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  Apr 19 - Apr 22
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  Apr 14 - Apr 17
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  Mar 02 - Mar 05
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  Apr 20 - Apr 23
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Programs

• Reception (Apr 19, 18:30~): Faculty Club
  We will take a walk altogether to the faculty club for about 20 mins.
• Banquet (Apr 20, 19:00~) : Diodia, El tower, 213, Gangnam-daero, Seocho-Gu, Seoul
  Buses will leave in front of Hoam Faculty House around 6:00 PM.
  Return buses will leave Diodia around 9:00 PM.

Workshops (PacificVAST) Schedules

• Day 2 David Ebert Purdue University "Changing the World with Visual Analytics"

• Day 3 Gerard Jounghyun Kim Korea University "Requirements and Recent Directions in Augmented Reality Visualization"

Graphs and Networks I

• Paper

  HoNVis: Visualizing and Exploring Higher-Order Networks

  Jun Tao, Jian Xu, Chaoli Wang, and Nitesh Chawla
• Paper

  Privacy Preserving Visualization for Social Network Data with Ontology Information

  Jia-Kai Chou, Chris Bryan, and Kwan-Liu Ma
• Note

  k-core based Multi-level Graph Visualization for Scale-free Networks

  Seokhee Hong and An Nguyen
• Note

  NetSet: A systematic integration of visualization for analyzing set intersections with network.

  Heungseok Park, Hongjun Lim, Wonjae Lee, and Kyungwon Lee
• Paper

  A Visual Analytics Approach for Understanding Egocentric Intimacy Network Evolution and Impact Propagation in MMORPGs

  Quan Li, Qiaomu Shen, Yao Ming, Peng Xu, Yun Wang, Xiaojuan Ma, and Huamin Qu

Immersion, VR, and Interaction

• Note

  A Study of Gesture Design for Graph Visualization in Virtual Reality Environments

  Yi-Jheng Huang, Takanori Fujiwara, Yun-Xuan Lin, Wen-Chieh Lin, and Kwan-Liu Ma
• Note

  A Design Space for Spatio-Data Coordination: Tangible Interaction Devices for Immersive Information Visualisation

  Maxime Cordeil, Benjamin Bach, Elliott Wilson, Yongchao Li, and Tim Dwyer
• Paper

  Evaluating Multi-User Selection for Exploring Graph Topology on Wall-Displays

  Arnaud Prouzeau, Anastasia Bezerianos, and Olivier Chapuis
• Paper

  Virtual Retractor: An Interactive Data Exploration System Using Physically Based Deformation

  Cheng Li, Xin Tong, and Han-Wei Shen
• Paper

  Interaction+: Interaction Enhancement for Web-based Visualizations

  Min Lu, Jie Liang, Yu Zhang, Guozheng Li, Siming Chen, Zongru Li, and Xiaoru Yuan

Geospatial Visualization and Applications

• Paper

  In Situ Magnetic Flux Vortex Visualization in Time-Dependent Ginzburg-Landau Superconductor Simulations

  Hanqi Guo, Tom Peterka, and Andreas Glatz
• Paper

  Designing Interactive Distance Cartograms to Support Urban Travelers

  Sungsoo (Ray) Hong, Rafal Kocielnik, Min-Joon Yoo, Sarah Battersby, Juho Kim, and Cecilia Aragon
• Paper

  MobiSeg: Interactive Region Segmentation Using Heterogeneous Mobility Data

  Wenchao Wu, Yixian Zheng, Nan Cao, Haipeng Zeng, Bing Ni, Huamin Qu, and Lionel M. Ni
• Paper

  Exploring the Evolution of Pressure Perturbations to Understand Atmospheric Phenomena

  Wathsala Widanagamaachchi, Alexander Jacques, Bei Wang, Erik Crosman, Peer-Timo Bremer, Valerio Pascucci, and John Horel

Multidimensional Data, Multifields, and Uncertainty

• Paper

  Homogeneity Guided Probabilistic Data Summaries for Analysis and Visualization of Large-Scale Data Sets

  Soumya Dutta, Jonathan Woodring, Han-Wei Shen, Jen-Ping Chen, and James Ahrens
• Paper

  Efficient Distribution based Feature Search in Multi-field Datasets

  Tzu-Hsuan Wei, Chun-Ming Chen, Jon Woodring, Huijie Zhang, and Han-Wei Shen
• Paper

  SwiftTuna: Responsive and Incremental Visual Exploration of Large-scale Multidimensional Data

  Jaemin Jo, Wonjae Kim, Seunghoon Yoo, Bohyoung Kim, and Jinwook Seo
• Paper

  Multivariate Volumetric Data Analysis and Visualization through Bottom-Up Subspace Exploration

  Kewei Lu and Han-Wei Shen
• Paper

  Range Likelihood Tree: A Compact and Effective Representation for Visual Exploration of Uncertain Data Sets

  Wenbin He, Xiaotong Liu, Han-Wei Shen, Scott Collis, and Jonathan Helmus

Volume Visualization

• Paper

  Spatio-temporal Feature Exploration in Combined Particle/Volume Reference Frames

  Franz Sauer and Kwan-Liu Ma
• Paper

  Statistical Visualization and Analysis of Large Data Using a Value-based Spatial Distribution

  Ko-Chih Wang, Kewei Lu, Tzu-Hsuan Wei, Naeem Shareef, and Han-Wei Shen
• Paper

  Transfer Function Design Toolbox for Full-Color Volume Datasets

  Martin Falk, Ingrid Hotz, Patric Ljung, Darren Treanor, Anders Ynnerman, and Claes Lundstrﾃｶm
• Note

  Efficient GPU-Accelerated Computation of Isosurface Similarity Maps

  Martin Imre, Jun Tao, and Chaoli Wang
• Note

  Using Interactive Particle-based Rendering to Visualize a Large-scale Time-varying Unstructured Volume with Mixed Cell Types

  Kun Zhao, Naohisa Sakamoto, and Koji Koyamada

Graphs and Networks II

• Paper

  FFTEB: Edge Bundling of Huge Graphs by the Fast Fourier Transform

  Antoine LHUILLIER, Christophe HURTER, and Alexandru TELEA
• Paper

  Visualizing the Uncertainty Induced by Graph Layout Algorithms

  Kai Yan and Weiwei Cui
• Paper

  Proxy Graph: Visual Quality Metrics of Big Graph Sampling

  Quan Nguyen, Seok-Hee Hong, Peter Eades, and Amyra Meidiana
• Note

  CactusTree: A Tree Drawing Approach for Hierarchical Edge Bundling

  Tommy Dang and Angus Forbes
• Note

  Quasi-biclique Edge Concentration: A Visual Analytics Method for Biclustering

  Yosuke Onoue and Koji KOYAMADA

Text, Annotation, and Coding

• Paper

  Aeonium: Visual Analytics to Support Collaborative Qualitative Coding

  Margaret Drouhard, Nan-Chen Chen, Jina Suh, Rafal Kocielnik, Vanessa Peﾃｱa-Araya, Keting Cen, Xiangyi Zheng, and Cecilia R. Aragon
• Paper

  ChartAccent: Annotation for Data-Driven Storytelling

  Donghao Ren, Matthew Brehmer, Bongshin Lee, Tobias Hﾃｶllerer, and Eun Kyoung Choe
• Paper

  Exploring Controversy via Sentiment Divergences of Aspects in Reviews

  Jin Xu, Yubo Tao, Hai Lin, Rongjie Zhu, and Yuyu Yan
• Paper

  Word-Sized Graphics for Scientific Texts

  Fabian Beck and Daniel Weiskopf

Medical, Biological, and Archaeological Visualization

• Paper

  Placenta Maps: In Utero Placental Health Assessment of the Human Fetus

  Haichao Miao, Gabriel Mistelbauer, Alexey Karimov, Amir Alansary, Mellisa Damodaram, Joseph V. Hajnal, Mary Rutherford, Bernhard Preim, Bernhard Kainz, and M. Eduard Groeller
• Paper

  A Visual Analytics System for Brain Functional Connectivity Comparison across Individuals, Groups, and Time Points

  Takanori Fujiwara, Jia-Kai Chou, Andrew McCullough, Charan Ranganath, and Kwan-Liu Ma
• Note

  DrugPathSeeker: Interactive UI for Exploring Drug-ADR Relation via Pathways

  Janu Verma, Heng Luo, Jianying Hu, and Ping Zhang
• Note

  BioLinker: Bottom-up Exploration of Protein Interaction Networks

  Tommy Dang, Paul Murray, and Angus Forbes
• Note

  Interactive Visualization of Assembly Instruction for Stone Tools Restoration

  Xi Yang, Katsutsugu Matsuyama, and Kouichi Konno
• Note

  Implicit Sphere Shadow Maps

  Michael Krone, Guido Reina, Sebastian Zahn, Tina Tremel, Carsten Bahnmﾃδｼller, and Thomas Ertl

Perception, Quality, and Scalability

• Paper

  Towards Perceptual Optimization of the Visual Design of Scatterplots

  Luana Micallef, Gregorio Palmas, Antti Oulasvirta, and Tino Weinkauf
• Paper

  Compression and Shifting to Reduce Occlusion in Multiple Short Time Series

  Maxime Dumas, Michael McGuffin, and Patrick Chassﾃｩ
• Note

  dNNG: Quality Metrics and Layout for Neighbourhood Faithfulness

  Quan Nguyen, Seokhee Hong, and Peter Eades
• Paper

  Radial Contour Labeling with Straight Leaders

  Benjamin Niedermann, Martin Nﾃｶllenburg, and Ignaz Rutter
• Note

  Making Many-to-Many Parallel Coordinate Plots Scalable by Asymmetric Biclustering

  Hsiang-Yun Wu, Yusuke Niibe, Kazuho Watanabe, Shigeo Takahashi, Makoto Uemura, and Issei Fujishiro

• Poster

  Dynamic Load Balancing Based on Constrained K-D Tree Decomposition for Parallel Particle Tracing

  Jiang Zhang, Hanqi Guo, Tom Peterka, and Xiaoru Yuan
• Poster

  GraphLDA: Latent Dirichlet Allocation-based Visual Exploration of Dynamic Graphs

  Lijing Lin, Siming Chen, Fan Hong, Chufan Lai, Shuai Chen, and Xiaoru Yuan
• Poster

  Classification and Visualization for Symbolic People Flow Data Preserving Way Points and Staying Times

  Yuri Miyagi, Masaki Onishi, Chiemi Watanabe, Takayuki Itoh, and Masahiro Takatsuka
• Poster

  Volume Rendering on Vector Machines

  Nobuaki Ohno and Wei Zhang
• Poster

  Dougong Bracket Sets Shape Grammars

  Tai-Chen Chou, Tung-Ju Hsieh, and Pei-Ying Chiang
• Poster

  Outlier Identification of Plantar Pressure Data

  Chen-Hsiang Liao and Tung-Ju Hsieh
• Poster

  Abstractocyte: A Visual Tool for Exploring Nanoscale Astroglial Cell Morphology

  Haneen Mohammed, Ali Al-Awami, Johanna Beyer, Corrado Cali, Pierre Magistretti, Hanspeter Pfister, and Markus Hadwiger
• Poster

  Multilevel Visual Analysis of Multivariate Radio Signal Data

  chufan lai, Lu Feng, and Xiaoru Yuan
• Poster

  Decoupling Ensemble Data Using Subspaces

  Fan Hong, Xiaoru Yuan, Alex Pang, Chufan Lai, Brad Hollister, Xiaoguang Ma, and Pierre Lermusiaux
• Poster

  SignalTreeExplorer: A Multi-Tree Comparison System for Visually Exploring Time Sequential Communication Data

  Guozheng Li, Yu Zhang, Siming Chen, Haocheng Zhang, Jie Liang, Xiaoju Dong, jinsong wang, and Xiaoru Yuan
• Poster

  ViStream : Distributed Streaming Framework using Vivaldi

  Woohyuk Choi, Jungmin Moon, and Won-Ki Jeong
• Poster

  Multidirectional Flow Visualization Methodology

  Seongmin Jeong, Seokyeon Kim, and Yun Jang
• Poster

  Visualization of the Forever 27 Club

  Suchismita Naik
• Poster

  TimeTubes: Visual Fusion for Ameliorating Uncertainty of Blazar Datasets from Different Observatories

  Naoko Sawada, Masanori Nakayama, Hsing-Yun Wu, Makoto Uemura, and Issei Fujishiro
• Poster

  Development of a Visual Analytics System for Structural Equation Modeling

  Yoshihiro Ashida, Kozen Umezawa, Yosuke Onoue, and Koji Koyamada
• Poster

  Layer Hierachization in Multiplex Networks for Word Cloud Visualization

  Benjamin Renoust, Haolin Ren, Guy Melancon, and Marie-luce Viaud
• Poster

  Node-link Graphs of Human Brain Network based on Dynamical Causal Modeling for Magnetoencephalography

  Hiroaki NATSUKAWA and Koji KOYAMADA
• Poster

  Insight Provenance In Learning

  Kuatbek Mukabak, Meirambek Omyrzak, and Sungahn Ko

• Contest

  The Birth of a Virtual Cell

  Peter Mindek, Johannes Sorger, Tobias Klein, David Kouřil, Daniel Toloudis, Gregory R. Johnson, Liya Ding, Graham Johnson, and Ivan Viola
• Contest

  Rescue Signatures in the Mediterranean

  Jeremy Boy, Katherine Hoffmann, Amanda Zerbe, Felicia Vacarelu, and Miguel Luengo-Oroz
• Contest

  Bullies and Victims: How Bullying Incidents Vary in Grades and How They are Reported

  Oh-Hyun Kwon, Jia-Kai Chou, and Kwan-Liu Ma

  

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• Contest

  The Rise and Fall of the Greater China's Economy

  Liuhuaying Yang and Zhengyan Yu
• Contest

  The New "Lipstick Effect" -- Hit Korean drama boosts sales of lipstick products

  FEI FANG and WEI ZHANG
• Contest

  How Wind Affects Air Pollution in Beijing?

  Ziping Xu and Haochuan Xu
• Contest

  Summarizing the U.S. Presidential Election Day 2016

  Chris Bryan, Keshav Dasu, Sravya Divakarla, and Kwan-Liu Ma

  

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• Contest

  Ferment and Counter Revolution: A Visual Storytelling for "Gauze Event" in Social Media

  Zhibang Jiang, Siming Chen, Shuai Chen, Yumiao Sun, and Xiaoru Yuan

• Workshop Keynote

  Emerging Topics in Visual Analytics

  Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis
• Workshop Keynote

  Telling Data-Driven Stories with Visualization

  Bongshin Lee, Microsoft Research

• Invited Talk

  Visual Analytics of Urban Data

  Yingcai Wu, Zhejiang University
• Invited Talk

  Eye Tracking for Visual Analytics and Visual Analytics for Eye Tracking

  Daniel Weiskopf, Stuttgart University

• Invited Talk

  Social Media Visual Analytics

  Xiaoru Yuan, Peking University
• Invited Talk

  New Quality Metrics for Graph Visualisation

  Seok-Hee Hong, University of Sydney