CMSC 436/636 Reading List

Last Updated: June, 2017

Unit 0 : Overview and Introduction to Visualization

Unit 1 : Foundations of Visualization

Unit 2 : Design and Validate

• David H. Laidlaw, Michael Kirby, Cullen Jackson, J. Scott Davidson, Timothy Miller, Marco DaSilva, William Warren, and Michael Tarr (2005). Comparing 2D vector field visualization methods: A user study. Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 11(1):59-70, January-February 2005.
• Jarke van Wijk (2005). The Value of Visualization. Visualization 2005, pp. 11-18.

Unit 3 : Map Metric Info

• Haleh Hagh-Shenas, Sunghee Kim, Victoria Interrante, Christopher Healey (2007), Weaving versus Blending: a quantitative assessment of information carrying capacities of two alternative methods for conveying multivariate data with color, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 1270-1277.
• Kristin Potter, Joe Kniss, Richard Riesenfeld, and Chris R. Johnson. Visualizing Summary Statistics and Uncertainty. In Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurovis 2010), Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 823-831, 2010.

Unit 4 : Arrange to Reveal Pattern

• Jarke van Wijk and Edward van Selow, Cluster and Calender based Visualization of Time Series Data. Proceedings of Information Visualization 99, pp.
• Fabian Bendix, Robert Kosara, Helwig Hauser (2005), Parallel Sets: Visual Analysis of Categorical Data, Proceedings of IEEE Information Visualization 2005, pp. 133-140.

Unit 5 : Interact and Analyze

• Martin Wattenberg (2005), Baby Names, Visualization, and Social Data Analysis, Proceedings of IEEE Information Visualization 2005, pp. 1-7.
• George G. Robertson, Roland Fernandez, Danyel Fisher, Bongshin Lee, and John T. Stasko: Effectiveness of Animation in Trend Visualization. IEEE TVCG (Proc. InfoVis 2008). 14(6): 1325-1332 (2008)

Unit 6 : Hot Topics and Research Challenges

• SciVis best paper: Karl Bladin, Emil Axelsson, Erik Broberg, Carter Emmart, Patric Ljung, Alexander Bock, Anders Ynnerman (2017), Globe Browsing: Contextualized Spatio-Temporal Planetary Surface Visualization, Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2017.
• InfoVis best paper: Danielle Albers Szafir (2017) Modeling Color Difference for Visualization Design, Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2017.
• VAST best paper: Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Daniel Smilkov, James Wexler, Jimbo Wilson, Dandelion Mané, Doug Fritz, Dilip Krishnan, Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg (2017), Visualizing Dataflow Graphs of Deep Learning Models in TensorFlow, Proceedings of VAST 2017.