@inproceedings{Nazemi2014b,

title = {Adaptive Visualization of Linked-Data},

author = {Kawa Nazemi and Dirk Burkhardt and Reimond Retz and Arjan Kuijper and Jörn Kohlhammer},

editor = {George Bebis and Richard Boyle and Bahram Parvin and Darko Koracin and Ryan McMahan and Jason Jerald and Hui Zhang and Steven M Drucker and Chandra Kambhamettu and Maha El Choubassi and Zhigang Deng and Mark Carlson},

url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-14364-4_84, Springer link},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-14364-4_84},

isbn = {978-3-319-14364-4},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-03-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2014). Advances in Visual Computing.},

pages = {872--883},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing},

address = {Cham},

series = {LNCS 8888},

abstract = {Adaptive visualizations reduces the required cognitive effort to comprehend interactive visual pictures and amplify cognition. Although the research on adaptive visualizations grew in the last years, the existing approaches do not consider the transformation pipeline from data to visual representation for a more efficient and effective adaptation. Further todays systems commonly require an initial training by experts from the field and are limited to adaptation based either on user behavior or on data characteristics. A combination of both is not proposed to our knowledge. This paper introduces an enhanced instantiation of our previously proposed model that combines both: involving different influencing factors for and adapting various levels of visual peculiarities, on content, visual layout, visual presentation, and visual interface. Based on data type and users’ behavior, our system adapts a set of applicable visualization types. Moreover, retinal variables of each visualization type are adapted to meet individual or canonical requirements on both, data types and users’ behavior. Our system does not require an initial expert modeling.},

keywords = {Adaptive information visualization, Adaptive user interfaces, Adaptive visualization, Data Analytics, Human Factors, Human-centered user interfaces, Human-computer interaction (HCI), Information visualization, Intelligent Systems, Interaction analysis, Interaction Design, personalization, reference model, Semantic visualization, Semantic web, User behavior, User modeling, User-centered design, Visual analytics},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{7038782,

title = {Visual explanation of government-data for policy making through open-data inclusion},

author = {Dirk Burkhardt and Kawa Nazemi and Wilhelm Retz and Jörn Kohlhammer},

url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7038782/, IEEE Xplore},

doi = {10.1109/ICITST.2014.7038782},

isbn = {978-1-908320-39-1},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-01-01},

booktitle = {The 9th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2014)},

pages = {83-89},

publisher = {IEEE},

abstract = {Commonly, data used in public authorities are statistical data about certain indicator. Such valid kind of data allows an objective observation about indicator developments over time. In case of a significant deviation from the normal indicator level, it is difficult to understand the reasons for upcoming problems. In our paper we present an approach that allows an enhanced information gathering through an improved information overview about the depending aspects to such an indicator by considering governmental data-sources that provide also other types of data than just statistics. Even more, our approach integrates a system that allows generating explanations for Open Government Data, especially to specific indicators, based on Linked-Open Data. This enables decision-makers to get hints for unexpected reasons of concrete problems that may influence an indicator.},

keywords = {eGovernance, Human Factors, Human-centered user interfaces, Human-computer interaction (HCI), Information visualization, Interaction Design, Policy modeling, Semantic visualization, User-centered design},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Nazemi2014,

title = {Adaptive Visualization of Social Media Data for Policy Modeling},

author = {Kawa Nazemi and Dirk Burkhardt and Wilhelm Retz and Jörn Kohlhammer},

editor = {George Bebis and Richard Boyle and Bahram Parvin and Darko Koracin and Ryan McMahan and Jason Jerald and Hui Zhang and Steven M Drucker and Chandra Kambhamettu and Maha El Choubassi and Zhigang Deng and Mark Carlson},

url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-14249-4_32, Springer link},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-14249-4_32},

isbn = {978-3-319-14249-4},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceeding of the International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2014). Advances in Visual Computing.},

pages = {333--344},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing},

address = {Cham},

series = {LNCS 8887},

abstract = {The visual analysis of social media data emerged a huge number of interactive visual representations that use different characteristics of the data to enable the process of information acquisition. The social data are used in the domain of policy modeling to gather information about citizens' demands, opinions, and requirements and help to decide about political policies. Although existing systems already provide a huge number of visual analysis tools, the search and exploration paradigm is not really clear. Furthermore, the systems commonly do not provide any kind of human centered adaptation for the different stakeholders involved in the policy making process. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach that investigates the exploration and search paradigm from two different perspectives and enables a visual adaptation to support the exploration and analysis process.},

keywords = {Adaptive information visualization, Adaptive user interfaces, Adaptive visualization, Data Analytics, Human Factors, Human-centered user interfaces, Human-computer interaction (HCI), Information visualization, Intelligent Systems, Interaction analysis, Interaction Design, personalization, Semantic visualization, Semantic web, User behavior, User Interactions, User Interface, User modeling, User-centered design, Visual analytics},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Nazemi2013,

title = {Adaptive Semantic Visualization for Bibliographic Entries},

author = {Kawa Nazemi and Reimond Retz and Jürgen Bernard and Jörn Kohlhammer and Dieter Fellner},

editor = {George Bebis and Richard Boyle and Bahram Parvin and Darko Koracin and Baoxin Li and Fatih Porikli and Victor Zordan and James Klosowski and Sabine Coquillart and Xun Luo and Min Chen and David Gotz},

url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-41939-3_2, Springer link},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-41939-3_2},

isbn = {978-3-642-41939-3},

year  = {2013},

date = {2013-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2013). Advances in Visual Computing.},

pages = {13--24},

publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},

address = {Berlin, Heidelberg},

series = {LNCS 8034},

abstract = {Adaptive visualizations aim to reduce the complexity of visual representations and convey information using interactive visualizations. Although the research on adaptive visualizations grew in the last years, the existing approaches do not make use of the variety of adaptable visual variables. Further the existing approaches often premises experts, who has to model the initial visualization design. In addition, current approaches either incorporate user behavior or data types. A combination of both is not proposed to our knowledge. This paper introduces the instantiation of our previously proposed model that combines both: involving different influencing factors for and adapting various levels of visual peculiarities, on visual layout and visual presentation in a multiple visualization environment. Based on data type and users’ behavior, our system adapts a set of applicable visualization types. Moreover, retinal variables of each visualization type are adapted to meet individual or canonic requirements on both, data types and users’ behavior. Our system does not require an initial expert modeling.},

keywords = {Adaptive information visualization, Adaptive user interfaces, Adaptive visualization, Data Analytics, Human Factors, Human-centered user interfaces, Human-computer interaction (HCI), Information visualization, Intelligent Systems, Interaction analysis, Interaction Design, personalization, Semantic visualization, Semantic web, User behavior, User Interactions, Visual analytics},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Burkhardt2012,

title = {Dynamic process support based on users' behavior},

author = {Dirk Burkhardt and Kawa Nazemi},

url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6402079/, IEEE Xplore},

doi = {10.1109/ICL.2012.6402079},

isbn = {978-1-4673-2425-0},

year  = {2012},

date = {2012-09-01},

booktitle = {15th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL)},

pages = {1-6},

abstract = {Nowadays there is a gap between the possibilities and the massively existing data on the one side and the user as main worker on the other side. In different scenarios e.g. search, exploration, analysis and policy-modeling a user has to deal with massive information, but for this work he usually gets a static designed system. So meanwhile data-driven work-processes are increasing in its complexity the support of the users who are working with these data is limited on basic features. Hence this paper describes a concept for a process-supporting approach, which includes relevant aspects of users' behaviors in support him to successfully finish also complex tasks. This will be achieved by a process-based guidance with an automatic tools selection for every process and activity on the one hand. And on the other hand the consideration of expert-level of a user to a single task and process. This expert-level will be classified during each task and process interaction and allow the automatically selection of optimal tools for a concrete task. In final the user gets for every task an automatically initialized user-interface with useful and required tools.},

keywords = {Human Factors, Human-centered user interfaces, Human-computer interaction (HCI), Interaction Design, Process Support, User-centered design},

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}

}

@inproceedings{6402080,

title = {Towards process-oriented Information Visualization for supporting users},

author = {Dirk Burkhardt and Tobias Ruppert and Kawa Nazemi},

url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6402080/?anchor=citations, IEEE Xplore},

doi = {10.1109/ICL.2012.6402080},

isbn = {978-1-4673-2427-4},

year  = {2012},

date = {2012-07-01},

booktitle = {15th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL)},

pages = {1-8},

publisher = {IEEE Press},

organization = { Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering IEEE},

abstract = {Nowadays daily office work consists of dealing with big numbers of data and data sources, and furthermore of working with complex computer programs. In consequence many users have problems to use such programs effective and efficient. In particular beginners have significant problems to use the programs correctly due to complex functionality and interaction options. To avoid this overload of the user, the Information Visualization community has recently developed some approaches that aim to support the users. Unfortunately, these approaches are limited to one special aspect, and sometimes they are just appropriate for one special task. Thus, in this paper we introduce a process-oriented user-supporting approach. It allows selecting adequate supporting techniques in correlation to a performed process and activity to guide the user and help him to solve his task. Furthermore, we show the benefits of designing programs and applications, which implement process definitions for the existing tasks to provide the user with better process orientation. This guides the user through difficult and complex processes.},

keywords = {Human Factors, Human-centered user interfaces, Information visualization, User Interface, User-centered design},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Burkhardt2011b,

title = {Facilitate Access to E-Knowledge for Adult People in Rural Areas},

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

editor = {I. Candel Torres and L. Gómez Chova and A. López Martínez},

url = {https://library.iated.org/view/BURKHARDT2011FAC, IATED Digital Library},

isbn = {978-84-615-3324-4},

year  = {2011},

date = {2011-11-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI2011).},

pages = {2050-2057},

publisher = {International Association of Technology, Education and Development },

address = {Madrid, Spain},

series = {4th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation},

abstract = {The today society especially in the western world is stamped by a lifelong learning. This matter results because of an increasing technology development primary in Information Communication Technologies (ICT). These technology developments have their reasons in creating new effective and efficient systems that allows a higher productivity or quality and decreases the production cost, which is necessary for a stable and healthy company. But the goal of these new technologies is also to provide more possibilities for the “normal” users, so that they for instance can easily and cheap get updated about the status of their family members or friends over the internet. So ICT allows a wide range of possibilities, also for providing education with these technologies. So in this connection ICT can contribute to achieving universal education worldwide, through transfer of education and training, and offering improved conditions for lifelong learning, encompassing adults that are not participating to the formal education process, and improving professional skills (UNESCO, 2009). And skills are today the main factor for wealth in a society. 

A modern established method to provide a flexible learning, especially for lifelong learning for adults, is learning over the internet. By this kind of eLearning it does not matter where a specific user or student lives or tries to learn, he only needs access to the internet and has with it access to a huge amount of information and eLearning materials. But in fact for this way of learning the user needs experiences in dealing with the internet and also with the learning platforms. Because of that fact often only younger students up to the age of ca. 30 years are able use the existing eLearning platforms in an efficient way. This young target group stands in opposition to the demographic effect that the average age of most of the European residents increases constantly. So it becomes to a national and European challenge to support also the middle-aged adults for holding them up-to-date educated. But to provide an advanced education for these adult people is difficult, because it can be very time consuming and expensive, if they are trained on the traditional way with courses and tutors or trainers. So another approach is useful, next to the traditional advanced education. 

In our paper we describe an approach to provide a facilitated access to eKnowledge and so to virtual learning. With the described approach we address especially older adults between the age of 30 and 40 to support them in advanced learning. This allows bringing them up-to-date, so that they can achieve a similar education level than younger once which e.g. coming from the university. For reducing the access barrier many aspects, next to the general strategy, have to be to regarded, e.g. usability and also user experience aspects to avoid that middle and older adults get overstrained, which results often that they dislike the entire online learning strategy. So these technical features need to be hidden or so far reduced and abstracted that also these kinds of adults will understand the usefulness. In this paper we also take care for such aspects and presenting a concept and implementation of an eLearning portal that is primary designed for supporting the needs and behaviours of middle-aged adults. The main contribution of this paper is the abstraction and reduction of learning functionalities, implemented in a well-known learning environment.},

keywords = {Adult learning, E-Learning, E-Learning environments, Exploratory learning, Human Factors, Human-centered user interfaces},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{10.1007/978-3-642-21753-1_55,

title = {SemaZoom: Semantics Exploration by Using a Layer-Based Focus and Context Metaphor},

author = {Dirk Burkhardt and Kawa Nazemi and Matthias Breyer and Christian Stab and Arjan Kuijper},

editor = {Masaaki Kurosu},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21753-1_55, DOI

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-21753-1_55, Springer page},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-21753-1_55},

isbn = {978-3-642-21753-1},

year  = {2011},

date = {2011-01-01},

booktitle = {Human Centered Design},

pages = {491--499},

publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},

address = {Berlin, Heidelberg},

series = {LNCS 6776},

abstract = {The Semantic Web is a powerful technology for organizing the data in our information based society. The collection and organization of information is an important step for showing important information to interested people. But the usage of such semantic-based data sources depends on effective and efficient information visualizations. Currently different kinds of visualizations in general and visualization metaphors do exist. Many of them are also applied for semantic data source, but often they are designed for semantic web experts and neglecting the normal user and his perception of an easy useable visualization. This kind of user needs less information, but rather a reduced qualitative view on the data. These two aspects of large amount of existing data and one for normal users easy to understand visualization is often not reconcilable. In this paper we create a concept for a visualization to show a bigger set of information to such normal users without overstraining them, because of layer-based data visualization, next to an integration of a Focus and Context metaphor.},

keywords = {Graph visualization, Human-centered user interfaces, Human-computer interaction (HCI), Information visualization, User behavior, User Interactions, User Interface, User interfaces, User-centered design, Visual analytics},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Stab2011,

title = {Interacting with Semantics and Time},

author = {Christian Stab and Kawa Nazemi and Matthias Breyer and Dirk Burkhardt and Arjan Kuijper},

editor = {Julie A Jacko},

url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-21619-0_64, Springer link

},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-21619-0_64},

isbn = {978-3-642-21619-0},

year  = {2011},

date = {2011-01-01},

booktitle = {Human-Computer Interaction. Users and Applications. Proceedings of HCI International 2011},

volume = {4},

pages = {520--529},

publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},

address = {Berlin, Heidelberg},

series = {LNCS 6764},

abstract = {Time appears in many different semantic information systems like historical databases, multimedia systems or social communities as a common attribute. Beside the temporal information, the resources in these domains are categorized in a domain-specific schema and interconnected by semantic relations. Nevertheless, the high potential of these systems is not yet exhausted completely. Even today most of these knowledge systems present time-dependent semantic knowledge in textual form, what makes it difficult for the average user to understand temporal structures and dependencies. For bridging this gap between human and computer and for simplifying the exploration of time-dependent semantic knowledge, we developed a new interactive timeline visualization called SemaTime. The new designed temporal navigation concept offers an intuitive way for exploring and filtering time-depended resources. Additionally SemaTime offers navigation and visual filtering methods on the conceptual layer of the domain and is able to depict semantic relations. In this paper we describe the conceptual design of SemaTime and illustrate its application potentials in semantic search environments.},

keywords = {Data Analytics, Human Factors, Human-centered user interfaces, Information visualization, Ontology visualization, Semantic visualization, Semantic web, Temporal Visualization, User behavior},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Nazemi2011c,

title = {Interacting with Semantics: A User-Centered Visualization Adaptation Based on Semantics Data},

author = {Kawa Nazemi and Matthias Breyer and Jeanette Forster and Dirk Burkhardt and Arjan Kuijper},

editor = {Michael J. Smith and Gavriel Salvendy},

url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-21793-7_28, Springer link

},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-21793-7_28},

isbn = {978-3-642-21793-7},

year  = {2011},

date = {2011-01-01},

booktitle = {Human Interface and the Management of Information. Interacting with Information. Symposium on Human Interface 2011.},

pages = {239--248},

publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},

address = {Berlin, Heidelberg},

series = {LNCS 6771},

abstract = {Semantically annotated data gain more and more importance in future information acquiring processes. Especially the Linked Open Data (LOD) format has already experienced a great growth. However, the user-interfaces of web-applications mostly do not reflect the added value of semantics data. The following paper describes a new approach of user-centered data-adaptive semantics visualization, which makes use of the advantages of semantics data combined with an adaptive composition of information visualization techniques. It starts with a related work section, where existing LOD systems and information visualization techniques are described. After that, the new approach will bridge the gap between semantically annotated data (LOD) and information visualization and introduces a visualization system that adapts the composition of visualizations based on the underlying data structure. A case study of an example case will conclude this paper.},

keywords = {Human-centered user interfaces, Human-computer interaction (HCI), Information visualization, Interaction Design, Semantic visualization, Semantic web, User behavior, User Interactions},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Burk2011c,

title = {Classifying Interaction Methods to Support Intuitive Interaction Devices for Creating User-Centered-Systems},

author = {Dirk Burkhardt and Matthias Breyer and Christian Glaser and Kawa Nazemi and Arjan Kuijper},

editor = {Constantine Stephanidis},

url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-21672-5_3, Springer link},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-21672-5_3},

isbn = {978-3-642-21672-8},

year  = {2011},

date = {2011-01-01},

pages = {20--29},

publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},

address = {Berlin, Heidelberg},

series = {LNCS 6765},

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. But the support in computer programs is currently a big challenge, because a high effort is to invest for developing an application that supports such alternative input devices. For this fact we made a concept for an interaction system, which supports the use of alternative interaction devices. The interaction-system consists as central element a server, which provides a simple access interface for application to support such devices. It is also possible to address an abstract device by its properties and the interaction-system overtakes the converting from a concrete device. For realizing this idea, we also defined a taxonomy for classifying interaction devices by its interaction method and in dependence to the required interaction results, like recognized gestures. Later, by using this system, it is generally possible to develop a user-centered system by integrating this interaction-system, because an adequate integration of alternative interaction devices provides a more natural and easy to understand form of interaction.},

keywords = {Human Factors, Human-centered user interfaces, Human-computer interaction (HCI), Interaction Design, User behavior, User-centered design},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}