that solve an existing political problem is critical, since the forecast validation of the effectiveness is quite difficult. Simulation technologies can help to identify optimal policies for solutions, but nowadays many of such simulators are stand-alone technologies. In this paper we introduce a new visualization approach to enable the coupling of statistical indicator data from Open Government Data sources with simulators and especially simulation result data with the goal to provide an enhanced impact analysis for political analysts and decision makers. This allows, amongst others a more intuitive and effective way of solution finding.},

keywords = {Exploration, Semantics visualization, Simulation, User behavior, User Interactions, User Interface, User-centered design, Visual analytics},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Nazemi2014e,

title = {User Similarity and Deviation Analysis for Adaptive Visualizations},

author = {Kawa Nazemi and Wilhelm Retz and Jörn Kohlhammer and Arjan Kuijper},

editor = {Sakae Yamamoto},

url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-07731-4_7, Springer link},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-07731-4_7},

isbn = {978-3-319-07731-7},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-08-01},

booktitle = {International Conference on Human Interface and the Management of Information (HMI 2014). Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Knowledge Design and Evaluation.},

pages = {64--75},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing },

address = {Cham},

series = {LNCS 8521},

abstract = {Adaptive visualizations support users in information acquisition and exploration and therewith in human access of data. Their adaptation effect is often based on approaches that require the training by an expert. Further the effects often aims to support just the individual aptitudes. This paper introduces an approach for modeling a canonical user that makes the predefined training-files dispensable and enables an adaptation of visualizations for the majority of users. With the introduced user deviation algorithm, the behavior of individuals can be compared to the average user behavior represented in the canonical user model to identify behavioral anomalies. The further introduced similarity measurements allow to cluster similar deviated behavioral patterns as groups and provide them effective visual adaptations.},

keywords = {Adaptive information visualization, Adaptive user interfaces, Adaptive visualization, Data Analytics, reference model, Semantic visualization, Semantics visualization, User behavior, User Interactions, User Interface, User modeling, User-centered design, Visual analytics},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Nazemi:2014:MCR:2637748.2638416,

title = {Measuring Context Relevance for Adaptive Semantics Visualizations},

author = {Kawa Nazemi and Arjan Kuijper and Marco Hutter and Jörn Kohlhammer and Dieter W Fellner},

url = {https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2637748.2638416, ACM DL},

doi = {10.1145/2637748.2638416},

isbn = {978-1-4503-2769-5},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-driven Business},

pages = {14:1--14:8},

publisher = {ACM},

address = {Graz, Austria},

series = {i-KNOW '14},

abstract = {Semantics visualizations enable the acquisition of information to amplify the acquisition of knowledge. The dramatic increase of semantics in form of Linked Data and Linked-Open Data yield search databases that allow to visualize the entire context of search results. The visualization of this semantic context enables one to gather more information at once, but the complex structures may as well confuse and frustrate users. To overcome the problems, adaptive visualizations already provide some useful methods to adapt the visualization on users' demands and skills. Although these methods are very promising, these systems do not investigate the relevance of semantic neighboring entities that commonly build most information value. We introduce two new measurements for the relevance of neighboring entities: The Inverse Instance Frequency allows weighting the relevance of semantic concepts based on the number of their instances. The Direct Relation Frequency inverse Relations Frequency measures the relevance of neighboring instances by the type of semantic relations. Both measurements provide a weighting of neighboring entities of a selected semantic instance, and enable an adaptation of retinal variables for the visualized graph. The algorithms can easily be integrated into adaptive visualizations and enhance them with the relevance measurement of neighboring semantic entities. We give a detailed description of the algorithms to enable a replication for the adaptive and semantics visualization community. With our method, one can now easily derive the relevance of neighboring semantic entities of selected instances, and thus gain more information at once, without confusing and frustrating users.},

note = {Honourable Mention},

keywords = {Adaptive information visualization, Adaptive user interfaces, Adaptive visualization, Data Analytics, data weighting, Information retrieval, semantic processing, Semantic web, Semantics visualization, User Interface, User modeling, Visual analytics},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{6337431,

title = {Interactive Exploration System: A User-Centered Interaction Approach in Semantics Visualizations},

author = {Dirk Burkhardt and Christian Stab and Martin Steiger and Matthias Breyer and Kawa Nazemi},

doi = {10.1109/CW.2012.45},

isbn = {978-1-4673-2736-7},

year  = {2012},

date = {2012-09-01},

booktitle = {2012 International Conference on Cyberworlds},

pages = {261-267},

publisher = {IEEE},

abstract = {Nowadays a wide range of input devices are available to users of technical systems. Especially modern alternative interaction devices, which are known from game consoles etc., provide a more natural way of interaction. In parallel to that the research on visualization of large amount of data advances very quickly. This research was also influenced by the semantic web and the idea of storing data in a structured and linked form. The semantically annotated data gains more and more importance in information acquisition processes. Especially the Linked Open Data (LOD) format already experienced a huge growth. However, the user-interfaces of web-applications mostly do not reflect the added value of semantics data. This paper describes the conceptual design and implementation of an Interactive Exploration System that offers a user-centered graphical environment of web-based knowledge repositories, to support and optimize explorative learning, and the integration of a taxonomy-based approach to enable the use of more natural interaction metaphors, as they are possible with modern devices like Wii Mote or Microsoft Kinect. Therefore we introduce a different classification for interaction devices, and current approaches for supporting the added values in semantics visualizations. Furthermore, we describe the concept of our IES, including a strategy to organize and structure today's existing input devices, and a semantics exploration system driven by user-experience. We conclude the paper with a description of the implementation of the IES and an application scenario.},

keywords = {Human Factors, Human-centered user interfaces, Human-computer interaction (HCI), Information visualization, Interaction Design, Semantics visualization, User-centered design, Visual analytics},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}