Design protocol analysis is a technique to understand designers’ cognitive processes by analyzing sequences of observations on their behavior. These observations typically use audio, video, and transcript data in order to gain insights into the designer's behavior and the design process. The recent availability of sophisticated sensing technology has made such data highly multimodal, requiring ...

We present an interactive system to create 3D models of objects of interest in their natural cluttered environments. A typical setting for 3D modeling of an object of interest involves capturing images from multiple views in a multi-camera studio with a mono-color screen or structured lighting. This is a tedious process and cannot be applied to a variety of objects. Moreover, general scene reco...

In this paper we present an approach to generate novel views from multiple images without known geometry at interactive framerates. Starting with a set of calibrated images, coarse depth information is computed for the images using a plane-sweep algorithm. During interactive rendering, the geometry approximation is used to guide the photo consistent reconstruction based on a tiled plane-sweep r...

In this paper we tackle the main problem presented by the majority of Information Visualization techniques, that is, the limited number of data items that can be visualized simultaneously. Our approach proposes an innovative and interactive systematization that can augment the potential for data presentation by utilizing multiple views. These multiple presentation views are kept linked accordin...

We propose a novel, interactive content-aware zooming operator that allows effective and efficient visualization of high resolution images on small screens, which may have different aspect ratios compared to the input images. Our approach applies an image retargeting method in order to fit an entire image into the limited screen space. This can provide global, but approximate views for lower zo...

In 3D terrain navigation applications, the views based on general perspective projection often find features of interest (FOIs) being occluded. As an alternative, panorama-like views preserve the similarity between 3D scenes before and after the deformations while ensuring the visibility of interested features. In this paper, an automatic method for generating panoramic map-like views is propos...

The UML is a collection of 13 diagram notations to describe different views of a software system. The existing diagram types display model elements and their relations. Software engineering is becoming more and more model-centric, such that software engineers start using UML models for more tasks than just describing the system. Tasks such as analysis or prediction of system properties require ...

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) use mechanisms inspired by biological evolution, e.g., natural selection, recombination, or mutation, that work on populations of solutions for a specific problem. These recurring processes produce a huge amount of time-varying data. In order to get a better insight into the progress of EAs, a Java-based visualization tool, called EAVis, was developed. The most imp...

Integration systems typically support only a limited set of queries over the schema they export. The reason is that the participating information sources contribute limited content and limited access methods. In prior work, this query set has often been described using a set of views. We describe the CLIDE interactive system, which extends the QBE-like query builder of Microsoft’s SQL Server wi...

In terms of sign systems and the way they are used, the experience of the interactive resembles nothing else so much as it resembles the experience of narrative. Narrative is best understood as a relationship between a Teller and a Listener, a relationship that is formal, moral and structural. The interactive reframes acts of narrative from re-counts and re-presentations towards simulation and ...