Exploring flow, factors, and outcomes of temporal event sequences with the outflow visualization

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2659-2668

  Wongsuphasawat, Krist ^a   Gotz, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

information visualization; Outflow; state diagram; state transition; temporal event sequences

Indexed keywords

EVENT SEQUENCE; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; OUTFLOW; STATE DIAGRAM; STATE TRANSITIONS;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MEDICAL COMPUTING;

AGGREGATES;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCCER; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCCER; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84867635578     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.225     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. W. Aigner, S. Miksch, B. Thurnher, and S. Biffl. PlanningLines: Novel Glyphs for Representing Temporal Uncertainties and Their Evaluation. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualization (IV), pages 457-463. IEEE, 2005. (Pubitemid 44458551)
2. P. André, M. L. Wilson, A. Russell, D. A. Smith, A. Owens, and M. Schraefel. Continuum: designing timelines for hierarchies, relationships and scale. Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), page 101, 2007.
3. R. Bade, S. Schlechtweg, and S. Miksch. Connecting time-oriented data and information to a coherent interactive visualization. In Proceedings of the Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pages 105-112. ACM, 2004.
4. J. Blaas, C. P. Botha, E. Grundy, M. W. Jones, R. S. Laramee, and F. H. Post. Smooth graphs for visual exploration of higher-order state transitions. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 15(6):969-76, 2009.
5. T. Booth. Sequential Machines and Automata Theory. John Wiley and Sons, New York, NY, USA, 1967.
6. M. Burch, F. Beck, and S. Diehl. Timeline trees: visualizing sequences of transactions in information hierarchies. In Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), pages 75-82, Napoli, Italy, 2008. ACM.
7. S. B. Cousins and M. G. Kahn. The visual display of temporal information. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 3(6):341-357, 1991.
8. G. Di Battista, P. Eades, R. Tamassia, and I. G. Tollis. Algorithms for drawing graphs: an annotated bibliography. Computational Geometry, 4(5):235-282, Oct. 1994.
9. J. Fails, A. Karlson, L. Shahamat, and B. Shneiderman. A Visual Interface for Multivariate Temporal Data: Finding Patterns of Events across Multiple Histories. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), volume 0, pages 167-174. IEEE, Oct. 2006. (Pubitemid 351245909)
10. M. Friendly. Visions and re-visions of Charles Joseph Minard. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 27(1):31-51, 2002.
11. B. L. Harrison, R. Owen, and R. M. Baecker. Timelines: an interactive system for the collection and visualization of temporal data. In Proceedings of Graphics Interface (GI), pages 141-141. Citeseer, 1994.
12. G. M. Karam. Visualization using timelines. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, pages 125-137. ACM, 1994.
13. R. Kosara, F. Bendix, and H. Hauser. Parallel sets: interactive exploration and visual analysis of categorical data. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 12(4):558-68, 2006. (Pubitemid 43824568)
14. P. A. McKee, W. P. Castelli, P. M. McNamara, and W. B. Kannel. The natural history of congestive heart failure: the Framingham study. The New England journal of medicine, 285(26):1441-6, Dec. 1971.
15. J. J. McMurray and M. A. Pfeffer. Heart failure. Lancet, 365(9474):1877- 1889, 2005. (Pubitemid 40744967)
16. P. Mui. Introducing Flow Visualization: visualizing visitor flow, 2011.
17. C. A. Petri. Communication with automata. Technical report, DTIC Research Report, 1966.
18. D. Phan, A. Paepcke, and T. Winograd. Progressive multiples for communication-minded visualization. In Proceedings of Graphics Interface (GI), page 225, New York, New York, USA, 2007. ACM.
19. D. Phan, L. Xiao, R. Yeh, P. Hanrahan, and T. Winograd. Flow map layout. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis), pages 219-224. IEEE, 2005. (Pubitemid 44500059)
20. C. Plaisant, R. Mushlin, A. Snyder, J. Li, D. Heller, and B. Shneiderman. LifeLines: using visualization to enhance navigation and analysis of patient records. In Proceedings of the AMIA Annual Symposium, pages 76-80. American Medical Informatics Association, 1998.
21. A. J. Pretorius and J. J. van Wijk. Visual analysis of multivariate state transition graphs. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 12(5):685-92, 2006. (Pubitemid 44955592)
22. A. J. Pretorius and J. J. van Wijk. Visual Inspection of Multivariate Graphs. Computer Graphics Forum, 27(3):967-974, May 2008.
23. P. Riehmann, M. Hanfler, and B. Froehlich. Interactive Sankey diagrams. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis), pages 233-240. IEEE, 2005. (Pubitemid 44500061)
24. G. Salton and C. Buckley. Term-weighting approaches in automatic text retrieval. Information Processing & Management, 24(5):513-523, 1988.
25. K. Sugiyama, S. Tagawa, and M. Toda. Methods for Visual Understanding of Hierarchical System Structures. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 11(2):109-125, 1981. (Pubitemid 11506064)
26. S. van den Elzen and J. J. vanWijk. BaobabView: Interactive construction and analysis of decision trees. In 2011 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), pages 151-160. Ieee, Oct. 2011.
27. F. van Ham, H. van De Wetering, and J. J. van Wijk. Interactive visualization of state transition systems. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 8(4):319-329, Oct. 2002. (Pubitemid 35421805)
28. K. Vrotsou, K. Ellegard, and M. Cooper. Everyday Life Discoveries: Mining and Visualizing Activity Patterns in Social Science Diary Data. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualization (IV), pages 130-138. IEEE, July 2007. (Pubitemid 47591728)
29. K. Vrotsou, J. Johansson, and M. Cooper. ActiviTree: interactive visual exploration of sequences in event-based data using graph similarity. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 15(6):945- 52, 2009.
30. T. D. Wang, C. Plaisant, A. J. Quinn, R. Stanchak, S. Murphy, and B. Shneiderman. Aligning temporal data by sentinel events: discovering patterns in electronic health records. In Proceedings of the Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pages 457-466. ACM, 2008.
31. M. Wattenberg. Visual exploration of multivariate graphs. In Proceedings of the Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), page 811. ACM, 2006.
32. K. Wongsuphasawat and D. Gotz. Outflow: Visualizing patient flow by symptoms and outcome. In IEEE VisWeek Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare, pages 25-28, 2011.
33. K. Wongsuphasawat, J. A. Guerra G'omez, C. Plaisant, T. D. Wang, M. Taieb-Maimon, and B. Shneiderman. LifeFlow: Visualizing an Overview of Event Sequences. In Proceedings of the Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pages 1747- 1756. ACM, 2011.
34. K. Wongsuphasawat, C. Plaisant, M. Taieb-Maimon, and B. Shneiderman. Querying Event Sequences by Exact Match or Similarity Search: Design and Empirical Evaluation. Interacting with computers, 24(2):55- 68, Mar. 2012.
35. K. Wongsuphasawat and B. Shneiderman. Finding comparable temporal categorical records: A similarity measure with an interactive visualization. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), pages 27-34. IEEE, Oct. 2009.