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Evolving Visualizations

Contrary to the typical trial and error approach, our visualization synthesis techniques position developers and scientists closer to an acceptable visualization by using rules obtained from our experimentation. We use a genetic algorithm to evolve visualizations from randomized visual representations of data to acceptable, in designers and scientisits terms, visual displays.

Project status: Active

Publications

Acevedo, D., Jackson, C., Laidlaw, D. H., and Drury, F. Using Visual Design Expertise to Characterize the Effectiveness of 2D Scientific Visualization Methods, Oct. 2005. [ pdf ]

House, D., Interrante, V., Laidlaw, D. H., Taylor, R., and Ware, C. Panel: Design and Evaluation in Visualization Research. In Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference (Minneapolis, MN, Oct. 2005), p. 117. [ pdf ]

Gaither, K., Geisler, B., Laidlaw, D. H., and Ebert, D. Panel: In the Eye of the Beholder: The Role of Perception in Scientific Visualization. In Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference (Oct. 2004), pp. 567-568. [ pdf ]

Kosara, R., Healey, C. G., Interrante, V., Laidlaw, D. H., and Ware, C. User Studies: Why, How, and When. Computer Graphics and Applications 23, 4 (July 2003), 20-25.

Jackson, C., Acevedo, D., Laidlaw, D. H., Drury, F., Vote, E., and Keefe, D. Designer-critiqued Comparison of 2D Vector Visualization Methods: A Pilot Study. In Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference, Sketches and Applications (SIGGRAPH 03) (2003), ACM SIGGRAPH. [ pdf ]

Rhyne, T.-M., Tory, M., Munzner, T., Ward, M., Johnson, C., and Laidlaw, D. H. Panel Session: Information and Scientific Visualization: Separate but Equal or Happy Together at Last. In Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference (2003), pp. 619-621. [ pdf ]

Sobel, J. SciVL: A Descriptive Language for 2D Multivariate Scientific Visualization Synthesis. Master's thesis, Brown University, Department of Computer Science, 2003. [ pdf ]

Vote, E., Acevedo, D., Jackson, C., Sobel, J., and Laidlaw, D. H. Design-by-Example: A Schema for Designing Visualizations Using Examples from Art. In Proceedings of the Conference on Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Sketches and Applications (SIGGRAPH 2003) (2003), ACM SIGGRAPH. [ pdf ]

Turner, D., Woodhouse, I., and Laidlaw, D. H. A Synoptic Visualization of Fully Polarimetric SAR Data: an Annotated Example. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) (2002). [ pdf ]

Woodhouse, I., Turner, D., and Laidlaw, D. H. Improving the Visualization of Polarimetric Response in SAR Images: from Pixels to Images. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) (2002). [ pdf ]

Laidlaw, D. H., Kirby, M., Davidson, J. S., Miller, T., DaSilva, M., Warren, W., and Tarr, M. Quantitative Comparative Evaluation of 2D Vector Field Visualization Methods. In Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference (Oct. 2001), IEEE, pp. 143-150. [ pdf ]

Swan, J. E., Interrante, V., Laidlaw, D. H., Rhyne, T.-M., and Munzner, T. Visualization Needs More Visual Design! Sensory Design Issues as a Driving Problem for Visualization Research. In Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference (San Francisco, California, 1999), pp. 485-490. [ pdf ]

Laidlaw, D. H., davidkremers, Frankel, F., Interrante, V., and Banchoff, T. F. Panel: Art and Visualization: Oil and Water? In Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, Oct. 1998), pp. 507-509. [ pdf ]

Fleischer, K. W., Laidlaw, D. H., Currin, B. L., and Barr, A. H. Cellular Texture Generation. 239-248.

Upson, C., Jr., T. F., Kamins, D., Laidlaw, D. H., Schlegel, D., Vroom, J., Gurwitz, R., and van Dam, A. The Application Visualization System: A Computational Environment for Scientific Visualization. Computer Graphics and Applications 9, 4 (July 1989), 30-42. [ pdf ]