@inproceedings{Burkhardt2013b,

title = {Visual Statistics Cockpits for Information Gathering in the Policy-Making Process},

author = {Dirk Burkhardt and Kawa Nazemi and Christian Stab and Martin Steiger and Arjan Kuijper and Jörn Kohlhammer},

editor = {George Bebis and Richard Boyle and Bahram Parvin and Darko Koracin and Baoxin Li and Fatih Porikli and Victor Zordan and James Klosowski and Sabine Coquillart and Xun Luo and Min Chen and David Gotz},

url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-41939-3_9, Springer link},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-41939-3_9},

isbn = {978-3-642-41939-3},

year  = {2013},

date = {2013-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC2013). Advances in Visual Computing.},

pages = {86--97},

publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},

address = {Berlin, Heidelberg},

series = {LNCS 8034},

abstract = {A major step in ICT-driven policy making is information gathering. During this phase, analysts and experts have to deal with a high number of statistical data which they use as a basis to identify problems and find appropriate solutions. This paper introduces a statistical data model to support these analysts and experts. It allows for handling the complexity (i.e. the dimensions) of the data for the visualizations. In particular, it helps to use the same data for two-dimensional, but also multi-dimensional statistics visualizations. Based on this statistic data model we introduce an interactive approach of visual statistics cockpits. This results in highly interactive statistics visualization cockpits that enable both analysts and experts to improve problem assessment and solution finding.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Burkhardt2012c,

title = {Interactive Exploration System: A User-Centered Interaction Approach in Semantics Visualizations},

author = {Dirk Burkhardt and Christian Stab and Martin Steiger and Matthias Breyer and Kawa Nazemi},

editor = {Arjan Kuijper and Alexei Sourin},

doi = {10.1109/CW.2012.45},

isbn = {978-0-7695-4814-2},

year  = {2012},

date = {2012-09-25},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Cyberworlds (Cyberworlds 2012)},

pages = {261--267},

publisher = {IEEE},

address = {Piscataway, NJ, USA},

abstract = {Nowadays a wide range of input devices are available to users of technical systems. Especially modern alternative interaction devices, which are known from game consoles etc., provide a more natural way of interaction. In parallel to that the research on visualization of large amount of data advances very quickly. This research was also influenced by the semantic web and the idea of storing data in a structured and linked form. The semantically annotated data gains more and more importance in information acquisition processes. Especially the Linked Open Data (LOD) format already experienced a huge growth. However, the user-interfaces of web-applications mostly do not reflect the added value of semantics data. This paper describes the conceptual design and implementation of an Interactive Exploration System that offers a user-centered graphical environment of web-based knowledge repositories, to support and optimize explorative learning, and the integration of a taxonomy-based approach to enable the use of more natural interaction metaphors, as they are possible with modern devices like Wii Mote or Microsoft Kinect. Therefore we introduce a different classification for interaction devices, and current approaches for supporting the added values in semantics visualizations. Furthermore, we describe the concept of our IES, including a strategy to organize and structure today's existing input devices, and a semantics exploration system driven by user-experience. We conclude the paper with a description of the implementation of the IES and an application scenario.},

keywords = {Multimodal Interaction, Semantic web, Semantics visualization, User-Centered Systems},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}